Farewell to Big Sister: Janet Napolitano’s Orwellian Legacy Lives On
....And then there’s the news about Friday, September 6, 2013, being Janet Napolitano’s last day as head of the Department…
Glass Eyes
Endless displays of memories frozen in time decorated empty spaces along the walls. Children laughed and chased each other from…
Ten Reasons Why America Does Not Need to Go to War Over Syria
For once, I would love to hear a government official reject a call to war because it is immoral; because…
Santa’s on Xanax
Sitting -- toe deep -- in the white-beach pseudo-snow, the tides tying time into knots of irrelevancies . . .…
Elegiac, Creeping, Oceanic
So I was sitting in a Starbucks at this sort of long, skinny table with two stools at it; I…
Unfinished Business
Jack Harvey had been coming to Germany for many years. A successful salesman whose retirement was quickly approaching, he wanted…
Miley Cyrus and the Pornification of America
There’s a strange irony to the fact that on the same week of the 93rd anniversary of the ratification of…
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here—The American Prison System
Imitating Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s famous work on the gulag prison system in Soviet Russia, The First Circle, Jens Soering portrays himself…
(Alien) Baby Got Back
The rain was falling down, down hard against the ground. The roads were flooded. Darkness spread, and even the motel…
I prefer funerals.
I worked for years as a church custodian, and I always liked working funerals better than weddings. For one thing,…