The President Who Destroyed the Klan: Ulysses S. Grant, An Unappreciated and Undervalued Leader
While President, Ulysses S. Grant destroyed the terrorizing Ku Klux Klan to protect the lives of the freed former slaves.…
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Governmental Highway Robbery: Asset Forfeiture and the Pillaging of the American People
Long before Americans charted their revolutionary course in pursuit of happiness, it was “life, liberty, and property” which constituted the…
Russell Edson and the Strange Shape of Literature to Come
Like the character of the toy maker, Edson constructs his own worlds with parts of thoughts and feelings. His worlds…
Morning on Three Sides and Other Poems
Mornings. Like heaven. It's morning on three sides now Windows all around I love my old quilt Wrapped around me…
In the Mind of a Sleeping Cat and Other Poems
There was no god to begin with: only a small spectral entity lumbering up a tree. Not ennui, not cosmic…
Disaster Movies and the Collective Longing for Annihilation
The majority of the human species breathed a sigh of relief as they woke up Saturday morning December 22, 2012…
At Sea and Other Poems
He is in the water, legs kicking like horses. The water is joyous spinning around him its ribbons. The sky…
Small Love Affairs Gone: Music, Memory, Missing
I’ll admit: when I decided to give up my own music and let other people pick what I listened to…
We Shall Overcome? The Problem of Self Infatuation in Western Ideology and Conflict Resolution
Wildly popular in modern culture, the medium of film operates as a pseudo canvas upon which current and historical social…
The Bricklayer
Danny O’Toole suddenly found himself hovering somewhere between time and space; hearing conversations from people who were not there. He…