2019-08-30 03:33
The idea that there has to be an author of a joke is properly paranoiac: it means that there has to be an “Other of the Other,” of the anonymous symbolic order, as if the very un… Read More
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who are the defeatists? we are the superheroes of the new millennium: boulder, not bolder. the era of the passive, like taoist superhero has arrived. we capitulate!!
2018-07-15 20:05
New post at the Veterans Today Daily Report. Some silliness but also a plea for workplace tolerance and the return of four letter words.
We really do not appreciate the elegance of var… Read More
2017-08-24 02:05
New post. Gratuitous although relevant Doors music. Shakespeare. List of Russian Movies on Afghanistan. General Character assassination of Trump, although there's really not that much to as… Read More
2017-05-20 05:54
New post. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. Outsiders have trying that over and over and over with Afghanistan since Alexander the Great, and it d… Read More
2016-05-03 23:42
Look out, Cleveland, the storm is comin' through/And it's runnin' right up on you
Look out, Houston, there'll be thunder on the hill, Bye bye, baby, don't you lie so still
Ku… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
In struggling for my own metaphor, I had thought that Barrack Obama is a digital guy dealing with a digital universe and Putin, the Tea Party, and so on analog guys dealing with reality as a… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Our clannishness and callousness proceeds from 800 years of English exploitation and imperialism. We should recall that the Irish and highland Scots and Welsh as well were seen as sub-human… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Scott Adams is annoying, but he does allow us moments of great clarity --treasure all such moments, actively seeking by just letting them arise... Next, it appears that Don Williams is relea… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
So, the Army of Northern Virginia was left on day 3 to try a frontal attack, across an open plain with unseen obstacles that would slow, disrupt and canalize attacking soldiers into killing… Read More
2016-03-10 20:49
Ever notice that Dr. Sartwell's eyes appear baggy? This is probably why...
Hey, Leviticus...should there be a discount because the girl is over 26?
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2015-11-23 21:15
“A devil tempts a character to do something naughty, and the angel wags a threatening finger…I believe in these two entities as much as I believe in talking llamas&hellip&hell…Read More
2015-10-26 20:56
I've been very sick the last couple of weeks. One course of pretty nasty antibiotics and I started to feel better and then wham! Back to the local Stop&Doc where I got the first prescri… Read More
2015-08-08 06:13
When I was a kid, the writer who influenced me the most was Norman Mailer. I read everything, a lot of which was pretty insane, but most of which was brilliant, if hard to understand… Read More
2015-07-12 06:24
How covering your tracks with hypocrisy makes you worse than a mere predator Read More
2015-05-11 18:36
I strongly recommend political junkies and philosophy fans take a look at Anat Belitzki's The Stone column in the this morning's New York Times, Making It Explicit in Israel. E… Read More
2015-04-20 18:50
Willie and Waylon and all are great examples of the craft of Texas songwriting, as are Lyle Lovett and Rodney Crowell and Robert Earle Keen but for me, Guy Clark is probably the most… Read More
2015-04-09 20:31
While I have not yet read Masha Gessen's The Brothers, her investigation into how the Boston Marathon Bombing happened and what followed, her column in the New York Times this morning is we… Read More
2015-04-09 01:12
Crusader AXE has a new piece on the Iranian deal up over at Veterans Today and while I think it's fairly reasonable, I was initially gratified to find the comments were all written not… Read More
2015-03-03 06:35
Nemtsov Murder Scene Investigation
"Russia does not have a machinery of ideology or repression on the scale of the 1930s. Mr Nemtsov did not present any plausible political… Read More
2015-02-17 20:26
Possibly the most important thing I have ever written, as edited by the incomparable Erica Wissinger. In fact possibly the most important thing that has ever been written since...writing!&n&helli…Read More
2015-01-12 00:53
Empty Food Bank in New Jersey
So the economy is growing tremendously, gas prices are down, unemployment is as good as it's been for decades, and yet the American people are unhappy and depre… Read More
2015-01-01 04:17
My dad told me that a good manager was right more than 51% of the time. I think he was right -- great managers and leaders probably get it right around 60% of the time, and generally… Read More
2014-12-28 19:46
I went to see the doctor of philosophyWith a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his kneeHe never did marry or see a B-grade movieHe graded my performance, he said he could see through me… Read More
2014-12-21 18:58
Latest piece from Vets: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/12/20/merry-christmas-is-what-they-tell-me/ I thought I was writing a music piece...go figure?
Comme… Read More
2014-12-06 23:11
Ever See the Dustin Hoffman film from the early 70s, Little Big Man?
There's a great sequence at the end, when Chief Dan George decides that it is time to die, and so he takes Hoffman… Read More
2014-12-04 06:34
It's not that nothing happened; it's just that everything that happened pissed me off more. However, I saw an article today in Foreign Affairs that as Kant said of David Hume, awakened me fr… Read More
2014-11-15 21:24
Rock and Roll has come a long way from Pat Boone ripping off Little Richard...
There is this though --
Jerome Gee and his Happy Dancers...
The original..B0bby Womack and… Read More
2014-11-14 21:15
The problem with the world today is that the smart people are full of doubt and the stupid people are full of confidence --Bukowski
THE SECOND COMING
Turning and turning… Read More
2014-10-18 00:14
Hierophanies and...autoclaves and general madness PT II
Rational people with rational ideas can't function in our government these days, so PANIC!
Michael Farrell, Veterans Today Columnist&n&hell…Read More
2014-10-14 02:48
Sometimes insight arrives from the oddest places...
As I suspect a lot of us are experiencing, some of my closest friends like Bob Redford and Babs Striesland are convincve… Read More
2014-09-26 20:12
Got Power To Take It Won't Have Power To Keep It
Shyness for weakness, silence for snobbery...
Mike Farrell, Veteran's Today Columnist
One of the benefits of being a Dylan fan… Read More
2014-09-11 03:30
Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the&nb&hellip…Read More
2014-09-05 21:20
"I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by… Read More
2014-08-25 19:32
The Parable of the Dog Park
ISIL, Syria, Iraq and the Illusion of American Power
Once upon a time there were three dog parks. To play in either of the two nicest parks, a dog had to be part… Read More
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