Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper… sharp pencils… typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk… roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter… and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead. –...

So I just finishing watching the first episode of V. As I did I was reminded of other series that have had a similar premise of aliens coming to earth and dramatically effecting our culture. I was reminded of the shadowy Taelons in their ridiculous...

No shadows, no stars There’s no moon and no cars November Only believes in a pile of dead leaves And a moon that’s the color of bone No prayers for November to linger longer Stick your spoon in the wall And we’ll slaughter them all November has...

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right. – H.L. Mencken The landscape of political discourse in this country is dominated by two...

“The old American mind-set that Richard Hofstadter famously called the paranoid style — the sense that Masons or the railroads or the Pope or the guys in black helicopters are in league to destroy the country — is aflame again, fanned from both...