Zero Dark Thirty

This 2012 movie, an award-winning critically-acclaimed entertainment and box-office success, is above all a remarkable piece of propaganda. Or maybe marketing is more accurate. Publicizing is even better. If you wonder why, or haven’t seen it, let me spoil the theme for you: Glory be the lengths that **America** will go to, the resources and commitment she will provide, the…

Dear imbecyclists

Now now, don’t be offended. It’s just a funny word I made up and wanted to use. Anyway, it doesn’t apply to all bike riders... but it does to You, the rude fool wearing black at night, biking in poor weather without reflectors or lights. Sometimes you’re wearing headphones, occasionally a helmet, and though I’ve…

What the Ftrumpk?

Like me, you may be shocked but not surprised at the joining of the word President to the word Trump this week. Or surprised but not shocked, but either way in the end it seems the new President-elect may have been right – the election was rigged and American democracy is a sham. It's okay…