Thoughts

Slow-rising horror

“The slow-rising central horror of ‘Watergate’ is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something […]

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the human condition

Dan Rather updated their status. 4 May 2017 History doesn’t reward political victories, it rewards improvements in the human condition. History doesn’t reward political victories, it rewards improvements in the human condition. The health care bill that the Republicans have just rammed through the House of Representatives is all about optics. It’s all about a political

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sunset storm

the sky calls at sunset,the smell of the wind blowing through the branches,the sensation across you torso, the smell of the humidity in the airin this heavy sticky front of airbefore the storm…

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