27 Jan, 2023
Disarming, and Empowering, Lost Souls
Disarming, and Empowering, Lost Souls by Robert C. Koehler 936 words I had a passing moment of wonder the other...
27 Jan, 2023
19 Jan, 2023
Are We on the Verge of Civil War II?
Are We on the Verge of Civil War II? by Robert C. Koehler 978 words “Folks keep talking about another...
13 Jan, 2023
How Safe Can We Really Be?
That’s the guy’s defense, anyway — that plus his right to carry four handguns, an AR-15 and a 12-guage shotgun into a supermarket in Atlanta.
5 Jan, 2023
Before the bombs come the platitudes
What is democracy but platitudes and dog whistles? The national direction is quietly predetermined — it’s not up for debate...
29 Dec, 2022
I’m dreaming of a warm Christmas
Two a.m. Boink! My eyes pop open. It’s Christmas Eve, but it’s not that I just heard Santa wandering through the house. It’s far more banal: gotta use the bathroom. I crawl out of bed, step bare-assed into . . . oh my God . . . a learning experience.
22 Dec, 2022
Praying we learn from each other
“How exactly is ‘diversity’ our ‘strength’?” Oh, the smug ignorance of Tucker Carlson! Sometimes, in his certainty of rectitude, he asks questions that actually matter — or would matter if they were asked with any sort of honesty.
17 Dec, 2022
Beyond razor wire: A connected planet
“Ducey insists Arizona holds sole or shared jurisdiction over the 60-foot strip the containers rest on and has a constitutional right to protect ...
8 Dec, 2022
Dancing on the edge of hell
Two dogs walking. One of them says to the other: “I bark and I bark, but I never feel like I effect real change.”
24 Nov, 2022
Ubuntu or collective suicide
I stroke the killer’s hatred and certainty, knowing the answer we all ache for — why? — will not be forthcoming.
17 Nov, 2022
Shatter alley
Can a poem transcend fury — fury combined with helplessness? Can individual property owners join NATO?
10 Nov, 2022
Looking for victory beyond the election
After the election comes . . . the coverage, which always, at least in the mainstream media, seems to reduce everything to winning and losing, to strategy and tactics, rather than to the deep issues shaping the future.
2 Nov, 2022
The drum and the cardinal
My friends Scott and Betsey gave me a drum a few weeks ago. I played it as I sat with them . . . and I certainly mean the word “play” as childishly as you can imagine.
27 Oct, 2022
Loving nature or profiting from it: Take your pic
It’s fascinating how “interests” interfere with survival. We prepare for — and, of course, wage — war with an overwhelming percentage of our resources (to the benefit of the profiteers), but we plead poverty when it comes to helping people or, you know, saving the planet.
21 Oct, 2022
Fifteen seconds till Armageddon
“When militarism is addressed as a psychosocial disease, the absurd irrationality of its symptoms is clearly exposed.”
12 Oct, 2022
Death by nationalism?
Death by nationalism? by Robert C. Koehler 911 words The game may be almost over. Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S.Davies put...