Thompson reaches from the grave.

The noisy B terminal of Memphis International is busy for a Monday evening. A man in fatigues sits with his wife and they argue between frantic phone calls about how to get to Daytona before their sanity runs out. Their back and forth is a lyrical battle; between no nonsense midwestern from her and lilting [...]

Slow slide to the end.

It’s a very interesting time in history to be alive.
Everyone seems to know the end is coming. If you stop trying so hard to ignore it, the signs are everywhere. Business drying up, people who havn’t been deemed “too big to fail” going belly up under the crushing weight of the market and it’s downward [...]

Election 08′: Taking a stress break.

So. I’m doing my best not to obsess over election coverage. I’ve been forcing myself to take breaks. I got a link to something that I felt I should share, since we could all use a good laugh right about now.

The End Of An Era: Notes on how to weather the impending storm of post-election violence.

“It is astounding to hear rightwing talkshow bloviators rant about the predicament of the Bush administration being caused by its failure to carry out the true conservative agenda. For there never has been and never will be a more doctrinally faithful instrument of the creed.”

- Simon Schama, “Nowhere Man: A Farewell To Dubya, All-Time Loser [...]

I came to my senses and had a feeling (Change 08)

Like expressive astronomy, neon noise pollution
helps the navigation of the midnight revolution
a lost sea of never was and could have been
Lied to, bet against, and covered in sin
Generation lost
But look what they found
Not so much hope and a shade left of green
can’t help that everything turns mean
verse is walking with rhythm, attracts the worm
the beat [...]

Stop Fighting It. (And why I don’t want to hear it anymore)

I’m sick and tired of people who still consider grass roots movements to be a laughing matter. Or worse yet, still clinging to the ragged popular myth that ‘they don’t work’.
Welcome to 2007, neanderthals. They work.

Oil’s Fair In Love and War

So, it has come to this.
Through study and observance of what is NOT being said by both parties in the American political system, I have reached a disturbing conclusion. For all the talk of Iraq being a mess, for all the talk of bringing troops home, for all the talk of it not making us [...]

Silence is Death

When you think of the reason America’s founding fathers left merry old England, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?

How I Learned To Start Caring

Main Entry: gov·ern·ment
Pronunciation: ‘g&-v&r(n)-m&nt, -v&-m&nt; ‘g&-b&m-&nt, -v&m-
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
1 : the act or process of governing; specifically : authoritative direction or control
2 Greek translation : “control of the mind”
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