Feb 8, 2025: The Rebirth of a Nation
Sean MurphyFebruary 8, 1915: "The Birth of a Nation" opens in L.A., glorifying the KKK. (More via History.Com.) 110 years ago. Narrative. This movie was not only a "reflection of the…
Big Balls
See, in order to finally infiltrate the DEEP STATE, rectify decades of waste and mismanagement, and shut down entire departments that research and provide meds for disease, we needed to…
It’s All About Narrative, Always
In politics if you're explaining you're losing, but if you're being explained, you're lost. i. Emerging from a mysterious bout of food poisoning (and, I reckon, all bouts are mysterious…
2025: Focus on Sanity
Obviously I think the world would be a more enlightened, happy, and peaceful place if more folks listened to jazz, and I'm content to convert as many lost souls as…
Jimmy Carter
There are two primary things history has taught us to regard with wariness: power and faith. With good reason, we distrust those who gain (or worse, are born with) unreasonable…
The Problem with the Homeless Problem
i. A question. Who was he? I think the same question each time I see him (once a week, sometimes more often): the same man in the same spot, holding the same…
Countervailing Forces
Since there are no coincidences (but maybe Fate, Irony, & Karma high-five at times) this poem, written a while back (during—without putting too fine a point on it—a time when…
On Broken Heels (x 2)
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 04: Muscian Sonny Rollins arrives at the 34th Kennedy Center Honors held at the Kennedy Center Hall of States on December 4, 2011 in Washington, DC.…
Born in the U.S.A. at 40: The Boss Before, During, After
i. Before Deliver Me From Nowhere Perhaps because of what followed—the next album, the acclaim—Springsteen’s decision to make the ultimate lo-fi album seems even more prescient, appropriate, and perfect. If Darkness…
2/26/12: A Poem for Trayvon Martin
On this day in History: On February 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin, an African American teen walking home from a trip to a convenience store, is fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a…