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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Asymmetric Idiocy

CJ Hopkins

I miss the 1970s sometimes. Not just the music. And the sex. And the drugs. I miss the terrorists....

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The Killer Instinct

We went to Rat Island to kill, but it was not rats we were after.  I was ten years...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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The Hidden Messages of the Power Elite’s Cultural Apparatus

Edward Curtin

To be crucified is to suffer and die slowly and agonizingly.  It was a common form of execution in...

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Alice in Wonderland

Todd Hayen

I used to be shocked and amazed when weird things happened in the world that seemed to be connected...

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We have no piece on their piechart

Sylvia Shawcross

There is a lusty bird that sings at dusk outside my window high in the cedar tree. I’ve never...

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Fighting Monsters

CJ Hopkins

So, I gave a little speech about art, and war. The Internationale Agentur für Freiheit, a Berlin art and...

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Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News

John & Nisha Whitehead

“It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of...

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Humanity is Messy

Todd Hayen

One thing that really annoys me is this idealistic quest for a perfect society. Whether this quest comes from...

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