To be completely and one hundred percent honest the following topic is one I’ve made a small effort to avoid. But while watching video of Michael Moore’s speech in Madison I was reminded once again of why being a progressive democrat liberal type guy is well … it’s a rough walk sometimes—and reminded that mythology

It’s 10:15 on a Saturday night … ok no. Actually it’s 3:15, but 10:15 sounds better right? Anyway I’m on this whole song title post title kick and whatever so. And y’know what, I need you to put however sad that sounds behind you, because I’ve just read something that you might want to check

Ok so in a way that is wholly disconnected from any subconscious attempt to avoid penning the “Why My Twitter Avatar isn’t Red” post that’s been kicking around in my head for a week or so … Extreme insomnia + the other day’s musing over the effect a Buffy The Vampire Slayer successful T’Challa: The

Yep you guessed it … your friend and humble narrator is still in the mood to leave 2012 behind—and take magic eight ball to the post President Obama Democrats and Republicans and the election of 2016. Here’s How I Summed Up the Likely Contenders the Other Day: “Lets starts with the democrats and by eliminating

Last November’s complete fucking slaughter like mid-term election results hardly need restating so your friend and humble narrator here at 2112 won’t even bother to try.  But there is something about them – last November’s elections and the campaign cycle that preceded it that is – that hasn’t yet been discussed but absolutely needs to

Ok so for some reason in no way related to anything pilot episode like-ish your friend and humble narrator here at 2112 happens to be writing at the moment (no really, I swear) and owing to some to a depressing amount of fever induced down time … there’s been some re-watching of Buffy the Vampire

Ok so I wrote the following about two weeks ago as an entry for Deathscribe 2010—which is, for those who came in late, a contest for live performances of original short – horror themed – radio plays. Which a friend and I just happened to catch last Halloween at Chicago’s one and only Music Box

Let me ask you a question. It’s a really, wreally, important question. I’d like you to take a moment, a minute or maybe two to think about it before you answer.  You may also want to prepare yourself.  Ok. Ready? Here goes … Why is the media so obsessed with Sarah Palin? Ok that answer there might

“Someone pointed me to Charlie Wilson’s War the other day. My response was that it was Charlie Wilson’s war that gave birth to the Taliban we know as an enemy today. It was Charlie Wilson’s War that justified building up and training young men to fight the Soviets without any thought or regard to what

READ PT ONE: TREASON “It’s like a great darkness falling; it’s the beginning of forgetting.” – Marguerite Duras PART TWO: CASUALTIES For just about as long as we’ve been at war there the recent and distant history of Afghanistan has been wrapped in a cloud of myth that’s worked hard to obscure the context of