There was recently a lucid think piece in, of all places,the New Yorker, reviewing several current books touching on crime and violence in America - the place what I am in.   Many of these try to devise a plausible story about why our badness quotient is so murderously high.  As . . . (More)

 (Owed to Xaos) The Olympic Games are apparently coming to Vancouver, and since Seattle - presumably due to its putative moral superiority and boundless smugness - seems to consider itself Canadian, there is some buzz on local TV.  Mostly, there are amateurish spots hyping local athletes who are b . . . (More)

  Time is not money. This was, I admit with some embarrassment, an epiphany.  I have a job, and I'm earning money, but I want time.  We sell our time for money, but whoever has time has more than someone who has traded the same time for any amount of money.  So they are not members of the same . . . (More)

  Moses supposes That Moses has gnosis; What Moses supposes is wrong. What Mo supposes, Sid diagnoses; Siddhartha's dharma is strong. Jesus would please us If all were like Jesus And pharisees had Jesus' logos. But Constantine constantly Cons the constabulary; Beloved in Christ, t . . . (More)

DISCLAIMER:  A wise man once said that Beer + Coffee = Removing the Volume Control.  You have been warned.DISCLAIMER THE SECOND:  I am going to attempt an invasion of the South over the next week, so I will be on hiatus during this time. DISCLAIMER THE THIRD:  Jesus was way cool.  Leave me al . . . (More)

Apparently, Seattle's love of animals does not extend beyond mammals.It has been a commonplace in our home for some years that local TV news shows love to open with a story about a sick baby and end with a story about a dog. This has held true through the several places I have prev . . . (More)

 I am vaguely comforted by the thought that we were all fucked into existence. (Well, most of us anyway.)Was it as good for you as it was for me? Tags: Everything ; Nothing ; Memoirs ; Whatever  . . . (More)

 Gee, it's nice to know that someone who understands the youth of today is willing to take a daring stand on behalf of the values of the Sixties (for money).  Witness, therefore, Lenny Kravitz shilling for Kohl's and Levi's in the name of Love - specifically, in the name of a Love Revolut . . . (More)

 I wish you all had one neck, and my hands were around it.                - Carl PanzramNews flash!!  This just in!!!!!Barack Obama loves his wife, and his children, and his parents, and America, and God and shit!And also he has children!  They love him back!  Also his wife!And he is in . . . (More)

 It's become the most elephantine of elephants in the living room - and the Lord knows that we have plenty of those, these days.  (Did you know that the American family is held together by money and incest?  Oops.  Move along - nothing to see here.)  In fact, of all the mammals infesting all . . . (More)