This morning at my usual haunt, I watched as a bearded 20-something — T-shirt and pot-belly — sloshed and sloshed and sloshed his coffee on the condiment counter, stirring it like he absolutely, positively didn’t give a shit. “Dude!” I said, thinking I might snap him out of whatever born-in-a-barn reverie had laid hold of him, but he […]
Or, why this non-Bernie-or-Bust progressive is voting for Big Orange We’re back to bread and circuses, it seems, the featured act this election cycle being a false-choice rumble between Republican fear mongering (Mexican/ISIS zombie hoards coming to eat our brains) and Democratic fear mongering (Republican zombie hoards coming to eat our brains). The winner, we’re told, […]
Final scene, I think. A Bruce Willis movie? The hero is walking toward us, away from whatever bad thing has just happened. Without looking back or even breaking stride, he tosses a lit match or cigarette or grenade over his shoulder. Or maybe he presses a button on the remote he’s carrying. Whatever it is, whatever he does, a gigantic […]
