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My quietness has a man in it, he is transparentand he carries me quietly, like a gondola, through the streets.He has several likenesses, like stars and years, like numerals.― Frank O’Hara There WAS a red wave in Florida. A real crimson tsunami. My wife, a registered Democrat, actually said out loud as she sealed her mail-in…
If you are looking at the midterm results and concluding that the rest of America is clamoring to be more like Florida, I think you are huffing paint. – Tim Miller “Florida is where ‘woke’ goes to die,” the state’s autocratic leader crowed. Did you ever hear anything so damn horrifying and at the same…
He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount. – Chinese Proverb Most of the time we live on the back of a tiger. And most of the time, the tiger is sleeping. We get to concentrate on being writers, parents; we know who we are and what we’re trying to do. Then every so…
Here are 21 of the elected officials, candidates and other prominent figures who spread misinformation or cast doubt on the attack. In tweets, podcasts and TV appearances, these figures questioned whether the public was being told the full story of what happened and in some cases spread theories that were unfounded. The man alleged to have…
I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d’etat imaginable. – Kurt…
Just leave me some ammo, a little water, some chips if you have ’em. – Runt of the Litter On Apr. 8, 2020, in the chaotic early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Fox News host Laura Ingraham welcomed a little-known state senator onto her prime time show. With his unmistakable Minnesota accent and an aw-shucks bearing, Scott…
This article has been condensed, to eliminate the jargon and much of the ‘both-siderism’ lame stream media believes is necessary. I just want to put a face on the anti-democratic forces assaulting our duly elected government. Talking about the phony faithful grandmotherly façade fronting for the criminal cult plotting regime change at home. And I…
For Benji Durden, writing is like pulling teeth. He is also battling cancer, but calmly enough so you don’t want to complain to him about your achy knees. He’s still doing more mileage than you are. Training for the Honolulu Marathon. Him, not me. Anyway, I evidenced zero umbrage about some missing deadline. Not to…
If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have. … They are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting…
I am talking with Lee Fidler, legendary among The South’s best road runners. The guy is practically a guru of fitness, so I asked him to tell me about his most memorable run. Lee had three most memorable runs. (We most often mean races.) Which he gave me in order. And I got this idea. The difference…