Category Archive for 'War'

Loyalty is a Dying Bird

Loyalty is a dying bird. Cast to the earth by the flung rocks of instant gratification and our incessant flavor of the moment obsession, to be loyal is to be past tense, out of it and just plain inferior. Get what you want now. Do it now. Be it now. Waiting is for whiners and [...]

Heart of a Champion

When a multi-millionaire superstar shows what he really plays for – to win, as a team – why, anything is possible. In an era of pouts and steroids, this is why sports still matter: because anything is possible – just keep moving toward your goals!

Hang Him High

When they get around to it, they’ll hang poor old Sammy high on the tallest tree left standing in Baghdad. The people will see the soles of his shoes, and he’ll sway like a bag of laundry in the hot desert breeze until they take him down – which could be hours later, after the [...]

Drinking Pee

The ape was clearly having a good time. Putting on a show, shouting and flailing his long arms, climbing up the branches of the Big Tree in his glass-encased little paradise. He was the joker, it was clear; the King being the fat one with his back to the people, sitting on the ground and [...]

One, two, three…

Memo to Judge Fink: the next time you get a curveball in the courtroom, count to 20 before you open your trap. On a choking hot day in the So Cal, Fink, a sub-judge in Los Angeles Superior Court, was presiding over a mundane, boring, run of the mill restraining order case when the bombshell [...]