Commentary
Remembering the Battle of Ramadi
artwork by Josh Chambers author requests to remain anonymous In 2004, starting on April 6th and running through the 10th, the Battle of Ramadi raged. It has been called the heaviest urban warfare American forces have seen since Vietnam by some historians. By the end of the battle, 13 of […]
Hunter, Henson & The Great Gonzo
By Ashley Beth In this post-counter culture age, where the Druggery and Decadence of the Sixties, or as my generation sees it, the Designated Play Time our parents got to enjoy, resulted with Nixon signing a federal Controlled Substance Act in 1970; the name Hunter S Thompson seems to be […]
Reality Quiz for Americans
By Kyle K. Mann 1) The reason we are fighting in the Middle East is: a. Greedy males want money and power b. Greedy females compel males to fight for money and power c. Because of hideous aliens with amazing powers d. Frighteningly meaningless when […]
A Trip Down Abortion Lane
By April S. Kelley It must have been four years ago when I terminated my pregnancy. I remember it fondly. Yes, fondly. I was living in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I had a two-year-old daughter. I was on the pill — the fucking pill; never trust the goddamn pill. I was […]
Vietnam Plus 40: I Feel Sick
By Kyle K. Mann I’m sitting here looking at my beautiful view, distressed and angry. 40 years ago today the Vietnam War ended. We have learned nothing. Nothing!
THE ROOT OF HATE AND CONFLICT
By Mik Glasser As children most of us were told “Don’t Discuss Politics or Religion” The spin put on that phrase is that we should not engage others who do not have the same belief and values systems as we were taught by our family and our immediate peer group circle. […]
Pathological Liars
Or: the weird way in which our society functions By: Mark Linnhoefer “It’s a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what” “Dying people lie, too. Wish they’d worked less, they’d been nicer, they’d opened orphanages for kittens. If you really want to […]
Whims of the Great Magnet
By: David Pratt We left at 10:00 and drove all night, out of Massachusetts, through Connecticut, and across New York in pouring rain, thunderstorms, lightning crash flashing snap glimpses of the pitch black road barely seen through storm and stoned headlight searching, into a miles-long construction site with one tight lane and a great […]
The Candidates are Coming
artwork copyright© 2015 joeyfeldman, all rights reserved www.joeyfeldman.com By: David Pratt If a picture’s worth a thousand words, then Feldman’s soul-churning rendition of two of our 2016 presidential candidates goes a long way to illustrating the fear & loathing that has me contemplating expatriating to Iceland of all places. And I hate […]