Henry was skeptical. But Luke said it wouldn’t be a problem “We can go to the park,” he said shortly after arriving. “Where’s Haight?” “I don’t know,” Henry said. He pulled out his computer to look it up. They got off BART and found Haight and made their way to the park. It was a […]

I thought we won in Afghanistan. Everything was cleared up, made like new. Right? Democracy and freedom and all that? Then why are they still killing journalists? “The journalist, 23-year-old Sayed Parwez Kaambakhsh, was sentenced to death last week by a three-judge panel in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif for distributing a report he printed […]

Oh. My. Fucking. God. I can’t stand this anymore. Blackwater, in May, 2005, dropped CS gas grenades on American soldiers and Iraqi civilians (SF Gate). CS gas, better known as tear gas, is apparently, highly controlled. Soldiers have to get permission from the President of the United States to employ it. Soldiers, always imperiled by […]

When I suffered through U.S. Army Basic Combat Training way back in 1995, I heard about the Soldier’s Creed. I never learned it word for word. But the other night, while fucking around on Wikipedia, I stumbled across the creed I ‘lived by’ and discovered it has been revised recently. And not for the better. […]

Two of the preeminent academic institutions in the world call the San Francisco Bay Area home. The Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University annually compiles a list of the top 500 universities in the world. In 2007, Stanford University and UC-Berkeley ranked second and third respectively. Very impressive. Both institutions, however, have […]

The Flannery O’Connor quote I’ve been thinking about: “Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

The CIA recently, in violation of a judge’s order, destroyed video tapes of interrogations. These interrogations took place at secret prisons through the world–Black Sites. The tapes were thought to show, in living color and surround sound, some of our recently developed “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Or, in non-Republicanspeak, torture. Two tapes were destroyed. And everyone […]

Oh good, you’ve got the yellow ribbon stuck to your car. It’s getting a bit faded though, isn’t it? Might want to run down to the Wal-Mart and pick up a new one or dozen. You want to support the troops all you can, don’t you? And while you’re there, make sure to pick up […]

“Sept. 11, 2001. At 8:46 a.m., in one of the most tragic events in the history of mankind, George W. Bush’s political career is saved.” The Onion’s Our Dumb World

Two dirty men smoke a joint on a busy street corner. Henry can recognize that sweet smell anywhere. Even through the rank odor of urine and shit and rotting teeth and rotting cities. He quit when he couldn’t find the words to match his thoughts. He’d think cat and write dog. Genocide became happy birthday. […]