Every Good Morning

An ongoing crisis has been created by the collapse of the Republican Party into factions poisonous to reason, comity. compromise and discourse. The Party now combines Christian Nationalists, an OK-Fascist amalgamation of “clowns with flamethrowers,” * Anti-Semites, militia creeps, opportunist politicians – always the gutless ambitious, incels, Putin apologists and lovers, the always present white supremacists and Tech-Boy Ayn Rand fans, a vast assortment of those looking to park their […]

I taught any number of young men and women who volunteered for the Armed Forces upon graduating – as far as I can remember, they covered every branch: Navy, Coast Guard, Army, Air Force and the Marines, but more Marines than any other branch. For 18-year old’s, I suspect that the romance of that Service is compelling. Many came back to talk with me after Boot Camp, after deployments, after […]

Once upon a time the story goes, and from there the laws of the normal world change – magic replaces what is real, and sometimes power falls into the grasp of a sorcerer, and the land falls under a spell. Sorcerers possess the gift of shapeshifting. They have confidence in their ability to use their magic to evade disaster or to turn their corruption into gold.  I’ve begun to think […]