Camping Prohibited
Harold Camping had it wrong — again. The world did not end on Saturday. It’s two minutes from midnight Sunday as I type this and the crickets are chirping, the wind is blowing, Poe is snoring and I...
View ArticleLady Gaga's a Fake & You aren't great
Listen up all you monsters. You know who you are — Lady Gaga is a fake. There is nothing, I repeat, nothing authentic about her, not even her ability to bamboozle you. Oh, sure, she can sing, but then...
View ArticleColorado Shooting: Guns & Cameras
Here’s the thing I hate most in the aftermath of tragedies like the one in Colorado: There is no evidence of any military history. He did not serve in the military as far as we know. He was a...
View ArticleOn Bended Knee for Boston
I have been on the road — I’ll tell you more about that in another post — and as in the case when I travel, access to news is limited. When I heard about the explosions in Boston, I contacted my...
View ArticleThe Creative’s Path
Whenever people ask how I became a writer I tell them Vietnam made me a writer. I have met people who don’t get it, the way my identity as a writer, as a person, is so intricately shaped by war. The...
View ArticleThe Problem with Evil
I have been intentionally silent. Instead of blogging, I have spent time listening to the ramblings of Elliot Rodger. I watched the news reports of Richard Martinez grieving for his beautiful son,...
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