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Violins in a Musty Attic
Sylvia Shawcross There is a kind of dark twisted amusement that strikes me sometimes. I don’t know about you....
Evil Walks Among Us: Monsters with Human Faces Wreak Havoc on Our Freedoms
John Whitehead “But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old...
Historical Hysterical
Sylvia Shawcross Anyways…. I was thinking about history again. I’m thinking maybe “they” are right. The ones who live...
My Reply to the Religious Zionist with “Tears in His Eyes”
Michael Lesher Dear Religious Zionist: Your most recent email to me – in which you ask me to “take...
Where Have All the Lanternflies Gone?
Michael Lesher Remember the spotted lanternfly? Barely a year ago, this colorful winged insect was supposed to be a...
Illusory Guilt
Todd Hayen You are not destroying the planet. You are not a cancer to the earth that must be...
The Foolish at Night
Sylvia Shawcross The foolish-hearted people exist in this world more than we really know. The foolish-hearted people do foolish-hearted...
Peacocks Paradise
Sylvia Shawcross Come with me now down this path. It is a path soft with the fallen frailties of...
“Let’s Kill All the Lawyers”- The REAL Trouble with the Trump Indictment
Michael Lesher “The first thing we do,” says Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare’s early history play Henry VI, Part...
Notes to Poetry: Or, defending freedom for the future
Simon Elmer Der Zauberlehrling (1797) is the title of a famous ballad by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a re-telling...
Art Equals Human—Not Anymore
Todd Hayen
When I was a young lad of 11, I was fascinated with computers, or what little there was of...
They’re Coming To Take You Away
Michael Lesher Suppose I tell you in advance that the essay you are reading is meant to startle you....
Where Have the Voices for Liberty Gone?
Michael Lesher In early 2020, when American liberals wailed in unison that the First Amendment’s guarantee of the right of free...
Only Adult Children Still Believe US Propaganda
Edward Curtin Veteran OffG contributor Edward Curtin shares his interpretation of the conflict in Ukraine It should now be...
Palestine, Yes – Ukraine, No
Michael Lesher Maybe it’s because I’m a religious Jew and a supporter of Palestinian rights – and because it’s...
Ukraine: A new battle in the old war of the “New Normal”
Michael Lesher In one sense, I don’t have much to say about the newest chapter in the eight-year-old American...
What I Would Have Missed
Christine E. Black Sally had drawn a Confederate flag picture on the cover of her writing journal that sat...
Truth or Covid? (or, “why we know everything they’re telling us is a lie”)
Michael Lesher Remember the good old days at the beginning of the COVID coup – before the new dogmas...
A War against Humanity
Michael Lesher Audio Version New Feature! Halloween was once a popular holiday in Passaic. Year after year, my neighborhood’s...
The shot that was NOT heard ‘round the World
Michael Lesher More than seven months have passed since an unarmed protester named Ashli Babbitt was shot dead inside...
