Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. St. Patrick’s Day is back again, arare cross-cultural experience that Americans have chosen to celebrate in our trulystupid custom of polluting all meaning into an inebriated all-day war of attrition and orgy of crude stereotypes the scope of which won’t be seen again until Cinco de […]
The Rebel Liberties
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Blanking Down the House
My country is raining death upon one of the largest and oldest cities in the world, and as one of the apparently few genetically abnormal American mutants who experiences grief and empathy, even for total strangers, this has gotten to me. Heavily. Let me distract myself with a little housecleaning. When I wrote years ago […]
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Shake, Rattle & Roll
Did you already forget about Sunday night’s earthquake? If you don’t have your emergency supplies prepped and packed, stop reading and take care of that, pronto. Ready? Good. Now let’s talk about the supplies you’ll need to get through the next week. First, plenty of water. You’ll appreciate the hydration. (Don’t raid the earthquake kit!) […]