But You Wanna Live the Good Life — “It’s the Good Life, full of fun, seems to be the ideal…” “Dickie, I have to work through the whole week.” She said she didn’t want to be a housewife, so she got a job at a large retailer that wants to make changes, but hasn’t the slightest idea how…

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Those lusty Ukrainian women…tempting those Russian fighter boys with all these proposals of marriage, undying love, and telephone calls at 10 dollars per minute, have helped the UAF position their forces. As an idiot in a state of grief over the death of his Ukrainian father (a long story in…

The Spanish, the Maya, and Social Control It is said by the ancients and the wise that there is no more disturbing a vision than one’s reflection in the mirror of one’s own enemies. As I was watching another hit piece about the utter genocide of the Maya by their…

Well, congratulations are due to you because you already are. And are not. Tormenting, isn’t it? And you deserve it all. For one, because this perfectly imperfect universe has holographically imprinted both its perfection and imperfection onto you, you get to feel the difference between the idea of perfection and…

A poem about war, dubious victory and PTSD

Four Calling Birds Later… Seven Swans a-swimming and six geese a-laying. I guess that means seven more shopping days until the end of what was. Well, six, now. The number seven is a popular spiritual number, showing up in religious and spiritual texts across many cultures and at many times. No less than 507…

“The Truth will set you free, but first it is going to really f*k up your life.” — Anonymous The Swedish government, by far, has the most advanced forensic capabilities of any other country in the Baltic Sea region. …

As an ancestral Texan, by way of Texas, then Oklahoma, then California, then back again, let me just say that I am familiar with firearms, their power, and their complete uselessness when it comes to cooking a good brisket, the proper punctuation of a sentence, the spelling of words in…