Some People Don’t Know When to QuitNo, I’m not going to talk about how last night’s Presidential “Debate” (is that what a debate is?) went exactly the way everybody knew it…Jun 28Jun 28
Published inIconoclast.blogOh for the Good Old Days, When Government Could GovernI’m doing my best, trying to learn to live on the wrong side of the Urban-Rural Divide.Aug 12, 2023Aug 12, 2023
Published inIconoclast.blogHow Did We End Up Like This? The End of Cause and EffectThere’s still a lot of things you’ll never know Like why each time the sky begins to snow, you cryMar 22, 2023Mar 22, 2023
Published inIconoclast.blogI Deserve ItThere are two extreme ways to say “I deserve it.” One is a head drooping shoulders sagging feet dragging despondent mumble. The other is an…Feb 23, 2023Feb 23, 2023
Published inIconoclast.blogThe Great Urban-Rural Divide and the Feudal Pyramid“The Monday morning after the 2016 election, in a gas station in a logging town in north-west Wisconsin, I asked a group of retired and…Oct 14, 2022Oct 14, 2022
Published inIconoclast.blogGoin’ Up the Country-The Great Urban-Rural DivideI’m gonna leave this city, got to get away All this fussing and fighting, man, you know I sure can’t staySep 23, 2022Sep 23, 2022
Published inIconoclast.blogDobbs Isn’t About AbortionProtestors act like the overthrow of Roe v. Wade is about the law-about Constitutional rights, privacy rights, women’s rights, reproductive…Jun 28, 20221Jun 28, 20221
Published inIconoclast.blogWe Made It All UpGod exists the way the USA and France and Pakistan exist — the way the Yankees and Lakers and Manchester United exist… the way Apple and…Apr 1, 2022Apr 1, 2022
Published inIconoclast.blogThe Religion of PolarizationIt’s no mystery that extreme political polarization has coincided with the rise of the Christian Right and its Christian Nationalist…Mar 25, 2022Mar 25, 2022
Published inIconoclast.blogSubjective Objective Reality — It’s Complicated… and ComplexObjective knows.Mar 6, 2022Mar 6, 2022