Someone turned the switch, and, without so much as a fare-thee-well, summer was gone. One day last week, on a business errand that had me paddling round the anonymous Northwest suburbs of Detroit I noted my on-dash thermometer said, ugh, 100 degrees exactly. Then, on my return trip home, the wind picked up, the sky turned steel-colored, the school buses were forming in flocks, and | Read More »
My wife and I were arguing that morning, which was odd, in that it was our Second Wedding Anniversary. In your various fantasizing and misty dreaming about your wedding anniversary as a young married, you dream up various stage-scenes, where you and your betrothed lounge about on swan-shaped satin pillows, toasting each other in lustful prose over mimosa and eggs, and so on, and on. | Read More »
It is worth it to recall those heady days right after the election of 2008… We were treated to one asinine bit of puffery after another from the Mrs. Pinchon wing of the Republican Party: The Grande Dames David Frum, Christopher Buckley and David Brooks prattled on and on about such weighty issues as Barack Obama’s obvious pragmatism, or his sexy pant-leg crease. Well, the | Read More »
On the evening of June 23rd, 1973, President Richard Nixon was vamping around the Oval Office with his main foil, Bob Haldeman. They were musing about what the recent break-in at the Watergate Hotel was about, and what the heck it might all mean. Nixon, as history has borne out, was clueless about the whole matter up to this point. But, then he said something | Read More »
Good Evening. As you are already aware, I am commanding the end of the American Military Presence in Iraq. I don’t think there is any question that America’s role as an imperial, racist and destructive bourgeoisie power must be drastically reduced, if not outright removed from the circles of the world. This has always been an unstated goal of mine, although, as you also are | Read More »
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