what were the pilgrims if not a rag-tag group of disobedient religious do-it-yourselfers? were the participants of the boston tea party anything more than unruly tax dodgers? can more be said about the so-called founding fathers than they were bourgeois burgermeisters seizing the opportunity as american fools to steal the king’s thorny crown of [...]

man and himself expressed for himself, about himself and made into an artifact for his pleasure rightly is called art. a paleolithic frank scrawling a record of experience on a cave wall so as to stop time and space for himself is genuinely artistic whereas the claptrap of the historically defined artist is nothing more [...]

what a friendly lot this group is! kudos to mom for refraining from profanity while expressing herself, alas it seems that her offspring didn’t quite retain any maternal family values but rather takes after dear old dad. evidently vulgarity starts at home and though great the temptation is to needlessly devolve to expressing profanities, so [...]

let it no longer be said that the united states is part of the western world for a society’s criminal justice system reflects its weltanschauung and the good ol’ u.s of a. is obviously more culturally attuned to african and asian penal practices than the old world’s. minor aberrations of dogma aside such as the [...]

what trying times! must this age be one of such great disingenuity? human rights and foreign policy? children and politics? environmentally-friendly and business? brains and beauty? which one of these doesn’t go with the other…perhaps all of them? this isn’t like bringing chocolate and peanut butter together but shit and brains. sure, have your cake [...]

more than four score and seven years ago the american expression of opposition to taxes meant going native and polluting the nearest harbor with caffeine or moving to tennetucky to distill spirits. rugged individualism found expression in the trafficking and ownership of human flesh or the systematic eradication of the indigenous population or an okie [...]

…and don henley should know, being in the eagles.

“you missed a very dull tv show on auschwitz. more gruesome film clips, and more puzzled intellectuals declaring their mystification over the systematic murder of millions. the reason they can never answer the question ‘how could it possibly happen?’ is that it’s the wrong question. given what people are, the question is “why doesn’t it [...]

how can the popularity of police procedurals, medical dramas and courtroom thrillers be explained? is murder entertainment? clearly this is so, but can the same be said of justice and surgery? apparently body mechanics, the science of semen-soaked chalk outlines and the interpretative defense and prosecution of the associated crimes and malpractices of the first [...]

“religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. it is the opium of the people”
what can a dirty little german mind come up with next? nothing in comparison to american ingenuity! comrade karl must be turning in his grave with the bourgeois party [...]