What the Bastards Do in Your Name
You know that corned beef that comes in a can. I admit to really liking it. One reason…easy to sneak into the joint. Anyway, when Snz and I started doing the grocery store thing, she couldn’t believe:...
View ArticleLeft Wing Witch Hunt?
Two things. We were all wrong about the Iraq war because we concentrated on what constituted a “Just War” as opposed to how the US should go to war constitutionally. (Another beg to better understand...
View ArticleSome SCOTUS SPEC
Posting an hour before the,”Hear Ye, Hear Ye.” You may recall that I posted Chief Justice Roberts would find for the administration concerning the Affordable Care Act. Here’s my crystal ball on Prop...
View ArticleHow Organic
Invited into the parlor to an Ayn Rand pow wow discussing our back alley push back against governance by formula – we flow chart and out-line with hierarchical rigidity to detail which this before...
View ArticleNothing Nuke To Report
So watching a news break on MSNBC, and a lovely young lady informs me that the Pentagon now thinks North Korea can miniaturize a nuke to ride a ballistic missile. But never fear, pretty lady assures,...
View ArticleSome SCOTUS SPEC
Posting an hour before the,”Hear Ye, Hear Ye.” You may recall that I posted Chief Justice Roberts would find for the administration concerning the Affordable Care Act. Here’s my crystal ball on Prop...
View ArticleHow Organic
Invited into the parlor to an Ayn Rand pow wow discussing our back alley push back against governance by formula – we flow chart and out-line with hierarchical rigidity to detail which this before...
View ArticleWhen Austerity Doesn’t Add Up
Many missed this story. But it’s a true big deal. Most Ph.D. students spend their days reading esoteric books and stressing out about the tenure-track job market. Thomas Herndon, a 28-year-old...
View ArticleWere It So
“Still, we have failed. The fierce life force of contemporary American poetry never made it through the metal detector of the public-school system. In the Seventies, our hopes seemed justified; those...
View Articlewe can not dedicate, we can not consecrate
Poets, round these parts, seem to shy from politics the pick-up sticks of keeping the show moving and that surprises, yours truly, as the rule of the unruly is to parse pain and promise linguistically,...
View ArticleNumber One With A Bullet
barely legal in the backseat horizontal with the backbeat of a stateside B-Side… destined to chart “in country” ————– poem 15 for NaPoWriMo 15
View ArticleWhat’s The Official Motto Of These United States?
I want a democrat to run for President to do something other than walk behind the elephant with […]
View ArticleOne Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
“In their struggle against the New Deal, the business lobbies of the Depression era had allied themselves with conservative religious …
View ArticleI Could Hark! I Could Snark!
George Packer, writing for the New Yorker, moans… “The issues remain huge and urgent: inequality, global warming, immigration, poorly educated …
View ArticleThe Soul of the Marionette
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” (George Santayana) I’ve got news for Mr. Santayana: we’re …
View ArticleNoah, I really didn’t care for him. But his wife, that Joan of Arc, now she...
It’s 1995 and a murder trial happens in Colorado and the jury debates...
View ArticleI Don’t Play No Ad Hominem, Homie.
A USA TODAY opinion piece starts this way. “In the wake of the Baltimore riots, Al Sharpton is calling for the federal takeover of local police. Like most ideas from the loathsome Rev. Sharpton, this...
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