Jack Burns Lives!

Writing can be so frustrating. It’s difficult to produce quality material (I know as I’ve yet to do so), and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find anything worth reading.
Frankly, I believe American writing is more or less in the ditch.
From published novels to poetry, most of what I’m seeing of late is rather mundane. [...]

Hayduke left a comment about my Arizona post that’s worthy of further discussion:
Why do we want to travel quickly for long distances?
Where do we stop feeding our desires and begin living our ideals? We only live on this poor beat up and much abused earth thing one time. No going back and doing it over. [...]

I loathe air travel. The whole experience from check in to claiming luggage, assuming you were lucky enough for your luggage to show up. Once you arrive at the airport, every stage of the process seems stressful and demeaning. But if you want to travel quickly for long distances, it’s still the best [...]

A right wing gunman, spurred on my blathering right wing talk show hosts shoots and kills people in a Unitarian Church in Knoxville. A Wesleyan University student is gunned down while at work by an obsessed and rejected admirer. An abortion doctor is murdered, shot down in cold blood by a right wing nutjob, and [...]

In preparation for an upcoming trip to Arizona, I checked out one of those location specific magazines. Every state or major destination seems to have one these days. You know, the ones that are supposedly about the state or city but are mostly just ads for bad restaurants and other touristy venues.
They’re glossy collections [...]

We have an epidemic of profound and appalling ignorance in this country, one that’s reached levels hard for me to comprehend.
Our so-called liberal President is doling out billions to the crooks at Skank of America and General Motors and has apparently forgotten about a few other issues that badly need attention, like national health care.
This [...]

Over the weekend, a lunatic went into a church and executed a doctor that performed abortions. I’m sure as the details unfold we’ll find that he was a Bill O’Reilly regular listener and a self-proclaimed soldier for god.
Interestingly, the god squad also has a ready answer for why there’s so much violence in today’s [...]