Author Archives: Gene Stewart

About Gene Stewart

Born 7 Feb 1958 Altoona, PA, USA Married 1980 Three sons, grown Have lived in Japan, Germany, all over US Currently in Nebraska I write, paint, play guitar Read widely Wide taste in music, movies Wide range of interests Hate god yap Humanist, Rationalist, Fortean Love the eerie

Dismissers

Posted on June 22, 2022 by Gene Stewart

Interpretation sabotages both archaeology and ethnology. Cave art is seen in a way to benefit a prevailing view. Carvings, sculpture, and bas-relief at ancient sites are dismissed when anachronism is noticed, such as ancient, modern, or off-continent plants and animals, … Continue reading →

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Do You Hear What I’m Hearing?

Posted on June 16, 2022 by Gene Stewart

Not sure the 1/6/21 hearings will make a dent. People don’t track. They’re kept busy with life trouble, from plagues and supply chain shortages to gnawing anxiety and collapsing healthcare.  Distraction from the coup. Evidence from the hearing could not … Continue reading →

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Let Me Take A Shot At This

Posted on June 9, 2022 by Gene Stewart

Susie and I watched the superb movie BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK. All-star understated layers of oblique dialogue and concise storytelling. Spencer Tracy carries no gun. His character solves problems with appropriate response and is polite and peaceful throughout. Afterwards, … Continue reading →

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Scrape It Off

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Gene Stewart

Influence on writers of cosmic, or weird, horror can and should be credited to H P Lovecraft’s work. Setting aside racism, his work touched on a cold existential view of mankind, Earth, the Solar system, even the Milky Way Galaxy, … Continue reading →

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To All You Foes

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Gene Stewart

Lights in our sky They hover nearby Whispering answers Without saying why Asking us questions Of inside, of out, Of whether we’re certain Or living in doubt Drawing us up Hunting us down Haunting our farmland Examining town Freezing our … Continue reading →

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We See Clearly the Whites of Their I’s

Posted on March 7, 2022 by Gene Stewart

Like Trump, Putin displays Dunning Kruger effect, thinking his narrow, bitter, and paranoid view is genius, hugely over-estimating his own intelligence while deprecating everyone else’s.  Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, NK’s Kims, Noriega, Khomeini, Saddam, Pinochet, Marcos, Mussolini, Ceaușescu, Vlad … Continue reading →

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Teach Change Via Fact

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Gene Stewart

We live as ants amidst ruins we don’t even see. /// Academia’s stability is its fatal flaw.  Tenure and established texts ensure a hostility to changes in curriculum evidence should bring.  College and university campuses should be places of continual … Continue reading →

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Culture Theft Vs. Exploration

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Gene Stewart

Cultural appropriation would neither work nor matter if it didn’t sell. It is those supporting it that make it vile. There is a racist market for such theft. When Pat Boone whitened music by Little Richard or Chuck Berry, that … Continue reading →

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Marched Through Chaos Into Tyranny

Posted on November 27, 2021 by Gene Stewart

“From chaos to monarchy,” is the GOP’s rallying cry. They don’t want anarchy. Exactly the opposite. They want a king, a permanent tyrant. Authoritarianism is their addiction.  Most GOP followers or supporters don’t care if the strong man is conservative … Continue reading →

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Intolerance Must Not Be Tolerated

Posted on November 19, 2021 by Gene Stewart

Keep art free and we keep ourselves free. A book called My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent focuses on long-term incestuous abuse by a father on a daughter and on others. That it’s written by a man has led to … Continue reading →

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