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The Hug of the Smug
Sylvia Shawcross When you grow older it is almost arduous trying to remember what once was. I was trying...
Jesus, Gaza, and the Murder of Useless People
Edward Curtin Jesus was a Palestinian Jew born in Bethlehem. He grew up in Nazareth and was executed as...
Getting Away With It
Todd Hayen Any of us who pay even the least bit of attention has been made aware of the...
Trauma Nation
Todd Hayen We now are all suffering from acute trauma, in a trauma nation. I would venture to say...
What We Are Not Allowed to Say
Christine Black
Censorship imperils cultures and civilization. When governments and elites prohibit speaking or writing without threats, shaming, or epithets meant...
Lies, Lies, and More Lies
Todd Hayen I was eight years old when John Kennedy was murdered. I remember getting the call from my...
A Guffaw In Need of Being
Sylvia Shawcross The rains of November are cold but the snows of November are colder. It is said that...
Gods of Their Own Religion – REVIEW
Joanna Sharp How do free spirits endure a tyrannical technocratic order? Do they succumb to endless rules, or do...
Dr. Richter’s Diabolical Experiment
Todd Hayen Ever heard of Dr. Curt Richter? Neither had I. During the time in the United States where...
I’m a Jew & I’m NOT a Genocidal Racist — Why Do Israel “Supporters” Keep Telling the World that I Am?
Michael Lesher Remember the serial murderer who called himself “Son of Sam,” and whose unpredictable homicides terrorized New York City for...
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...
