Graham Greene, Power and the Glory
“Hate was just a failure of imagination.” (The Power and the Glory, Penguin ed. pg. 131) – only slightly more inspiring than the words of Dr. Ben Carson: “It will…
Dispatches – Save a Job, Save the World
These days, while wading into the great American slog, there are many opportunities to overhear and even participate in compelling conversations on the state of our nation and the world,…
Think about it, AJ
Looking at “Pizzagate” and 9/11 from the conspiracy perspective.
What’s this about political butts?
John Wyndham was correct that we are fucked as a species: the seas will rise, and plants will hunt us for food and sport. But I’ve read this sentence from…
Don Quixote – 341 years into the future
Cervantes had Trump figured out over 300 years before that dofus was born: “[T]he man who never intends to pay isn’t worried about any problems when he strikes his bargain.”…
Dispatches – Picking on VW
This particular discussion inadvertently veered into insightful observations on a current event and its implications for modern society: “You hear it’s been a year since Volkswagen got caught cheating on…
Dispatches – What Pootin Wants
We live in interesting political times, if interesting can be a euphemism for society weighed down by populations living in opaque bubbles, blind to their own braindead expositions: “These pretzels…
Should have seen Drumpf coming
Infinite Jest has many layers of awesomeness, tough in places but always worth the price of admission, which requires true commitment given its 1,000+ pages and 300+ endnotes. Among its…
Something New
The short story “The Crook of a Tree” was done a few years back and first made “publicly available” as part of the compilation “Stories from Austin: A Collection of…
At least he can easily pass his tiny hands…
There are many great passages from Infinite Jest that presage this year’s presidential campaigns – and no better description that could apply to Donald Trump than this insult buried near…