Dear Things

Sitting here in the living room of my beloved childhood home, I count 13 objects just on the mantelpiece alone. I didn’t put all of them there; they’ve been there since I was a kid. I didn’t buy any of them. There they are: 6 bronze figures, a cigarette holder made from a tiger skull, … Continue reading Dear Things

Quick: how long since New Year’s Day 2025?

I’d make it 36 days. Not 36 years or months. DAYS. And yet, when JD gave his great pro-free speech oration in Munich this week— Munich, which had a few days previously suffered a mass murder by an Afghan Muslim— how many Americans remembered Shamsud Din Jabbar? He’s the guy who massacred a buncha people … Continue reading Quick: how long since New Year’s Day 2025?

Coup-coup!

DULY ELECTED PRESIDENT ATTEMPTS TO TAKE OVER THE US GOVERNMENT! Joy Reid called Trump’s efforts to examine and streamline government agencies a ā€œcoupā€. How do they get away with this shit? Do they HEAR themselves? Trump is so right to act with lightning speed. He doesn’t have long before the Leviathan recovers and mounts a … Continue reading Coup-coup!

From ā€œA poem for the Second Inauguration of Donald J. Trumpā€

…by Joseph Charles MacKenzie, member of the Society of Scottish-American Poets: ā€But one man pledged the fortune he possessed To us who cried in silence and in vain, Eschewing pleasure, wealth, foregoing rest His labors consecrated to our pain. …And he remembered us, and looked on our dismay, The man whose word, once given, he … Continue reading From ā€œA poem for the Second Inauguration of Donald J. Trumpā€

Notre Dame reopens!

…….doesn’t it feel, in retrospect, like that fire in April,2019 was a harbinger of the disasters to come? Covid and the lockdowns. Trump ā€œlosingā€ the 2020 election. Open and widespread support for sacrifice or at least irreparable mutilation of children. Wars and rumors of wars. It has been one hell of a five years! But … Continue reading Notre Dame reopens!