'…a major destabilizing influence'
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer. -D.H. Lawrence One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. -Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit I had an interesting exchange recently with a man I met at my local Panera where I often have a breakfast sandwich …
My father’s father played his violin in the attic Where no one could see his tears. My great aunt (my father’s mother’s sister) kept Nubian goats And two squirrel monkeys in her sunroom That she would diaper and release when we visited. There is nothing like the sensation Of those tiny fingers searching your hair …
Another lost war! Another denial! The US actually began its war on the people of Afghanistan back during the presidency of Jimmy Carter, who foolishly followed the advice of his Russia-hating, rabidly anti-Communist Polish emigre National Security Director Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski, in mid-1979, successfully convinced the gullible Carter to launch Operation Cyclone, a $20-billion, 10-year …
Smoke from the firestorm that erupted after Bill Cosby’s release from prison obscures a unique twist in the traditional roil around rape, race and racism. A jury convicted Cosby in 2018 for a 2004 incident where the Black celebrity drugged and sexually molested a white woman inside his mansion located in a suburb of Philadelphia, …
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Here is a poem (And it was f—king hard to write) Because I’m back from the island Where we go To get away from it all Where When we are there I write lots of poems Because my mind begins to clear And I begin to accept the ebb and flow Of life on an …
My friend the local legend Sings stories for icecream cone eaters He got his trusty Guild He got his voice Steroids added an octave to his range He got his attitude He’ll sing Ballads old Dylan tunes just right Catch the wind Catch the blues Red white and bruised He’ll tell you the real story …
She’s at it again! Amy Cooper – the now infamous ‘Central Park Karen’ – is raging again. This time Cooper is raging in a lawsuit against her former employer who fired Cooper after that May 25, 2020 incident in New York City’s Central Park. An enraged Cooper called police and falsely accused a Black man …
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Buried inside an embarrassing scandal now broiling Philadelphia, Pa are legacies from America’s despicable era of lynching. The spark for the scandal in Philadelphia is revelations about morbid mistreatment of human remains of Black victims from the horrific 1985 police bombing and burning in Philadelphia of the back-to-nature group MOVE. During the lynching era, many …
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I grow asparagus While remote Arctic bases Sprout in the far north The conning towers Of submarines break through The ice like black plants They say We don’t want War but we will defend our (fill in the blank) Keep your eye on them Keep your eye on yourself too Cross yourself We are In …
The gold standard for shamelessness has long been the guy who murders his parents and then pleads for the mercy of the court because he’s an orphan. The US, as well as the lickspittle NATO nations of Europe have pretty much topped this hypothetical example with a real one. They accomplished this by going …