Anniversary… The Trash Has Gone To The Curb 24 Mar 202324 Mar 2023 I'm done looking at my fragmentary material. I will still be shoring up and trimming old material, but all the drafts that seemed worth saving have been examined, critiqued, and…
9/11… My Guy 24 Mar 2023 Despite his shortcomings, I still think Barack Obama has done more good than bad. And there is plenty of room to disagree with me on that. Dissident writing has helped…
Blogs Bullshit On Parade 23 Mar 2023 I have taken care to stay above the fray as best I can over the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. So much so that I'm not going to call it a war. Politicians…
Deep Thoughts… Funda-mental 23 Mar 202323 Mar 2023 Some people, like Chris Hedges, seem to think that there is a "new" atheism, and that we are "secular fundamentalists". Sorry. Atheism is pretty much just as proud and as…
Antipsychotics… All Quiet On The Bloggy Front 22 Mar 2023 I can't believe it's been two weeks since I've filled this space with something. Thing is, I've been riddled with panic attacks nearly every day lately. I have been to…
High Crime New York, New York. I Still Love Ya, Even With The Crime 22 Mar 202323 Mar 2023 When I was in my late teens, I was lucky enough to go play around in Manhattan during the Koch years, when the city was dirty, corrupt, a horrorshow on…
Afghanistan… No Good Way Out 22 Mar 202322 Mar 2023 I must be honest; our withdrawal from Afghanistan is pretty embarrassing. I realize its origins reside in the Trump administration. You're an idiot if you believe otherwise. But the black…
Iraq… Choice Words 22 Mar 2023 I'm late on this, but it's still really bothering me. President Trump is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. And boy, let me tell you how happy I am that…
Domestic Terror… Here Come The Blackshirts 22 Mar 2023 Mona Charen's gotten her head out of her ass long enough to sound the klaxon about Trumpian vigilante justice: Donald Trump has effectively deputized a "mob" of vigilantes who are…
Africa… The Third Republic 22 Mar 2023 Because Ugandans have been subjected to some of the worst postcolonial conditions of the late 20th century, it pains my heart to see that there is now a thing like…