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Do Animals Have Souls?
I was thinking about that question after seeing this photo of Oliver, a cat who's gone missing in Peterborough, which I think is in the UK.Have you ever seen a more soulful expression?
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The Illusion of Stability
AP photo/Rahmat Gul THOUGHTS ON THE TALIBAN TAKEOVER IN AFGHANISTANFirst, the fall of Kabul is not a failure of America or its people, or...
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BEFORE BUKOWSKI
WHAT THEY DON'T TEACH IN SCHOOLSWhat they don't tell you in schools, including academia, is that gritty grass roots American writing created by those living at or near the bottom of society has been...
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The Rise and Fall of Nathan J. Robinson
IS THIS THE END OF IVY LEAGUE ROLE PLAYING?The surprise is that anyone's surprised by Current Affairs Editor Nathan J. Robinson firing his entire staff when they discussed running the pseudo-left...
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Who Was Against the Afghanistan War?
THE PROBLEM with Afghanistan from a United States perspective was getting heavily involved there to start with. War apologists claim that 90% of the American public in 2001 supported the action and no...
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The Big Mistake All Conspiracy Theorists Make
The Big Mistake conspiracy theorists make is misunderstanding the world-- the universe. Our minds trick us into believing the world is less complex than it is, which allows us to cope with the mass of...
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The DIY Actor
OFFICIAL HISTORIES have a way of ignoring Do-It-Yourself activities, when individuals and their friends, unsatisfied with things-as-they-are, have taken matters into their own hands by starting their...
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Get Out of the War Business!
America continues to prove it's just not very good at war. Brave soldiers? Yes. Elite units-- as good as any on the planet? Sure. But for America as a whole, it's just not our thing.America wasn't...
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Cooperatives and Unionization in Publishing
IS CONFLICT ATCURRENT AFFAIRS MAGAZINE AN ANOMALY?Recently I covered here the Nathan J. Robinson fiasco, when he fired his entire staff at Current Affairs magazine, a "leftist" publication, when said...
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Empires of the Mind
THE END OF AMERICAN EMPIRE IS AGOODTHINGI DON'T KNOW if the Afghanistan fiasco will discredit the U.S. foreign policy establishment enough to out an end to the notion of America as the world's...
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Boycott That Kiosk!
DON'T USE SELF-CHECKOUTS!Welcome to the brave new world of more automation, less service and diminished quality of life, as more and more megamonopolist chains like McDonald's and CVS convert almost...
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The Inanities of Conspiracy Thinking
THE SENSATIONALIST MINDNo doubt there are countless actual conspiracies out there plotted by devious persons inside government and out of it (along with a mass of grifters of every species). For those...
View ArticleThe Truth About the Literary System
NO ONE really wants to know how the literary system in the U.S. operates.That thought went through my head last week when I tweeted, from my personal Twitter account, links to a few essays I wrote...
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Race to the Bottom
THE PROBLEM WITH CHEAPThe economics of Cheap cramps innovation, contributes to the decline of once-flourishing industries, and threatens our proud heritage of craftsmanship.The above is a quote by...
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Jonathan Franzen: Voice of the Establishment?
CURRENT NEWS in the Big Four publishing world is that Jonathan Franzen has a new 592-page novel coming out, Crossroads. To me, Franzen represents the voice and ideals of today's upper-caste...
View ArticleThe Believer Mag Shuts Down!
My past antagonist-- but there is no joy or gloating in this corner. No, even though the magazine trashed the Underground Literary Alliance with an egregious and highly inaccurate essay by Tom Bissell...
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The Band Aid
HYPER-CAPITALIST overconsumption has swept the planet, based upon three pillars: monopolistic multinational conglomerates, big box stores, and the Pavlovian nightmare demand-creation machines of...
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Elon Musk's Tesla Motors Gamble
IF I were heavily invested in Tesla Motors-- or shorting it-- right now I'd be scrambling to find objective analyses of the company, its cars, and its stock. Yet objectivity is in short supply on the...
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Elon Musk and the Myth of Invincibility
THERE ARE numerous reasons to think the stock price of Tesla Motors is way too high. Foremost among them has to be that the valuation is based on the hyperbolic persona of one person: Elon Musk.To...
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Why Tesla's Stock Price Is Too High
HOW HIGH IS TOO HIGH?Is Elon Musk himself the chief ingredient in Tesla Motors' trillion-dollar market valuation?It's true he's been the face of the auto company almost from the beginning. Visionary,...
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Why People Love NFL Football
No, it's not the violent hitting. Fans could better watch boxing, MMA-- or hockey-- for that.The National Football League is the Number One watched sport in America by far for two main reasons.1.)...
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Save the Writer!
Sign the Petition NOW to take action against chatbots producing A.I. books and content and thereby replacing human writers. At minimum, all literary products should be labelled if created by bots.This...
View ArticleInterview About the Underground
RECENTLY I did an interview with Wred Fright for Patrick King and the Mugwump Corporation. Much scattered thoughts about some crazy times, a slice of literary history.With gigantic monopolistic...
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AI Article at Lit Mag News
Are you a writer? An editor? A small press publisher?I wrote an article for the widely-read Substack site Lit Mag News about the ongoing AI craze, in which I tried to give some background to the...
View ArticleMy Political Predictions for 2024
AN OFF-THE-WALL ANALYSIS GIVEN the crazy chaotic times we live in, the primary objective of the practical observer should be to help move into the office of President of the United States the safest...
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