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Trump is many things, but he is not an idiot…so we do we buy him playing the fool? “Gaza…we just need to clear it out, build some very...

I should be working on a book right now… should . I believe in the stories, I think people would enjoy them but…I have no belief in...

Woke: It is Trump’s obsession or maybe just another word to distract us like “poison” or “Greenland.” MAGA has made a mantra of this word...

I live in a conflicted part of Portland. My apartment is on the border of the Pearl---which is full of upscale shops—and Old Town where...

This is not a proper city, this is dystopian hellscape: You don’t have people turning sidewalks into KOAs in a proper city…or using them...

I decided to splurge and have McDonalds delivered. Eating it reminded me of being on the road, those nights I stayed in hotels and would...

People have bands these consider “guilty pleasures.” It could be the Backstreet Boys or Ambrosia or the Carpenters or Nickelback—bands no...

I am about, uhm, seventy-seven percent done with book six of song lyrics/poems. Today I wrote the introduction for it and ahhh here it...

Christmas used to be different. Not better or worse, just different as times are different. Both my families lived in Sacramento,...

Listen… I’ve never been happy enough to embrace mediocrity. Happy, still, whatever. You put me in a cage and all I can do is focus on the...

In case you don’t know the story… Recently, some dude shot the CEO of some medical corporation dead. Seemingly it was a protest for the...

I call what I do “art shit.” It’s not meant to be negative or dismissive, I just don’t want to be precious about things, you know? When I...

Trump won the election. He won it based (mostly) on two things: Stop immigration, get illegal aliens out. Biden has been bad for...

Someone I am close to called me after I sent him this, (the original article). He is a white male, late 70s, a Liberal like me. We spoke...

What do we do with this? What do we do with this hopelessness, this disgust? Sixty-seven million of us voted to keep Trump out of the...

I have neighbors; no idea how old they are, maybe around 30. A woman rents the apartment, her boyfriend is usually over. They argue all...

What do you want of me? That could come off as harsh but it is a very earnest question—why would you be here if I wasn’t giving you...

When I was thirteen to fourteen years old, I broke into houses to steal food. My mother always made sure we had food, but we were poor so...

The struggles, man…they’re real. Call it "first world problems,” but they’re real, aren’t they? We think of real, day to day suffering,...

One day you will understand your own mortality. You will understand that you have far fewer years ahead of you than behind you. What will...