Payback, Mr. Columbus, is the Only Riches We Offer
Fourteen hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Three ships filled with greed and pain; He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain. He sailed by night; And sailed by …
Category: Los Angeles
Broken Wings: March 5, 2010
It’s come to my attention that I haven’t posted this outside of a couple of social media platforms. This would be one of the reasons that I favor teaching citizens …
Blood in the Water
There is a man in a white house that sits on a drained swamp. He sits like a toad and he spits poison into the air, hitting as many people …
Why They Won’t Don the Mask
The interesting part about deep-diving into subjects is that sometimes you stumble across patterns that are obvious in hindsight but you are blind to until you get the material in …
Blood in the Gears
In 1973, Ursula K. LeGuin wrote a short story called “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” It posits a perfect city and a perfect society where everyone is ideally …
Re-open Who the What Now?!
In today’s news, friend hooked me up with the “Reopen California” group so I could see what was up behind protests in Huntington Beach and Simi Valley (and Michigan). How …
My Quarantine Face
Everybody should try a little plague doctoring every now and then.
A Dream of Life After Quarantine
Imagine if it’s… not the same. Institutions like prisons and detention camps are abolished. They aren’t worth the risk to the general population anymore. Instead, people create a flood of …
The Audacious Reign of the Fox (News)
One of the more amusing things that happens when you deep dive into religion, spirituality and mythology is that you run across things that just scream “If you’d only paid …
The Commons vs Animism
If you read up on animism, theologians distinguish it from post-agricultural religions. Mostly because, according to their observations, there is no division between life and what they classify as “religious …