Author Archives: jharrin4

Unknown's avatar

About jharrin4

Former mass communication/speech instructor at College of DuPage and Triton College in suburban Chicago. Army veteran of the Viet Nam era. Member of the Green Party USA

War Games

Saw the movie “Lone Survivor” the other day. Based on an actual event in 2005 involving a Seal team operation in Afghanistan. The mission was to find and “take out” a so-called high value target, but the mission went terribly … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Safety in Numbers

Another crazed shooter leaves 12 dead on a U.S.Navy facility in Washington, D.C. He had his own security clearance that got him through the gates–with his assault weapon in tow. I’ve been around long enough to recall when a mass … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Breaking News

George W. Bush had a stint implanted yesterday as treatment for some coronary artery blockage. Presidents present and past get top-notch health care. Few of them ever die before they are well into their 70s. Ronald Reagan made it to … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Orwell Lives!

Several days ago, the British publication The Guardian, busted the U.S. for its ongoing snooping of everyone’s phone calls. Some 29 year-old working for a private security firm as part of our government’s “war on terror” evidently couldn’t handle the … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

deja vu

I’m obviously not a prolific blogger. About once every month, starting in September 2010, I vent in this format; not that I don’t always have passionate opinions (personal and/or informed) on many events, stories, issues, some of which are new, … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Open For Business

Ok. I hate to say I told you so but, well, I told you so! About what? That post Newtown and its slaughter of 21 primary grade kiddies and five adults–by way of a lunatic with an automatic weapon–would not … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Paid to be Stupid

In an alarming and laughably inane bit of knee-jerk, 21st century political correctness and being out-of-touch with reality, a higher-up in Chicago Public Schools administration last week issued a edict to ban the teaching/reading of Majane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis in high … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

You.Click.Nada.Boom!

Here’s one more entry relating to a few of my other gun control issue posts: since the Colorado shooting at the cineplex, yesterday another crazed gunman killed six members of a Sikh mosque in Wisconsin. Then, today, the Arizona shooter who … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Same old same old…

Well, unfortunately, “concealed & Crazy” and “Wounded Madhouse” blog entries are quite relevent owing to the ghastly shooting rampage in a movie theater this past weekend. Another notch on the wall of history that counts as an act of evil. … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Wrestling with Reality

Former pro wrestler and Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura has a book out that addresses our country’s current and worsening political dysfunction. In it, he refers to republicans as rebloodicans and democrats as democrips, a play on the names of the … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment