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It’s a survey request from your local politician. With a link to a fairly bland domain name. Seems pretty innocuous. It’s the usual round robin of tepid self-serving questions about reducing cost-of-living pressure, reducing migration to ease housing, reducing tax burden, boosting defense, strengthening the economy. Policy masquerading
What’s worse? The fact the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) illegally imprisons individuals? Or the fact those individuals are illegally imprisoned in privately-run windowless detention centers? Or the fact illegally imprisoned individuals on hunger strikes in detention centers are force-fed with tubes pushed down their noses into
They rode out under a sky blistered with stars and smeared with old wounds. Cormac McCarthy’s violence-riddled western novel is book as scripture. It doesn’t speak so much as howl. The book follows scalp hunters who kill Apaches for bounty and Mexicans for sport and anyone else for
When I was a young man, my father told me that he didn’t want to die in pain or in agony. Didn’t want to fade away in a cloud of narcotics, a mist of scattered memories. He pointed to a pillow and said I would know what to
How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got on paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt? What are the best things and the worst