These politicians, candidates for president, think they can do whatever the fuck they want. Sen. Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, has been wowing people because nobody knows who he is. He’s a politician, a Democrat. That’s enough for me. He’s untrustworthy scum. Even as he professes his deep and profound Christian faith. And out […]

At the end of the 20th century, I was deployed to the Balkans. I joined the army in 1995 after squeaking out of high school. I spent two years at Fort Benning, Georgia before being assigned to the 212th Military Police Company in Kitzingen, Germany. Germany was nice. Good food and even better beer. Then […]

The College Republicans have canceled their “Catch an illegal alien” capture the flag game. And, like true assholes, they cite ‘campus security’ as the reason. Security had nothing to do with it. They were embarrassed. The whole university, even the Johnson County Republicans, turned their backs on them. They canceled to save face, and, to […]

The University of Iowa College Republicans are fucking hilarious. For the second year they’re holding their “Conservative Coming Out Week.” Ha! I guess that’s about right. Iowa City is a very liberal town. And these College Republicans are shunned like gays are shunned from the White House. So I guess it comes full circle. Last […]

The Iowa River thawed a month ago. One day, walking over the bridge, I stood and watched the ice break up. Hundreds of dead fish, their bloated white bellies pushing them to the surface, raced by. Dozens of dead Canadian geese, their feathers matted with ice and water, jammed against a piling. I wondered how […]

I was sitting on my couch fighting with my Spanish homework when the guy on the radio told me Kurt Vonnegut has died. I’m glad he lived. He made our place in time seem a little more bearable. A humanist who needed no god, Kurt is up in heaven now. And I wish him safe […]

And holy shit……. …..they almost kicked me out.

“Writers should work alone. They should see each other only after their work is done, and not too often then. Otherwise they become like writers in New York. All angle worms in a bottle, trying to derive knowledge and nourishment from their own contact and from the bottle. Sometimes the bottle is shaped art, sometimes […]

At twenty-five pages, this is the longest thing I’ve ever written. If you read it, and have any comments, please send them my way. This is the second draft. I have one more to go. Thanks to James McPherson for all of his help. Thank you for your help, Robert. I Henry drove up the […]

After a break so my brother could switch stuff over, the website is back up. I like this new WordPress thing I think. So thanks, Michael. I’m also very excited about being able to post pictures. Hopefully I don’t get too carried away with it. But here’s one of my recent favorites: