My New Writing
After some time away, some health issues, some hard times, and some deep reflection, I have returned to writing. But not here I want this to be an archive of what it was in my AntiDem days. My new Continue reading
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Exile On Main St.
It has now been two and a half years since I settled into my cottage in small-town southern Appalachia. The quiet of the countryside out my window as the sun rises on a new day here invite thought and reflection. Continue reading
Repost: Psycho Dish vs. Communism
Years ago, I wrote a long post which aimed to describe the plight of the white working class by talking about some incidents in the life of my old friend Psycho Dish. Looking back on it, the piece turned out Continue reading
Requiem For An Electric Dream
When I wrote my eulogy for Rush Limbaugh back in February, I didn t intend it to become the first of a three-part series about having to let go of the past. But then came the news that Fry s had closed Continue reading
Wonders In The Darkness
I ve heard it said that you truly begin to feel old when one day you realize that the world you were raised to live in doesn t really exist anymore. Or maybe it s more accurate to say that you start feeling Continue reading
Goodbye, Old Friend
I was sitting in the parking lot of my church on Ash Wednesday, just about to go inside to get my ashes, when the radio told me that Rush Limbaugh had died. With him passes both an era in politics, Continue reading
The Parable Of Joy
I wouldn t say that Joy and I are very close friends, but for a long while from my later college years until I left California we ran in the same social circles and saw each other fairly often. Continue reading
Bad MFs
Since the mid-18th century, we have been in what we are told is the Age of Reason , which was supposed to make the world better by banishing superstition and delusion from public life. As with basically all of the Enlightenment s Continue reading
Denial Is Doom
Thirty years ago, I sat inside a classroom in a hangar at a small airport, taking the ground school course required for my Private Pilot license. The air smelled of strong black coffee and jet exhaust; from beyond the walls Continue reading
Addendum: OPSEC For Your Disney Adventure
Now that I ve laid out some of my political and philosophical thoughts regarding the recent fracas at Disneyland*, it s time to add a short addendum covering the practical. Let me emphasize here that I believe any further action at Disneyland Continue reading