Great Horned Owl

Great Horned Owl

 At three o’clock in the morning a great horned owl hooted outside my bedroom window. Moonlight laughed in the forest. The rain had stopped and the weather had cleared up and I had to get up to pee but I didn’t want to leave my warm bed. I felt like that owl who had...
You Break It You Own it

You Break It You Own it

 With the news from Venezuela this morning (January 3rd, 2026) we refer you to our good friend over at Global Macro Monitor. The crib notes for those who won’t or can’t read this important post in all its detail are pasted below. For the entire article...
Trump’s Great Leap Backward

Trump’s Great Leap Backward

 There is a strange similarity of thinking between Trump’s tariff-driven bid to “restore” U.S. manufacturing and Mao Zedong’s ill-fated Great Leap Forward (1958-62). They do not share an ideology but a method: both are top-down attempts to force economic reality to...
Please Please Please Give Me Money

Please Please Please Give Me Money

  For only 16 cents a day, less than the cost of one cup of coffee per month, yada, yada, yada … you can support ? They’re out there, the Christmas hucksters, appealing to your guilty heart, yes guilty, you know you’ve sinned and you want to atone painlessly so you...
Why I Cancelled Social Media

Why I Cancelled Social Media

 I’ve had a number of friends say they miss me on social media.  But, when I ask if they’ve read my blog, my novel or my book,of short stories, the answer is often “it’s on my list.” I can’t help but think of the essay Literature and Life by Mario Vargas Llosa.It...