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...
Disarming, and Empowering, Lost Souls by Robert C. Koehler 936 words I had a passing moment of wonder the other...
Are We on the Verge of Civil War II? by Robert C. Koehler 978 words Published in: Common Dreams, My...
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.
What is democracy but platitudes and dog whistles? The national direction is quietly predetermined — it’s not up for debate...
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.
“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.
“Ducey insists Arizona holds sole or shared jurisdiction over the 60-foot strip the containers rest on and has a constitutional right to protect ...
Two dogs walking. One of them says to the other: “I bark and I bark, but I never feel like I effect real change.”
Damn those Marxists! You know their game, right? They want to spew truth and real history at our kids.
I stroke the killer’s hatred and certainty, knowing the answer we all ache for — why? — will not be forthcoming.
Can a poem transcend fury — fury combined with helplessness? Can individual property owners join NATO?
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.
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.
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.
“When militarism is addressed as a psychosocial disease, the absurd irrationality of its symptoms is clearly exposed.”