“We hold these truths to be self-evident” asserts our Declaration of Independence: “that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”  While these truths may have been self-evident to Thomas Jefferson and his fellow traitors, Americans […]

Featured Image: Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, Paradisio, Amsterdam 1977. Photo by Koen Soek/Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Neoliberalism does not fight, it only conquers. Those who finance the agenda can redirect it as they see fit: he who arms the troops chooses their battles. Boots on the throat have never worked nearly so well as […]

Featured image: CHINESE Red Guard parade, June 1966. Photo Jean Vincent, APF/Getty Images I never declared myself a White Supremacist. In four years of hanging around the Internet’s darkest quarters I have never met a White Supremacist. “White Supremacist” isn’t an identity, it’s an accusation. Organizations like the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center […]

Featured image: Newark riots, 1967 The day after Governor Phil Murphy reopened New Jersey’s beaches, a Minneapolis police officer knelt atop George Floyd for eight minutes and forty-six seconds. Mr. Floyd’s subsequent demise has replaced our old crisis with a new and more photogenic one. A world once preoccupied with a Chinese virus has now […]

Featured Image: Theodor Severin Kittelsen, She Is Making Her Way Through the Country (1900) On April 16 Governor Phil Murphy said he would be “the happiest guy, if not in New Jersey, maybe in America or on the planet” if we re-opened by June 1.  On April 27 he gave us a six-point plan for […]

Featured Image: St. Roch asking the Virgin Mary to heal victims of the plague, Jacques-Louis David (1780) Like 9/11, COVID-19 has been a high interest/low information event from the onset.  Chinese officials have long been notorious for understating death tolls and covering up embarrassing scandals.  The figures coming out of Wuhan were unreliable from the […]

Featured image: the earliest rendition of the Crucifixion, a mocking graffito proclaiming of a fellow servant, “Alexamenos Worships His God,” c. 200 Early Christians could have claimed Jesus was a prophet like Jeremiah or Isaac. They could have called him a great teacher like Pythagoras or Plato. Late Antiquity had no shortage of holy men […]

To the memory of Fuensanta Plaza, and to Annamaria Sigyn Estelle Filan. Hreggdanz First fled as a falcon, bedazzled by lightning after so long in darkness, wings agonized wrenched in widening gyre Sky-spinning, blow-buffeted, bond-stiffness holding him back as he spiraled There!  Through the storm-cone, ears popping, tumbling then wings biting sudden-still air.  For a second […]

Featured image: Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne, July 1794 After beheading their king, the French Convention set its sights on God.  Churches were stripped of their golden monstrances and silver chalices; statues and stained glass windows were shattered; hymnals and devotional books were consigned to the pyres.  Crosses were knocked down in graveyards and their gates […]

Featured Image: Joe Netherworld, died January 2020 I: Do not call me Tiresias:  I am not that seer. I am a mockingbird amidst nightingales, speaking in tongues torn from others.  I have not seen that place beyond the cold river and past the Gates of Onyx. The crows keep their eyes for themselves. Of course […]