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Time to Get Back to Making the Donuts
“It’s that wounded-poet crap, that soul-pain shit, that too-much-of-a-tortured-genius-to-wash bollocks. Brush your teeth, you little bastard. You’re not fucking Byron.” ― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo’s Calling That’s a wrap. Just like that the 2023 holiday season is over, and… Read More ›
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Christmas Cheer from the Tennessee Department of Education
“Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.” – Joseph Campbell, “The Joseph Campbell Companion” I am forever struck by the inherent hypocrisy of being a parent. We curse like sailors, yet… Read More ›
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Gotta Be A Better Way
“Isn’t Heaven reward enough, without needing to see the damned punished?” ― Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White Tennessee’s upcoming election is going to be a pivotal one. I know, everybody says that about every election, but… Read More ›
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A Simple Request for a Level Playing Field
“Fighting monsters is the easy part. Back home is where the really scary stuff is.” ― Noelle Stevenson, Lumberjanes, Vol. 3: A Terrible Plan The relentless march towards Christmas continues, even as I fail to engage. It’s a strange… Read More ›
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Objects In the Mirror May Be Further Away Then They Appear
“If it’s a choice between a difficult truth and a simple lie, people will take the lie every time. Even if it kills them.” ― Paul Murray It’s been a difficult week, but not for the suspected reasons. This… Read More ›
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What’s Behind The Curtain
“I believe it is worth writing to remind ourselves of what we can’t know. To remind ourselves that certainty is dangerous. That factual knowledge of the world casts only a small light. Fiction is necessary because it seems to me… Read More ›
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There Are No Stupid Questions…Only Political Objections
“It offended her that the past could intrude so literally on the present yet never return.” ― James Hannaham, Delicious Foods This is one of those weeks where I struggle to identify who presents the biggest threat – those… Read More ›
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No Peace In The Valley
“But people as a rule believe only what they want to believe, and if you tell them anything else they’ll call you a trouble-maker and get rid of you and never give you your job back, even if what you… Read More ›
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Same Monkeys At the Wheel
“People who say, ‘Let the chips fall where they may,’ usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.” ― Bernard Williams You walk outside your house and see a monkey driving erratically in a blue car. You… Read More ›
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Will We Ever Develop A Stomach For Honest Conversation?
“Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do,’ Arkadian Porpirych says. ‘What statistic allows one to identify the nations where literature enjoys true consideration better than the sums appropriated for controlling it and… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 