Category Archive for 'War'

Burn, Baby. Burn.

Burn, baby. Burn! It’s coming soon to a housing tract near you, and maybe even your own: wildfires, hot and raging house eaters, burning down McMansions and wrecking every lawn from Moreno Valley to Anaheim, Ca. Thanks to global warming, we live in a time where wild and crazy weather is what we can expect [...]

Cheaters

These are Dark Days in the Shining Cities of Bush America. Lights go out early; and the good people shutter their windows, pull down their blinds and keep a watch for shadows, flickering in fire and black on blacker walls, and pray that They Do Not Stop. You don’t want them to stop. They stopped [...]

Smokin’

If I could, I would smoke for the rest of my life. Not because I enjoy it; and not because it makes me cool, and certainly not because my friends are doing it. I simply started a long, long, time ago and now it is as much a part of who I am as my [...]

Hey Maaaan, what are YOU doing on my freeway? I didn’t see the car until it was too late. He–I’m sure the kids who sat in the backseat called him Daddy, or Pops, or something–was apparently trying to get off the freeway without waiting his turn. To do so, he swooped down from the fast [...]

Mayberry is Burning

There is something very wrong with us. While we fiddle about Merry Christmas, someone is murdered and her baby taken from her womb. While we fume about gay marriage, a woman dies in the heartland and a Christian conductor in the suburbs of California takes his own life. Happy Holidays. It’s late in the game [...]