Heart Eyes – Unassuming
Anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eye happens to look down the yawning abyss becomes dizzy... Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, which emerges when the spirit wants to posit the synthesis and freedom looks down into its own possibility, laying hold of...
David Woodard – I Used to Be Cool and We’re Not Coming Back
Unless an event completely shatters the order of one's life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around...
Three Flavors of Saccharine
Contributing to the discord will be a climate that equates opposing ideas or speech to violence and hate. Righteousness can fuel abhorrent behavior, and many react with a shocking level of vitriol and contempt for conflicting viewpoints and the people who hold them....
Junie & TheHutFriends – Boi Cha Cha
I'll give the media and the politicians credit: it took them about three days to get me from I ain't afeard o' no Corona Beer Virus! to HO-LEE @#%&!!! Last Sunday night we had dinner out with friends and family. Fast forward to Friday: the door is barred - no one...
Five Songs to Buy on Friday
Nothing makes you appreciate a functioning government like a global pandemic. -- Andrew Yang Andrew Yang has been described as The Happy Warrior, an appellation previously applied to Lord Nelson and presidential candidates Al Smith and Hubert Humphrey. But Andrew's...
#BetterThanCanada: Our Plan for Crowdfunded Universal Healthcare
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. -- John F. Kennedy JFK's most famous line, spoken at his presidential inauguration in 1961, is often bandied about as an admonition to serve your government...
Guest Post by Matthew Barton – And If I Tell You the Name of the Song I’ll Be Banned by Facebook
Watch us turn into eagles that fly. Look in my eyes, people realise... You must mobilise... -- from "Fag" by Matthew Barton The first thing I saw in my mind when I wrote "Fag" was an army. Well, a kind of army. I saw a growing band of rainbow warriors, poised to turn...
Sea Grapes – A Little More Sunshine
In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again... As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden. -- Chance the Gardener, Being There...
My Dad – and His Typewriter – Fought in the War on Poverty
And this administration today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in America... The richest nation on earth can afford to win it. We cannot afford to lose it. -- Lyndon Johnson, 1964 This is the richest country on Earth and we have 40 million in...
The Soods – Hard To Conceal
Eons ago, during the Obama Administration, I stood in the checkout line of a CVS drugstore in a small Georgia town whose most thriving industry, as far as I could tell, was the selling of title loans. The woman in front of me, with a modest cart full of goods, was...
