We were going to be greeted as liberators. Women and children waving the stars and stripes and throwing flowers at the tanks rumbling by. The men shaking our hands, offering friendship and hope. Man. Remember France in WWII? It would be something like that. President George W. Bush. Nobody should forget who did this. Doctrine […]

John Prine wrote this song way back in 1971. I just heard it tonight. Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore John Prine: While digesting Reader’s Digest In the back of a dirty book store A plastic flag with gum on the back Fell out on the floor. Well,I picked it up and […]

A few days or weeks ago I said Obama was the only democratic candidate I would vote for. I had never heard of Mike Gravel. Reading CNN and FoxNews, I was under the impression the only two democrats running were Clinton and Obama. Gravel has been painted as the lunatic fringe by the media. But […]

I found a couple of lines today in Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden that I liked. It’s a good book. Strange ending. But very interesting. “All your father found he found for you too, he thought, the good, the wonderful, the bad, the very bad, the really very bad, the truly bad and then the […]

I bought a hat today to cover my bare head. A simple trip. Pants, shoes. I found the hat when walking out. Bastards. They got me. The woman checking me out of the store shoved it in the bag last. “I don’t want to squish your hat,” she said. “No matter,” I said. “I believe […]

Alarcon, Daniel. War By Candlelight Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Bukowski, Charles. The Most Beautiful Woman In Town notes of a dirty old man Collins, Larry and Lapierre, Dominique. Freedom At Midnight Dos Passos, John. Three Soldiers Hemingway, Ernest. In Our Time The Sun Also Rises Death In The […]

Hey! I just noticed the cost of the war in Iraq is $420 billion. Smoke ’em if you got ’em. But hurry. It’ll be $421 billion before you know it.

Soldier: Commanding officer told me to lie We desperately need our heroes and hero stories. This is why we were taught to worship slave-owning white men in grade school and pledged allegiance to the flag every morning. We’re a Christian nation and refuse to see the evil we do. We deny it. And that, not […]

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 […]