Everybody Knows They Are Nowhere
I hope therefore you will not only readily accept of this rude essay as a token from your friend, but take it under your more immediate protection, as being dedicated to you, and by that title adopted...
View ArticleBallerina
If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution. —Emma GoldmanThe Occupy Wall Street people are not...
View ArticleThe Said Admiral Is Dead
They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Taino, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into...
View ArticleGun Rites
The nonsense with the bodies: it just won’t stop.Recently I wrote of the Doritos inventor who was buried with his corn chips scattered on and around his corpse. Which followed the special dispensation...
View Article"The Keystone Of The Whole Convention"
Video footage showed Gaddafi, dazed and wounded, but still clearly alive and gesturing with his hands as he was dragged from a pick-up truck by a crowd of angry jostling group of government soldiers...
View ArticleA Little Spin
So. NASA is now going to build gas stations in space.That’s not what the NASAoids are calling them—”propellant depots” is the preferred euphemism—but that’s what they are.Says the New York Times:By...
View ArticleDo The Right Thing
(Various different one Kossacks have suggested from time to time that I publish this piece here. Tonight I figured: Halloween, why not? In many traditions, this is the time of year when the scrim...
View ArticleThere, There
We did what we could but it was not enough because I found you here. All of you are not just names on the wall, you are alive. Your blood's on my hands, your screams in my ears, your eyes in my soul. I...
View ArticleLark Ascending
Occupy Wall Street was born of this image. That is what it is about. That is its power.The United States Supreme Court, when, in the early 20th Century, it moved to codify restrictions on free speech...
View ArticleThe Cain Scrutiny
I never really got the Herman Cain thing.From what I could tell, he was a guy who looked up one day while making a pizza, and decided he wanted to be president. That part I could sorta understand. For...
View ArticleYet Shall We Be Merry
Dark wizard Albert Grossman deliberately assembled the folk-singing trio Peter, Paul, and Mary to rake in coin amid the urban folk-revival of the early 1960s. He wanted“a tall blonde, a funny guy, and...
View ArticleLegend Of A Mind
It is Known that Rick Perry is a farm animal, the result of a failed Dr. Moreau-type experiment that sought to cross a man with a steer.It is further Known that this experiment was pursued by...
View ArticleDespertar Al Alba
(And so this is solstice. A time when humans, over many tens of thousands of years, have devoted themselves to Deep Thoughts. In the spirit of which, a piece that examines the "Ultimate Answer to the...
View ArticleI Had Her Heart In My Hands
A year ago today a grievously mentally ill man shot Congressmember Gabrielle Giffords in the brain and killed six people who had come to see her outside a Tucson, Arizona Safeway.This site was a...
View ArticleSilenzio
My arm is in a sling. It was my turn to beat Mrs. Drew and in my excitement I pulled a muscle in my forearm. I should make more of an effort to control my emotions....
View ArticleWindage And Elevation
(Among the weirdnesses that have appeared on this site of late have been dueling diaries furiously contending about the proper understanding and explanation of the winds and the clouds and contrails...
View ArticleThe Great Sun That Makes Me Drunk
Love is what they all want. And lack of love is what makes them the way they are....
View ArticleThe Dead
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, sliver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for...
View ArticleMoney, It's Nothin': The Kills For Free
What horseshit.$50,000 for a dead child. And $11,000 for one who is merely "injured."What horseshit.My daughter, injured, gravely, permanently, for the rest of her life, not intentionally, but through...
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