Joe Janes 3/3/21 Joe Janes 3/3/21

Live Free, Die Texan!

If you contract COVID and the hospital is full, don’t be a baby about it.

David Himmel 3/3/21 David Himmel 3/3/21

Requiem for a Bartender

Steve ran the joint. Tending bar was the family business. His father, Tom, ran it the generation before mine. Steve and I became fast friends. That’s the bartender’s job, after all—to befriend their loyal patrons. But I was also young, boiling over with energy, and thirsty to learn the ways of drinking legally in public. Steve gave me, gave so many of us that arena.

Contributing Writer 3/2/21 Contributing Writer 3/2/21

Hey, Kid, Catch The Ball

If we didn’t play ball in the alleys, we played pinners against the front-stoop with a pinkie or fastpitch against the factory wall. What we didn’t want to do is hit our only league into the yard of Mr. Hardwick, who had Baron, the meanest German Shepard you could imagine on patrol. Baron drooled with desire when he saw us come near, the dream of tearing off a piece of our skin or even a finger or two making him crazy.

Don Hall 3/1/21 Don Hall 3/1/21

I Believe… [A Potato Has No Gender, Idiots]

I believe… that if the renaming of “Mr. Potatohead” to “Potatohead” is the hill you’re going to die on, you may need to get some sort of professional evaluation.

Contributing Writer 2/28/21 Contributing Writer 2/28/21

Dear Don (both of you; all of you)

Crime has never stopped paying. How naïve I have been all my life thinking that one day it would…not pay.

Don Hall 2/27/21 Don Hall 2/27/21

Advice Unsolicited | Offense Is Definitely a Choice

First things first. It is and has always been a choice to take offense or not.

ALWAYS.

Your aunt has chosen to not be offended by a word that has become weapon used. You have chosen to be offended. Likewise, your aunt has chosen to be offended by being lectured and you choose to be offended that she is offended by your lecturing.

David Himmel 2/26/21 David Himmel 2/26/21

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of February 21, 2021

I get really happy when religious leaders do the right thing. A sign of this is often when the flock gets really upset at their leader.

Don Hall 2/25/21 Don Hall 2/25/21

How Free is Our Speech and Who Decides?

These days political thought is indistinguishable from religious rhetoric. So many looking to assert the moral ground upon which we all must stand or be banished. The mistake made is to embrace the idea that the digital space is real life or even matters that much.

Joe Janes 2/24/21 Joe Janes 2/24/21

Upon This Hill I Shall Die, America!

We, the true chosen-by-God followers of our chosen-by-God president are taking our chosen-by-God country back!

Don Hall 2/23/21 Don Hall 2/23/21

Why Can't We Just Share the Last Slice of Pizza?

No, it is neither race nor gender that is the engine of inequity. It’s almost entirely economic class.

Don Hall 2/22/21 Don Hall 2/22/21

I Believe... [Rush Who?]

I believe... that hearing that Rush Limbaugh has passed on affects me much in the same way as when I hear about someone I heard yelling about something once in a high school auditorium and then promptly blocked the memory from existence.

Guest User 2/21/21 Guest User 2/21/21

Night Out, 2025

Is it Friday? A day hazing over fast into the good long while of night. Both are so happy to have had themselves. To have been connected.

This was an age after the rooftop days were over. Removed and exposed from the vantage of twenty-or-more stories.

Don Hall 2/20/21 Don Hall 2/20/21

How Zero Tolerance Policies in the 1990s Caused Our Modern Puritanism

Isabella would be roughly thirty-six years old now and would classify as a Millennial. Her kids are the pro typical Gen Z crowd. Both she and her kids seem to operate still with this zero tolerance policy in mind. They have become the hall monitors for their collegiate experience, the snitches of social media, and the ‘Karens’ of every Walmart and Starbucks in America.

David Himmel 2/19/21 David Himmel 2/19/21

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of February 14, 2021

Poor white people love people like Trump because they’re two sides of the same coin. They both live completely sheltered lives and both believe the lie of American Exceptionalism. The wealthier side of the coin believes that they were born into that exceptionalism because they deserved it and the poorer side believes that one day, they, too will be exceptional.

Jenni Thurston 2/18/21 Jenni Thurston 2/18/21

The Blessing: A Novel Excerpt

Today Sol will either die or be Blessed with magic. It all depends on the quality of her sacrifice.

Please enjoy Chapter One of my current project, Scorned.

Joe Janes 2/17/21 Joe Janes 2/17/21

New Pandemic Toys for Kids!

Speak ‘n’ Spell ‘n’ Eat or Die Spell words correctly and get a small meal-replacement treat.

Don Hall 2/17/21 Don Hall 2/17/21

Wandavision is the Most Woke Television Program in History

Granted, as of this writing, only six episodes have been aired. Likewise granted, given my immense love for all things Marvel, I’m loving every second.

One of the big questions of the chattering class is Who is the Big Bad?

Elizabeth Harper 2/16/21 Elizabeth Harper 2/16/21

I Love You and I Want You to Suck My Dick

I hate all your ugly, stupid, too fat, too thin, too short, too tall,
too rich, too poor, too humorless, too pathetic, too unintellectual,
too pedestrian, too suburban, too mainstream, too short-sighted,
too ignorant, too conniving, too dishonest, too two-faced,
TOO UGLY girlfriends.

Don Hall 2/15/21 Don Hall 2/15/21

I Believe... [ Grogu is the Unifier]

...that the fact that we all find Grogu fucking adorable indicates that we all are far more similar than we are different.

Don Hall 2/13/21 Don Hall 2/13/21

Advice Unsolicited | The Cost of Virtue

There’s a story in the Bible—I’m paraphrasing it here—where a woman goes to prayer every day and prays loudly and obviously. She makes such a noise in her show of virtue and piety that another woman goes to Jesus and asks if making that much of a show is going to get the signaler’s prays answered more quickly. “She has already received her reward, so fuck no. Here's a loaf of bread and a fish. Now scram.”