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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
"Dear Vets," Part 6, the Wrap Up, "Survey Said..." SHARE
When I started this series I never dreamt, and the colleague who originated the survey certainly never imagined, how many people would end up having to weigh their opinions about veterans as a result of my efforts to distribute his survey.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Dear Vets, Part 5: "Blaming Rape Victims"? SHARE
o One of the best things about writing a column like this is getting to learn how others think. I have received so many angry letters on this series. I have been challenged often and well from a variety of angles from the curt and uncensored "F__ you"s over on the Daily Kos to thousand word commentaries,
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Dear Vets, part four: The No Thank You Letter SHARE
I have been working on this issue in public in a town so red state it was home to McViegh: Kingman, AZ. Though i have been writing political humor for 20 years i just started writing in this community last fall. Trips to the Wal-Mart aren't always a comfortable as thye used to be.
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Friday, February 26, 2010
Dear Vets, part three: You Think I Got a Complex? SHARE
I swear i am not making this up, but today, again just prior to tonight's writing, i had another encounter with another vet.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Dear Veterans part two: The Veritable Parable SHARE
Judging by the array of responses to part one of this column, I admit I was a bit reluctant to get to part two. Which, of course, means that the terrorists won.
Friday, February 26, 2010
"Dear Veterans," a Q&A SHARE
An associate of mine recently asked me to distribute a survey for him about Veterans. Having served in the military and believing that joining the armed forces is a way that some people express their love of country, I agreed to do it, even though i myself have been a pacifist and strongly anti-military since leaving the Navy in 1981.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Current Comedy 11/19/09: “Capitalism†Isn't Funny SHARE
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Current Comedy 8/24/09: Reportage from Trent Franks' Kingman Rally, SHARE
I searched for two weeks for the question, the magic question, the one to make Trent Franks break character. I tossed in bed with it in my mind till I wrote it in my journal, then made sure I arrived at the Assembly of God in Kingman, AZ on Saturday August 22nd, 2009, one hour and forty-five minutes early.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Your Freedom Day Present, Reprints (1994) SHARE
Hey, summers take a lot of time away from the office and i appreciate all you guys who read this and aim to get in some new stuff soon, but not too soon. I am taking off this morning for the 38th annual Rainbow Gathering in northern New Mexico; and, boo-hoo, then must travel to Texas to deal with my late parents property. My apologies, but there won't probably even be a reprint for the next two weeks. i miss you guys and will be back in regular production by fall. In the meantime, keep laughing at the news. it's your only defense.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Rampage of Reprints Refuses to Relent SHARE
Yes ladies and gentlemen once again I have spent my week in such other endeavors, primarily painting this week, and preparing to go on a performing tour for the next three day and thus have prepared no current comedy.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Slacking Reprint Again: Make Immigration Legal Nov. '07 SHARE
Yes, still summertime slacking but the whole "why should i have to give a ____ about Sarah Palin and David Letterman in the first place?" issue should be buried, by me. Having just returned from a poetry tour and being busy preparing new books for the next one, i slipped, missed the timing, and now Dave Lindorff's nabbed the angle i was going to take this week anyway: "Criminalizing Dissent: Obama Pot Calls Iranian Kettle Black." SO, here is a piece that was so widely reprinted it ended up on the Public Enemy site. With Anderson Cooper again doing his part to demonize immigrants ("They;re growing marijuana in yyour national parks!" -6/16/09),it's good to keep perspective.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Current Not-Quite Comedy, 5/27/09: Knee Injuries Aren't Funny, but this was-- SHARE
Due to recent injury, author flaps incoherently for a bit then reprints supposedly cool column from 16 years ago-yzur
Thursday, April 30, 2009
"Manifest Destiny" a slam poem SHARE
This is a piece i perform at slams around AZ. I wrote it in honor of the host of the weekly Mill Ave. Poetry Slam, Terran Randolph, AKA Manifest Destiny.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Archive: "STORIES OF THE TV GENERATION #8 Jan. 1991: I GO TO WAR" SHARE
4/22/09: This week's piece, "A New Hussein" references one of my earliest pieces, the eighth, written in January of 1991, during the Gulf War. Here is that piece in its entirety. Note the original name for the column which would change to "News of the TV Generations," or NOVGEN. It ran in Springfield IL as a monthly column from 1990 til 1997.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Current Comedy 4/6/09: God Is Dead SHARE
Based on this last week's news cycle, we have conclusive evidence that god, at least as far as we Americans have dreamed up our own personal plastic Jesus on the dashboard kind of god we've been so manifestly destined to force on the world, that god has now died of elder abuse.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Artifact: Which Groundhog Will You Worship? (Dec, 1993) SHARE
This week's piece ties to the great holiday Groundhog Day. Fifteen years ago i wrote this piece about winter holidays in general, and about belief, NAFTA, and poetry as prose. It was published by the gret Anthony Moyers' underground 'zine, Unlimited Possibilities.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
11 Laugh Lines Learned in the Latest Election SHARE
Will the tacitly accepted branding of the centrist Barack Obama as a liberal lead to a new rightward shift in the "Stereotype" of liberalism like Clinton's election did? It could be a way to right shift what the left looks like.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Reprint of 1992's "Making a Clinton a Carter" SHARE
Noting the similarities between Obama as the candidate of change in the tradition of Dems who either sold out or failed.
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