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WORM WAR ONE
A very unusual and deeply significant event happened last Fall, but largely escaped notice in the media. The significance of this story is that we have crossed a threshold, entered a new territory, and...
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SYRIA–6,000 DEATHS AND (NOT) COUNTING
Bertolt Brecht reputedly asked,”If the government doesn’t trust the people, why doesn’t it dissolve them and elect a new people?” While Robert Anton Wilson may have been the only person who knows where...
View ArticleTHE RUSSIAN CONNECTION
It’s the Cold War all over again. Americans left and right are being accused of taking orders and money from, being the tools of, or at least harboring sympathy for, a miraculously resurrected Evil...
View ArticleTHE UNITED STATES OF DENIAL
I want to explore the geography of the United States of Denial just a little. No, “The United States of Denial” is not a new name for Egypt. I’m talking about the good ol’ USA, where we are all united...
View ArticleLARRY NASSAR AND THE BOUNDARIES OF COMPASSION
Even in the midst of a veritable avalanche of revelations of sexual predation, the case of Larry Nassar sticks out like a gaping, bleeding wound. It’s not just that he took advantage of his position as...
View ArticleSTARTING THE REVOLUTION WITH….GOURMET HOT CHICKEN?
My attention was attracted by a headline in a recent Nashville Scene: H*t Chicken Sh**t Addresses Gentrification in North Nashville The event, which I’m not sure how to pronounce—“Hot Chicken Shoot”?...
View Article“MAKING THE ECONOMY SCREAM” IN VENEZUELA
“We’re going to make their economy scream.” —Richard Nixon, on US plans to overthrow the government of Chilean President Salvador Allende in the early 1970’s I am outraged about the way the US is...
View ArticleMR. MUELLER’S MARCH SURPRISE
First off, I have to confess that I did not expect what seems to be Robert Mueller’s core assessment: that he could find no evidence of collusion between the Russian government and the Turnip campaign....
View ArticleCOME YE AMATEURS OF WAR
I want to start with The Green Party’s official press release about the murder of Iranian Major General Qassim Soleimani. Greens joined demonstrations in at least 80 cities in 38 states over the...
View ArticleWHEN THE BLACK SWANS COME HOME TO ROOST
I certainly didn't foresee that the economic shutdown of Nashville would be due to a pandemic, but here we are, right where I 've been saying we're going. Such an unforeseeable, catastrophic event, is...
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