The Trouble with Tom.


Every one of us can survive. Just what persuaded you that we can't? The resolve--in advance--to act as if it weren't so.


"On what basis did they build such an incoherent mix of desires, to want to stay ignorant and to be powerful as well? Were these two parts of the same insanity?" --Kim Stanley Robinson, Forty Signs of Rain (2004)

    "Cat Snatch Fever"

connoisseur of discords
strange orange oreos
preparing to stroke the white doe
brass buttons were strong magic

somewhere in the distance
to fix the information in a form
it takes a long time
we never get there


A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy.


"As commentators on oil and debt pondered leaden gray skies, the 30 to 40 percent of the Republican coalition that read the Left Behind series or believed in the rapture were looking toward the heavens more hopefully." --Kevin Phillips, American Theocracy (2006)