In the daytime the radio’s scared of me, Cause I’m mad, cause I’m the enemy, They can’t come on and play me in primetime, Cause I know the time, plus I’m gettin’ mine.” I was seventeen years old in 1989 when I first heard the sound of Public Enemy reverberating through the speakers in my…
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If you’re looking for a Messiah, you will eventually get one. Then, you’ll find out that you didn’t actually get a savior, but rather fell prey to a really good con. But, it’s okay; most human beings do. There really doesn’t have to be any shame for those who realize we’ve been duped, unless one…
Bradley Manning March. June 1st, 2013. So it’s 7:34 AM and I made it to the bus on time. I had to get up at 4:30 to catch the LIRR into NYC then walk to the meeting point from Penn Station, which thankfully was not very far. Luckily, I did not encounter any hiccups along…
“I’m proud we are standing up for religious freedom in our state. Freedom of religion doesn’t mean freedom from religion.” ~ Rick Perry 13 June 2013 Rick Perry, who has been the governor of Texas for what feels like an eternity, signed the “Merry Christmas Bill” into law today. The bill—HB 308—authored by Rep. Dwayne…
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…
