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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...

I’ve forgotten water, where it comes from. I’ve become a “turn on the tap” person; I twist the tap and wait for the magic. When the magic...

My maternal grandfather was a conservative fellow: I’m sure he voted for Nixon both times and for Ford; if he had lived long enough he...

I have no idea how to sell books. Okay…I’ve read about marketing and publicity and building a brand or, more accurately, I start and just...

This story takes place thirty years ago. The characters are my mother, her boyfriend Norman, our family friend "L," and myself. Around...

MAGA people deride this thing they call “Wokeness.” There they are, grimly charging over hills, swords in hand, in an attempt to slay...

Pandette is gone. A tow truck showed up and its driver handed me a check. While I was waiting I sat in her driver's seat, contemplating...

A couple of weeks ago, this Florida rapper named Julio Foolio (sc?) was gunned down in a Holiday Inn parking lot. This seems to happen a...

I’ve been back in Portland three months now, I will be here until at least next April. My post at the distribution center ended Monday so...

LETTING S*** GO Getting to work requires two buses: The 20 gets me across the river, the 6 gets me to the neighborhood where I work. A...