Category: Feature
That Great Sucking Sound
There is a meme/reel going around Facebook contrasting Pat Robertson, who was gassing on about the Creator punishing the wicked, and Frank Zappa gassing on about how doom-predicting tax-exempt pastors were fleecing the public.
Augustine’s Confessions Book IV (9/26)
Augustine begins the book by repudiating the liberal doctrines, false religion, sooth-saying, and astrology, but admits that he was attracted by all of them except the fortune-tellers who demanded sacrifices to daimonia.
San Francisco Bay Blues, Part 2: Chinese Guy, Ron Ronson, and The Armenians
These days, dishwashers are usually wearing headphones, which are a kind of progressive lobotomy, but in those days, they just minded their own business and could think their own thoughts, while as a waiter, I had to deal not just with cranky and befuddled old people, burnt out shells of what had once been human beings but with my fellow-waiters, most of whom were even less appealing.
Ignorant Bliss,
Revolutionary leftists are forever praising European social policies to the skies and condemning the rednecks who despise foreigners and the Americans who respect them without knowing one significant fact about any country, tradition, or person in any European country.
A Garden Variety Revolutionary
But no American political leader has displayed the revolutionary mania for renaming so openly as Donald Trump.
Shreds and Patches: A San Francisco Bay Blues Parenthesis, Part One
had by the age of 21 had enough experience of beats, Bohemians, and hippies to satisfy any cravings for the counter-culture
Republicans Still Hate the South
Is anyone else tired of “conservative” Republicans like Ted Cruz, who are forever blaming the Democratic party for the KKK?
Ray Olson on Film: The 1980s
You could say that the 1980s were just more of the 1970s, as far as the movies went. Hollywood got lamer, the indies kept American cinema alive and interesting, past masters were retiring or dying.
The International Academy of Laputa
All of this is the background to the recent scandal over the death, apparently suicide, of Jason Ardray at Cambridge University.
