Unpaid Bills

Category: Bill Shea

  • Twitter Dunkirk: I’m fleeing for Bluesky

    Before we get started, follow me on Bluesky here. Now, onto business: Elon Musk’s modus operandi has been to take credit for the work of others, and position himself as an eccentric super genius. His scheme, like his hair plugs, has largely worked and untold millions credulously admire him and have made him the wealthiest…

  • Trump 2.0: Send in the clowns (and Nazis, freaks, and perverts)

    It’s another bullshit morning in Suck City (apologies to Nick Flynn). The weekend was dominated by the sort of absurdities and and shocks to the system that I expect to be regular occurrences the next four miserably stupid years. And even before dawn today, we’ve been reminded that Trump is a violent fascist. First, we…

  • America is a dog eating its own vomit

    “This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it – that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesman with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the…

  • Burn the bridges, burn the boats

    I turned my back on corporate mainstream journalism because fascists deserve to be called fascists

  • Your Man In Havana

    HAVANA – It’s important to know from the start that I deeply dislike flying. Many years ago – in “the 1900s” as the vile callow youth of today like to say – I was aboard a Navy airliner (not unlike a Delta or Southwest jet, very civilian rather than military), and we ran low on…

  • A Pirate Looks Aghast At Fifty

    The title of this piece is appropriated from a Jimmy Buffett album and song released in 1974 – fifty years ago. Which also was when I was born.