And how the victory of a free people may happen yet — None of us even know how to express our horror anymore. We lived in a world that thought it had left the violence of its ignominious past behind. But we had not. In response to the atrocities committed by the Russian occupiers in Bucha, a formerly idyllic little bedroom community…

And a prediction of where it’s going — I’m not sure what to write about Ukraine today. The poor, yet courageous, country is suffering under the shit-stained heel of a madman. The world is unexpectedly responding, but there are limits when a mafia autocrat, believing his own anti-logic stories, also has 4,000 nukes. As of today… I always…

Who kiss galaxies in the deepest black night sky — One night time stopped, but then it changed its mind. Time often does that when we’re not watching. It comes and goes to its own secret tunes and devices, Which it wisely does not share with us. ******************** One time a cat decided to become a tree. You might think that…

A repulsive blunder & the approaching end of his regime — It’s Monday, March 7. The war in Ukraine is going badly for Russia. The Russian Army conscripts who were sent in, without even knowing what the “operation” was, are now perhaps 11,000 short. But whether the actual number is 2,000, 5,000, or 11,000, they’re all very, very dead. And their…

Freedom & decency attacked by a dictator — I realize it’s much too soon to guess how Russia’s vile invasion of Ukraine actually turns out, but that kind of logic has never stopped me yet. The presidential historian, Michael Beschloss, remarked on Twitter, early in the onslaught, that the front page of the New York Times looked like…

If it were standup, it would bomb — “I read the news today, oh boy.” - The Beatles, from Sgt. Pepper OK, I woke up, got out of bed this morning, and saw that Donald Trump and his yesterday-kind-of-troubling Secretary of State, Mike “I sold out the Kurds & the Afghans, too” Pompeo, the super wannabe Comrade Excellency…

Outdated propaganda techniques & the psychology of inhumanity — Just last Saturday, Feb. 12, I posted a piece here about the current crisis in Ukraine, discussing my idea that Putin is actually worried about his own grip on power, and that’s what’s behind the whole thing. Today, Friday, Feb. 18, 2022, the situation seems more dangerous than ever. US…

Where memory, imagination, and Aliens collide — For years, there was the strangest open air bazaar we would pass by on the Paseo Del Pueblo Sur, the main street in Taos, New Mexico, just a couple blocks north from the Plaza. It sold ancient weathered doors from Spanish ranchos and haciendas, all on display for touch, vividness…

Why he will inevitably lose — It’s been interesting to watch Russia’s erstwhile Head Mafia Boss, Gospodin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, who will be 70 in October, screw up to the max with his idiotic Ukraine fiasco. …