By: Alex Severino I rented a room in the Sam Culbertson Mansion last night and the only mark of me left after the checkout was my purple wine insignia splatter painted across the ceiling Shattered the poor bottle in a stand up glass case Half in my stomach and the rest […]
Art by kristjan By: Kyle K. Mann They almost wouldn’t let me check in at the Westwood Holiday Inn. I was dressed in faded jeans and a Hawaiian shirt, and didn’t have a credit card. Having had little sleep in days didn’t help my looks or attitude. And I was […]
Or: perpetual warfare is the new black By: Mark Linnhoefer These past weeks have been pretty hard on my heart, to be honest. It seems every time I decide to sit down and read some news, I come across some statement so incredibly, dangerously stupid that it makes me cringe. […]
By: Donnie Casto II “I hear the train a comin’ It’s rolling round the bend, And I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when, I’m stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin’ on.” – Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues On September 6, 2006, President George W. Bush admitted […]
artwork by Steven Joseph Osuchowski by Eric Pahel My flight had landed, and after a short detainment to determine the nature of my stay and check for any past associations which may have implicated me in some past deviance, I was permitted to continue. While they were unable to find any suspicious associations, they […]
By: Rick Kepler Senator Herod Foghorn sat behind his senatorial desk, his aides at his senatorial side, at-the-ready to address his senatorial commands. “Did the call come in yet?” he inquired of his staff. “Goddam it, he’s already called the leaders from the other side. I’m the goddam majority leader. […]
Or: why can‘t we learn from the past? by Mark Linnhoefer It seems like just yesterday that Snowden blew the whistle on the NSA, and yet it also seems like it never happened at all. At least that is the feeling I got when I heard that the Cyber Intelligence […]
by Cody S. Decker Being silent on paper makes it louder than hell in my head
by Rick Kepler I felt like Charlie in the Chocolate Factory, except only one “golden ticket” was stuffed in a loaf of cheap white bread, and I, the holder of that ticket, won the prize, the opportunity to interview the masters of the universe, the top one per centers in […]
by Kidman J. Williams The last fifteen years in the United States must have brought tears to the eyes of Lady Liberty; thank the Heavens that her back is turned to the rest of the countries’ woes. She looked on in 2001 as the towers crumbled down to Ground Zero. […]
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