Hamilton: The Conversation Has Begun
A good read on a show I can’t wait to watch […]
When Newspeak Meets Noose Speak
It’s not only Trump and his trumpsters who stoke civil conflict. The media, in a state of frenzy/chumpstery, take everyone for a fool, fueling the […]
The Slough: Hydrolysis
The shock traveled down the noxious network all the way to the slimy pockets that […]
The Slough: Dead For A Long Time
Fueled by the destruction of others, by the rot in everything he embraces, he seeks out livelihoods, life to crush and […]
The Slough
The deadliest bogs reside in the past, they reach out to us from across the years and […]
The Traps Of Cultural Appropriation
The idea of cultural appropriation — as it operates — is a problem, an extreme for an extreme […]
On Joan Didion’s Democracy
This is a novel, not a memoir, and yet, like in much of Didion’s work, she inserts herself in the narrative, can be heard over […]
Claiming One’s Destiny
‘That the Indians were you!’ […]
Attica’s Wildfire Tragedy
As Attica burns — and the minds of everyone are with the dead, the injured and the displaced — one wonders if the arsonists (it’s […]
Rabid Omnivores
Here’s a fact: We are ruled by monkeys. That either makes us monkeys, or it makes us creatures over whom monkeys rule […]