Jack Burns Lives!

So what happens when filthy east coast population centers run out of acceptable places to dump their toxic shit? They haul it to the west. And who or what do would you think would be behind the whole scam?
Bingo! We have a winner….
A money hungry politician and a big old corporation.
From The New [...]

the sahara club bent over and said
“stick it in here”
over here in Abbey’s west
he’s dead so go ahead
“what about foreman?”
“oh, he’s gone too,
the fbi got him, and he said
toodle-oo”
and so the he-men businessmen said
“okay, we’ll drill her,
we’ll drill her dry,
we’ll rape her 117,339 times”
the cancer spread
the profits rose
the critters and the trees,
they got the hose
but [...]

“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than about peace, more about killing than we know about living.”-General of the Army, Omar Bradley

One thing my wife and I were both committed to as parents was being very open minded about our children’s educations and post collegiate endeavors. We saw it as essentially a “tragedy” for a kid to go to college simply for the purpose of landing a job and quickly settling into a life of eight [...]

Last night I was forced to attend a wedding for one my wife’s co-workers. It was a full blown fundamentalist Christian affair with a lot of talk about everyone giving their souls to Jesus. The ceremony opened with the preacher telling us that he was “going to read a passage, and that it was very, [...]

An acquaintance recently commented on the Democrats being “in power.” To which I replied, “Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.”
Thank you again, Ed, for the reminder.

Chapter 2
Memphis, Tennessee
John sat motionless at his desk staring at his inbox. There were 112 messages, all considerably past due for a response. He moved the cursor to close the program, but before he could complete the task a new message appeared. It was from his boss, and the subject line read
FORECAST
It was the message [...]

Chapter 1
Marathon, Texas
As G.L. rises from his chair, the well worn wood of the frame cracks from the pressure of his palms. He walks over to the window, pulls up the dust covered blinds and then opens the window, allowing the cool morning air to circulate through the house.
A spider scampers quickly into the deep [...]

I had a discussion recently with a gentleman (probably too generous a term for this guy, but…) about the “right” and the “left” in this country. He stated that leftists were in control of the government, a point I vehemently disagreed with, and here’s why.
The real “left” (if there is such a nice little [...]

“By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.”-Edward Abbey
My wife and I will be traveling to the east coast today for our middle child’s college graduation. It’s hard to believe it, but at the tender age of 46, I now have two children finished with their undergrad [...]