One Way Ticket and Friendship Rises Over the Dead Zone
Curls of smoke chased the darkness away. Its hair-like strand slid down across the night. The ghostly white against the…
Licensed to Kill: The Growing Phenomenon of Police Shooting Unarmed Citizens
Here’s a recipe for disaster: Take a young man (or woman), raise him on a diet of violence, hype him…
Mayoral Firsts
This November New Yorkers will go to the polls to vote for a replacement for incumbent mayor Michael Bloomberg. Scandals…
Boom
Wish I could've went to Stonehenge to find what the ancient corpses dug up I hear they're trying to resurrect…
Jane, Get Me Off This Crazy Thing!
What were the Jetsons’ besides the wet dream of acceleration uninterrupted? The year is 2062. From the opening credits, it’s…
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…