Living According to Tolstoy
I haven’t read a hard book since high school, where they force fed me books such as The Catcher in…
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.…
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…
Attorney General Eric Holder: If the President Does It, It’s Legal
“I never thought I would see the day when a Justice Department would claim that only the most extreme infliction…
Gun Freaks: Are They Really Freaks?
Gun control is the topic of discussion after every rich suburban boy with an untreated mental illness gets angry and…
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…