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Category Archives: Sample Essays
Snowed In by NSA Obfuscation, or: Duped Into Debating the Wrong Thing, Again
The media, backed by corporate, are fogging this NSA/Snowden (snowed in?) discussion by conflicting what he did — whistle-blowing to draw attention to crimes –to focus instead on false issues like personal privacy. They are doing this by linking every … Continue reading
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Tagged controversy, Crime, democracy, espionage, malfeasance, NSA, SIGINT, Snowden, spy, thuggery, We the People, whistleblower
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Us In the US Versus Them’uns
Right wingers versus lefties. Conservatives versus liberals. Citizens versus crazies. It is a binary set situation, with very little overlap on the Venn diagram. Clinical studies demonstrate conservative minds, corporate mentality, right wingers, labels are optional, operate from a basis … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitalism, Chicago School, christianity, conservative, crazies, Keynesian, left wing, Liberal, right wing, RUN
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Fairness Regained
Fairness Regained, a RAT STEW column by Old 815, written for THE RELUCTANT FAMULUS edited by Tom Sadler A literary journal just bragged that it liked to publish new literary voices and asked me to subscribe. “Publish some of my … Continue reading
Journal For Tonight
Journal Entry, Midwest American Wilderness, 20 February 2013 C.E. 00:03 — Keep flashing on the superb David Cronenberg movie NAKED LUNCH, with the eerie & ethereal Peter Weller. Great Ornett Coleman soundtrack, too. The movie combines the titular book with … Continue reading
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Tagged abandonment, Cronenberg, destitute, drugs, existential, isolation, Junky, NAKED LUNCH, perspective, silence, snow, Wm. S. Burroughs
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Will History Fly?
Kathleen Edwards wrote: Studying history is, for all I can see, nothing but a picking and choosing of the human race of what they want to sell from the past and and what they want to sell to the future. … Continue reading
Who Will It Be?
Publishing is changing. It’s no longer profitable to cling to the 19th Century models that have prevailed until digital became universal. Now it seems trad publishing sneers at ebooks, even as it tries hard to exploit them with the same … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, digital, ebook, hard copy, intellectual property, marketing, merchandising, model, thrive, trad publishing, traditional, unit, writer, Writing
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A Conspiracy of Doubt
Conspiracy is as real as price fixing, point shaving, and gerrymandering. Worse, most things are not what they appear to be, at least on the surface. Dig deeper and always there is more complexity. History is lies agreed upon; this … Continue reading
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Tagged answer, collude, collusion, Conspiracy, enlightenment, fact, gerrymandering, point shaving, price fixing, question, theory
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A Wassail Bowl of Rat Stew for Everyone at Yuletide
(Note: My column Rat Stew appears in the APA Zine: The Reluctant Famulus, edited by Tom Sadler. Please see link on right column of this page.) Christmas is a time for horror movies so let’s dive in, shall we? SILENCE … Continue reading