Category Archive for 'War'

Talking Head

Learned something new today: I am a talking head. That’s right. I who have spent 25 years writing have been tossed onto the vacuous nincompoop heap, an empty brain with chattering gums, spouting off and doing a little dance for the amusement of others. Pull a chord and watch me go – wheeee! I Am [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]