He is our Shame, Our Agony

To the Barricades Pulling out of the Paris Agreement pisses me off. I’m furious with the titans of industry extorting our representatives into taking this outrageous action. We are the rogue nation with a blighted unhealable soul. Any semblance of our being that shining beacon on a hill just got tossed into the dustbin […]

Passion Play

Tailgate Party for One in the Middle of Nowhere You got to have passion man. You have to feel it down to the bone. Nothing gets done up in the head. The near-enemy of passion is greed. “I don’t want a seat at the table, I want the table.” I am quoting a banker hankering […]

Into the Wilderness

“Why not be the best version of our selves?”

The Lunch Bucket Card Carrying Men in My Family

Where the people live… in reality… they don’t live in trade deals

Bachelorhood as Infrastructure

To Have Anything You Must Give Her Everything “You peeling down into your French lingerie and your slick high-heeled cowgirl boots, I swear on a stack of Gideon’s, you don’t want a fair fight… Trying to ensnare me in my own weaknesses…. I know your kind; you’ll have nothing and nobody to blame but […]

Slimeballing, Suckerpunching Misdirection Games

The Butt of a Bad Joke Jack Welsh coined the phrase “shareholder value.” Two pieces of the puzzle tilted in capitals favor from this four decade ago event. First, was an emphasis upon the share price. The second was the compensation packages for management. Washington was not an innocent bystander. Tax cuts, trade policy, regulation […]

The Boar’s Big Oil Agony

We are ungovernable. We can’t do it. In other batshit crazy news you might have noticed that the decline of crime is being correlated to a decline in airborne lead levels. Take the lead out of gasoline and just like that you get a 70% decrease in violent crime. Who knew? The king is not […]

Stupid, Dumb and Dunderheaded

“Your wallets gone, passport is missing and you’ve just received a note from the consulate. There is nothing they can do. You will have to live with your new tattoo and the sex change operation.” Send in the clowns… they’re already here… Working today on the stupid… I try not to do stupid, but […]

The Idiots Guide to Discovering Surefire Laughs

Those tough nuts can be tough to crack.

Your One Night Stand on the Front Page

Imagining Hot Spring Honeymoon Where Love Has Come to Play “Emptiness does not differ from form. Emptiness is form and form is emptiness,” This ambiguous quote comes from Buddhism’s great teachings contained in The Heart Sutra. Caught in this paradoxical world of here and now, the fiction writer slashes through all the chaos that […]