“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
You Can Listen Here Shakespeare knew of other Trumps. In King Lear, Regan says of her father, “Tis the infirmity of his age, yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself.” Trump comes into office riding a wave of adrenaline, of enormous rallies of cheering supporters who love his brand of anarchy, his wealth, his refusal to be hemmed in by convention. He comes into office riding his wave of promises and his destruction […]
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You Can Listen Here Conquest by Hugh Thomas is the history of the defeat of the Aztec Empire (hereafter called the Mexica) by Spanish Conquistadors under the command of Hernando Cortes in 1519 through 1521. It is the story of one empire ascending, the Spanish, and one at its peak and perhaps beginning its decline, the Mexica, whose gold and land in its fall fed the explosive growth of power in those who had subdued […]
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You Can Listen Here The draw of a moment, of a song, can be so strong as to be overwhelming — the surge of one colossal wave stunning the stable, rational land. A Vincent Black Lightning, 1952 For years I have thought of this trip: atop a badass motorcycle (o not an old-man-relaxed-waistband-jeans kind of bike but a bruiser), on back roads in the West, through the plains, along the upper Missouri past Wolf […]
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You Can Listen Here Perhaps it is the certainty that out there in the quiet, plush corners of the Republic deals are being made that have nothing to do with any kind of greater good but only serve avarice. Everywhere, in those now in power, there exists a willed denial of the harm being done to life, human and flora and fauna. Perhaps it is the weariness, only 100 days in, that this President […]
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