Frightening futuristic tale of the day
All right, since no one’s gonna come right out and say it, I will; Trump has a bromance with Putin. I believe Rosneft (Russia’s state oil...
Living with our past
“Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it.” –Cole Porter No, not love, I’m talking about intuition. Research shows that humans...
What it’s like to be a feminist in the year of the cock
It’s 2017, the Chinese year of the cock, and the ERA still has not been ratified (written by Alice Paul in 1923, passed by Congress in...
Standing Still
The situation at Standing Rock is finally starting to make waves in major media. Thousands of Native Americans camped out on the plains...
The Gold-plated Lining
'Every cloud has a silver lining’ or so they say. For those of us who assumed we would start 2017 from a Clinton perspective, i.e. the...
America's Coming of Age
Well, here we are, in the final act of this off-off-Broadway production of The Emperor and the Buffoon Go to Washington. It’s...
This Land is Your Land
photo credit: Terray Sylvester A big part of adulting, I’ve noticed, is having the courage to stand up and speak my mind. (And thanks to...
“Let’s act like humans.” -Buckminster Fuller
The Standing Rock Sioux (along with many other tribes) are camped out on the plains of North Dakota right now protesting an Energy...
Try Utah!
I’m a transplant. I didn’t grow up here; in Carbondale, I mean. True, my parents were living here when I was born— almost happened right...
Rock Bottom
I have a magnet on my frig that my best friend, Audra, gave to me. It reads: Who the hell would throw shit at a fan?! Well, now we know....