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The Turn of the Screw
Todd Hayen
Remember when you were a kid and saw “thumbscrew torture” for the first time in some late-night horror film?...
Project Total Control: Everything Is a Weapon When Totalitarianism Is Normalized
John & Nisha Whitehead
“The biggest mistake I see is people waiting for A Big Sign that’ll tell them that things have gone...
Nothing is Perfect
Todd Hayen
I was reading an article from KW Norton Borders about AI going rogue and for whatever reason my brain...
The Scuppering
Sylvia Shawcross
And so the Puppet Masters smiled. Now children, it is not difficult. Not difficult at all. There’s this thing...
Supreme Court Makes the President a Dictator for Life
John & Nisha Whitehead
“The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power,...
The British Government?
Iain Davis
Well, here in the UK we have a new Trilaterist….er, sorry, I meant Labour government, led by the charismatic...
That’s All Folks (Redux)
CJ Hopkins
Well, what do you know, it looks like we’ve got another “CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY” on our hands. Yes, that’s...
Don’t Kid Yourself
Todd Hayen
So many people I read or talk to seem to think that we shrews are making inroads, primarily in...
Mission Creep: How the Police State Acclimates Us to Being Modern-Day Slaves
John & Nisha Whitehead
“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present...
A Father’s Day Message to Rory McIlroy
Edward Curtin
I’m easily old enough to be your father, and as I was watching and rooting for you when you...
The Death of the Shadow
Todd Hayen
Recently my sister gave me an article written in a weekly magazine that the El Convento Hotel in San...
AI and Commercial Music
Todd Hayen
Del Bigtree recently devoted a segment on his popular program, The Highwire, on the advent of AI in commercial music. Del...
Whistling in the Dark
Sylvia Shawcross
In the morning, the bobolink sings. It always heartens me—listening to the morning chorus of creatures waking up to...
And the Cancer Keeps Rolling In
Todd Hayen
Kate Middleton has cancer. The King of England has cancer. Every day we hear of more and more people...
Maybe better than we did
Sylvia Shawcross
Now, Godot the raccoon, now aptly named Myrtle-Godot arrived plump and tired and fuzzy at dawn for what would...
Asymmetric Idiocy
CJ Hopkins
I miss the 1970s sometimes. Not just the music. And the sex. And the drugs. I miss the terrorists....
The Killer Instinct
We went to Rat Island to kill, but it was not rats we were after. I was ten years...
Too Massive to Comprehend
Todd Hayen
I remember a time not too long ago when you could sort of see what was happening in the...
Wings, Prayers and Hooplas
Sylvia Shawcross
It took me a year before I finally succumbed to a phone that would accept 5G. They bugged me...
How Freedom Dies from A to Z
John & Nisha Whitehead
“As I look at America today, I am not afraid to say that I am afraid.” Former presidential advisor...
