“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
Y ou Can Listen Here On Election Day I felt as if I were caught between vast air masses, green-cloud storms pushing up from the southwest into a fair-weather high meeting its fury — convergences of feelings so dissimilar as to produce a kind of vertigo, an experience of both pride and a deeper, more encompassing dread than I have ever felt before. Even 9/11 did not produce such a sense of grievous alarm […]
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Y ou Can Listen Here I have friends who will vote for the man. They will remain my friends after this election, even if Trump wins. They may have to travel to visit me in whatever American Gulag I am assigned by whichever maniac he chooses to lead the Justice Department, but maybe he will farm out those who left a written record of their opposition to his election to his bro Putin who […]
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Y ou Can Listen Here Sixty four and out of the classroom for 6 years — now I learn about cappuccinos, frappuccinos, frothing the milk until it might be spooned from the pitcher to the cup. How to order the rows, clean the counter, tong the cookies that I must not touch. How to follow the new program: inventory here. Register under sales. Role the Z tape. Count for the coffer. Count for the […]
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Y ou Can Listen Here Misogyny is an Escher print come into motion and then twisted so that its surface refutes any clean application of moral logic. It is power exercised in spaces devoid of rules and thus without places of sanctuary. For some men, women are enemies or tools, subordinate subsets of humanity to either be opposed or used. In the discordant perceptions and judgments of misogyny, if a woman resists her subordinate […]
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