Some will remember that John McCain’s vaunted independence once included more than just a sneering disregard for conservative concerns and bullying impatience with opposition to the neo-liberal economic orthodoxy that is his path of least resistance to power–notably skepticism toward liberal intervention and nation-building. Those days are of course long gone, and the man’s storyContinue reading “Maverick Jettisons the Constitution”
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Cougar Mounting Paranoia
The address she gave for our meeting turned out to be one of those pedestrian chain-restaurant/nightspots that perform the unsung service of keeping America’s atomized middle class breeding, if barely.I found it in an acid-yellow and dun colored building tucked into the armpit created by a loud and forbidding freeway on-ramp on one side andContinue reading “Cougar Mounting Paranoia”
The Last Romantics
MGMT, Time to Pretend I’m feeling rough, I’m feeling raw, I’m in the prime of my life.Let’s make some music, make some money, find some models for wives.I’ll move to Paris, shoot some heroin, and fuck with the stars.You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars. This is our decision, to liveContinue reading “The Last Romantics”
There’s a Draft in Here
This is the mucked-up initial draft of my most recent article in The American Conservative. I’m assuming it’s okay to post it here, seeing as the print issue is ancient by today’s hyper-paced blog-influenced standards: Rebates and Cheap DatesTo walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money,Continue reading “There’s a Draft in Here”
Dennis, still alive, after a fashion
I intend to resume real writing here soon, as well as the fictional thread over at Storyboard. Sanity and order are reasserting control and even now are rapidly reclaiming the psychological territory lost to the rebel forces of sloth and intemperance over the last few months. They advanced quickly but cannot hold their gains, asContinue reading “Dennis, still alive, after a fashion”
Alternative America Phrasebook
“Your guide to the idiom of mass delusion” Bush Derangement Syndrome, neoconservative neologism,1. The inability to sublimate the disdain felt for a criminally incompetent president.2. Outrage at the crimes and incompetence of same.3. Undue veneration for the Constitution, the rule of law, truth, common decency, or good sense during the period between January 20, 2001Continue reading “Alternative America Phrasebook”
Unreal, indeed
Read my article on the government’s tax rebate scheme,”Unreality Check”, in real ink on real paper (unavailable online) in the May 19 issue of the American Conservative. Featuring also these more authentic writers:The Next FidelBy Peter HitchensHugo Chavez’s socialist program drives Venezuela to the brink of dictatorship. When the Left Was Rightby Bill KauffmanBefore theContinue reading “Unreal, indeed”
The Chemical Brothers, Let Forever Be (dir. by Michael Gondry)
We’re Number One!
When the raised middle finger became a salute may have been the moment the momentum of aggregated self-indulgence crested, and we began our final decline. When rappers and others started flipping off the camera, making “screw you” the desultory greeting of a generation, the Apocalypse had to be near. It had better be, preferable asContinue reading “We’re Number One!”
Quiet. Too, Too Quiet
Even as it seems some sort of strike on Iran is not just inevitable but imminent, proof of widespread Iranian arming of Shi’ite militias is still the dog that hasn’t barked. Via Laura Rosen, here the LAT’s Tina Susman reports on a conspicuous absence: There was something interesting missing from Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner’s introductoryContinue reading “Quiet. Too, Too Quiet”
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