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What Always Returns: On Baseball and War

W.P. Kinsella wrote that the one constant through all the years has been baseball. It may be one constant, but I’m reluctantly starting to think it’s not the only one.

March 27, 2026 in 5) History, by Nick Allison, Chaos Sports.

Chaos Sports Report: Steroids & The Mute Button

“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here!” ~ Claude Rains as Capt. Louis Renault in Casablanca. It’s one of my favorite movie scenes ever, and makes me laugh each time it crosses my mind. For the benefit of those who have not seen one of the most famous flicks ever, and…

August 6, 2013 in by Willie B. Lakey, Chaos Sports.

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“We were angry and righteous in those days, and there were millions of us. We kicked two chief executives out of the White House because they were stupid warmongers. We conquered Lyndon Johnson and we stomped on Richard Nixon… Our tribe was strong like a river. That river is still running. All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.”
— Hunter S. Thompson,
Rolling Stone, November 11, 2004

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“Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”
- Terence McKenna, attributed

"In the end, McKenna, the Stoics, Buddhists, Taoists, and Heraclitus are all pointing us toward the same truth: to live fully, we must learn to dance with chaos, not run from it. We must let go of our rigid need for control and open ourselves to the wild, untamed, and unpredictable flow of life. Only then can we truly understand the deeper currents that shape our existence, the very sections of life where chaos and order intertwine."
- The Fear of Letting Go: Ego’s Struggle for Control

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