The United States of Conspiracy… This is some messed shit goin’ on in America. “Anna Merlan, a journalist who has covered conspiracy theories and misinformation for years, is blunt. “The conspiracy caught fire because people were uncomfortable with the idea of a Black president, and they were eager to believe any number of racist smears […]
Category: Health
Has It Really Come to This?
The story has been told and retold: Ben Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when a lady asked him…. “Well, Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy? Franklin, “A republic, if you can keep it.“ But that’s not the end of the story which most […]
Mantra
This may be nothing new nothing at all or nothing now you need to take to heart, whatever it is to you it will mean nothing until realized: with billions of minds, hearts savage wills pulling at the seams of reality it’s a wonder the whole doesn’t tear open spill out into riots, revolutions, war, […]
Hymn to the Deadliest Weapon on Earth
Humor is the weapon of mass reduction, It reduces bigot to nit-wit, snob to bore The trendy cynic to last year’s unfriendly pessimist. It’ll take the nay out of naysayer Cure the terminal doubter and saw down denial like dead wood. It refuses to go away Cannot be destroyed by fire or flood Stands up […]
Beware of Animals
When as a boy I went to play My grandma use to say to me: The only animals you must fear Are the two legged ones my dear. Nights I used a flashlight But I’m tellin’ you brother Knowin’ good from the other Is still a hard thing to do They all look alike outside the […]
Questionnaire
Questionnaire How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade? Please name your preferred poisons. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do? Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred. What sacrifices […]
Bedtime Prayer
Soma, Zany, vodka sweet Now I lay me down to sleep I pray that death will not come That would be pretty dumb To die alone without a friend Would be a bitter wasted end. But if I die before I wake I did my best for fuck sake I don’t know where I’m goin’ […]
Making Room
Make room for a quiet sound, take a broom to your heart, sweep distractions away clear away notions and fear, let the sound sweep through you, a wave washing sand let the silence between two waves find you Wander in mind without care, be the wonder of a day lily opening slowly, the voice not […]
The Truth is
for Joey Think of unreality an angel dying, a god being born. The walls of the waiting room are like the nurses flat and white. They lean ready to fall– Sleep…I dream you rising from hell to a heaven of your own. There can be no […]
Ecstasy at Salmon Creek
We make the sun burn between us free as mountain air A warm wide rock to lie on Deeper than any bed, a pleasure nest innocent as maidenhair The turk’s cap and columbine, we make them bloom Wild orchid and lobelia Never more pure nor alive than the moment trout leap And quail fly up the […]
