JEFF NEUMAN Los Angeles (originally posted at Rants and More) In Hunter S. Thompson’s political classic Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, he details the Democratic Party’s (ultimately
- Russia Looks To Curry Favor with US Over Edward Snowden BLAKE TARENWALD JR (Blake is DDA’s first intern. He will be covering politics and news for DDA. Please respect his opinions, and be gentle with him as he earns his chops....
- Trump’s Anti-Cruz Supporters Put Wind In My Sails Now that the deluge of Trumpsters has subsided, I feel it safe to jot down the historical, significant increase in traffic that happened to DDA within the past week. It had...
- More Mohammeds Than Americans Can Handle: Baby Names Menacing Western Society The mental unrest was almost palpable after a report from the Washington Examiner detailed the following frightening information: The number of U.S. newborns named “Mohammed” has jumped 100-fold since 1964, one...
- Starbucks Speeding Up Time, Rushing Us Toward the Apocalypse? ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Escondido, CA Nobody’s saying Starbucks is working to bring the Antichrist into physical existence, which is what you might have garnered from the title, with that hideous...
- The TSA Wants to Know What’s On Your Hands ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE If it wasn’t for having to set up the Dear Dirty America Reality Tour in North Dakota by late July, I wouldn’t have been in the airport. But...
My dear friend and fellow writer Dan Rudy, gave me a delicious description of his recent experience at the opera: Madame Butterfly! It was absolutely gorgeous! And yet, at the
Reuters reports: A top executive of Japan’s scandal-ridden Olympus Corp has been found dead in a park outside New Delhi, an apparent suicide, The Times of India said on Tuesday, quoting police. Tsutomu Omori, 49, who was head
ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles Jefferson helped draft the Declaration of Independence. And now he’s prowling the White House because
DONALD O’DONOVAN Los Angeles (excerpt from O’Donovan’s novel Night Train — see also DDA’s first blogged novel — Orgasmo) I got
ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles Mexico’s president pleaded to US officials to stop gun trafficking over the border. Here is
MICHAEL J BLAIRPerthshire, ScotlandI had encountered American evangelists in small doses on television here in Britain, on the likes of the
ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKELos Angeles This is not Duncan the bear killer, but John Muir, the lover of nature. John Muir
Salute her, or him, like this,with a significant look: I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature; Not till the sun excludes


