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A Wink is as Good as a Nod to a Blind Horse

Power working behind the scenes used to be so much more subtle. The pancake make-up was barely lifted from the president’s increasingly haggard-looking face after last night’s speech before the New York Times was providing cover on the left in an article that seeks to soften the president’s image for those who are both ill-informedContinue reading “A Wink is as Good as a Nod to a Blind Horse”

Dogs and Fish

A Sunday long ago.When I was a kid sometimes on a weekend I used to let our dogs out late at night to roam the swath of vacant lots and abandoned houses in our neighborhood. One Sunday I went out into the delicate, sense quickening chill and stillness of early morning to collect them. IContinue reading “Dogs and Fish”

Cruel to be Kind

Mickey Kaus makes a good point about the specious “cruelty” of a border fence: A border wall or fence, widely denounced as the crude favored scheme of the meanest, yahoo, Know-Nothing elements of the Republican House, is in fact the most compassionate enforcement solution. A wall intrinsically blocks only new entrants. It’s a physical grandfatherContinue reading “Cruel to be Kind”

Formal Apology

First off let me say that I’m well and uninjured. I’m sorry if my last post alarmed any of you. This is all very embarrassing for me. It seems I overestimated the impact of Monday’s May Day immigrant boycott. I may have overreacted. Please understand, I have a family to protect, and when I learnedContinue reading “Formal Apology”

Live Blogging the Apocalypse

The following blog entries were discovered after the arrest and detention of an obscure blogger of uncertain means who was responsible for a bizarre episode of violence triggered by a stress induced onset of hallucinatory mental illness. It seems the aforementioned blogger grew increasingly agitated and fearful as the May 1, 2006 boycott in supportContinue reading “Live Blogging the Apocalypse”

May Day! May Day! May Day!

If anyone is left out there to get this message, please help. The nationwide boycott of American commerce by our indispensable keepers and maintainers, Our People of the Noble Working Mass, the Latino immigrants, is wreaking havoc here in Seattle.At first it seemed that everything was no different. Things almost seemed…normal. But then it allContinue reading “May Day! May Day! May Day!”

Blight of the Living Dead

David Brooks’ column last Wednesday, The Death of Multiculturalism (Times Select), offers a belated obituary for identity politics. Not so fast. Don’t cue the bagpipes just yet, or perhaps more appropriately the oud, didgeridoo, Native American square drums, and whatever more it takes to complete a cacophonous orchestra arrayed by means of painstaking cultural inclusion.Continue reading “Blight of the Living Dead”

Iran, I Ran So Far Away

For or about ideas men fight no more.Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the WestOil. Oil is behind, or perhaps I should say beneath, it all. Sure, it’s not quite that simple, but when you come right down to it; oil. Let’s prevaricate no further.But first a mea culpa.I was wrong. I’ve been railing away hereContinue reading “Iran, I Ran So Far Away”

Youth’s Idyll, V

Part I ; Part II ; Part III ; Part IV“So you’re going to tell it?”“Yeah.”“And why the hell would you do that? What do you hope to accomplish? Are you one of these exhibitionist types who thinks his experience is so remarkable?”“No. My experience is unexceptional.”“Then why tell it? Are you special? You thinkContinue reading “Youth’s Idyll, V”

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Trudging through white-out conditions against stinging needles of snow slashing at a horizontal angle, feeling as if they are cutting right through you, you make out in the faded distance a dark speck. You determinedly put your head down and make for it, your upper body at a forty five degree angle as if youContinue reading “…”