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Who's Afraid of The Big Hairy Spider ?

Published on 2009-11-21 11:49:00

Few Americans realize the hatchet job that the Reagan through Bush years did to the progressive income tax system, and to the quality of life that most American now have. While they wail about “excessive” taxation, they don’t remember -- or > read more

The Big Omission

Published on 2009-11-20 23:55:00

Hometown papers have a nasty habit of skewing the news, editorially, to support self-serving notions. My hometown paper, the Altoona Mirror recently decided to describe the Obama administration’s economic stimulus package in the framework of the 1 > read more

Why the Rest of the World Still Hates America

Published on 2009-11-04 20:59:00

In the late 1960’s people still believed that the revolution was at hand. In fact, it was by then, all but over. All that was ever to come of those angry masses wanting an end to war in their own lifetimes, an end to hypocrisy, an end to capitali > read more

My mind is like a potato with too many eyes

Published on 2009-10-31 04:39:00

by jimmi malarkyMy mind is like a potato with too many eyes. Like a college girlWho’s known too many guys…Or the lazy, friendly slob Who’s had job after jobAnd settles for a lifeOf cooking fries…Food service, frozen dinners Almost ane > read more

How Karma Sticks Like Velcro

Published on 2009-10-24 00:15:00

.Seeing How Wrong They WereI don’t really believe in karma. My personal cosmology is based on random chance. My universe popped suddenly into being out of nothingness. This occurred in an unexpected instance of startling cosmic eloquence we call th > read more

Of Paper Cups and Permanence ( A Tone Poem for the Tone Deaf)

Published on 2009-10-15 22:34:00

I've always considered some things in life as being disposable. I’m not talking about diapers, cameras, or paper cups. Nor am I talking about the social extremes of our crumbling and crippled culture: disposable spouses (and the disposable -- or > read more

I’m OK (and You’re even Better ! )

Published on 2009-10-11 11:02:00

Life is a trap. The ultimate roach motel. With every decision, You lock yourself into another compartment with no apparent exit. And most choices either seem like a good idea at the time; or you are simply forced into them by the willfulness of a > read more

Is the End in Sight? -- Why the Extinction of Entire Civilizations Happens

Published on 2009-10-07 01:03:00

Was their any inkling to the average sap in late antiquity that the dark ages were about to descend ? Was the fall of Rome perhaps a hint? Apparently not. Humanity was essentially clueless about the millennium-long unfolding of plague, warfare, tortu > read more

The Revenge of the Smut-Bot : Is Freedom of Speech a Dirty Word in Altoona, PA?

Published on 2009-10-04 01:50:00

There was a time when there were only “7 Dirty Words” (Well, maybe only 7 worth knowing) at least according to the late cultural hero and iconoclast, George Carlin. George actually managed to turn his mockery of verbal hypocrisy in the 1960’s a > read more

The Invisible Hand of the Market and The Illusion of a Capitalist Utopia

Published on 2009-10-01 22:57:00

Adam Smith, long before Marx, understood the notion of “class struggle“. In fact, it was Smith who first gave us the phrase, the “laboring poor” so often used to describe those who struggle the hardest in our country today, in its variant for > read more