by Anne Kapp I will be the sonof fathers good and bad.I will be the dadsomeone never had. I will be the laborerin factories big and small.I will climb and fall,and mortar my own wall. I will be the madmanin a suit of eccentricity,drowning in publicity—only true friends can find me. I will be the…
“Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.” ~ HL Mencken, 1955 He was just another stranger at the bar when the afternoon began, something of an educator before it ended. We’ve only crossed paths twice more in about…
“Go f@(k yourself!” Like me, you may have heard it a million times. As a small boy hearing it from the teenagers on the school bus to the days of a pissed off Afghan national who was past ready for my uniformed ass to get the hell out of his country, I had no…
“Lightning seems to have lost its menace. Compared to what is going on on earth today, heaven’s firebrands are penny fireworks with wet fuses.” ~ EB White, One Man’s Meat by Willie B. Lakey Eight hundred left turns. Sounds simple enough, although we know otherwise. I have no idea how many left turns I’ve made…
Editor’s Note: This week we bring you a guest post from a good friend of ours, Glenn Horowitz. Glenn writes an opinion column over at The American Daily Herald and also maintains his own personal blog, Get Glenn Mobile. -CS By Glenn Horowitz I’ve been thinking about a fitting subject for a first submission to…
by Willie B. Lakey “Nobody fucks with the Jesus.” ~ John Turturro as Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski It’s times like Wednesday that can really drive a gambler crazy, along with setting a good example of why it’s so tough to beat Las Vegas. Not that I’m encouraging anyone to gamble, nor am I basing this…
by Justin Nafziger “Well we all have a face, That we hide away forever And we take them out and, Show ourselves When everyone has gone, Some are satin some are steel Some are silk and some are leather, They’re the faces of the stranger But we love to try them on” The Stranger, Billy…
by Justin Nafziger I have observed that people confuse various adjacent terms and ideas as equivalent. Belief and conviction for example, while they may overlap are not one and the same. Another oft misconstrued association is mixing morality, integrity and ethics. To be sure, they do interact heavily, but one and the same they are…
by Justin Nafziger This was written near the 2012 holiday season; however, the points are every bit as valid today, and it doesn’t have to be the holiday consumer rush for this stuff to be relevant. Time Is Not Money You know the old adage, “time is money”? Well, it’s wrong. Time isn’t money, and…
by Cynthia Cone If one good thing has come from my mother’s death, I would say that in the wake of her passing I have somehow managed to find a deeper meaning to my own life. My mother and I had a very complicated yet symbiotic relationship. Being the child of an alcoholic is not…
The emperor has no clothes, throwing rocks from his glass house. Atop his ivory towers, watching each quiet church mouse. Oppressing the subjects with his greedy dictates of self-serving proclamations for power. Thieving slight of hand from behind his holy veil; sanctimonious stench, sheep-skinned wolf, thorny dying flower. The royal lighthouse goes dim, but the…
by Cynthia Cone The problem with movements is that movements start to lose, I think quite often, sight of humanity, of human beings as individuals. – Ian Mackaye While I believe that the intended end results of certain social movements are necessary, especially in a world where evolution is constantly taking place, I also agree…
“Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion.” ~ Mark Twain “If you are really bothered by gay people getting married, you’re an asshole. End of fucking story.” ~ Joe Rogan I served as a squad leader in the U.S. Army Infantry, including a combat tour during the early stages of the…
As a general rule, or perhaps guideline, we don’t repost articles from other sites here at Chaos Section; Our stories are all original works by members of our little family. But in the case of Tomas Young’s letter, I felt that we had to make an exception. I think that it’s important for Tomas’s words…
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