“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” – John Steinbeck Eschew Obfuscation – By Michael Douglass – Gas is at three bucks a gallon. Unemployment is under 6 percent and the stock market is through the roof. Everything Republicans say they…
Eschew Obfuscation – By Michael Douglass – We are this close to the midterm elections and the goddamn GOP is about to close it hard on irrational fear. Isis and Ebola. Fear porn. How did we get here? Completely random elaborately imagined clusterfucks that would not survive the advent of oxygen or sunlight if applied.…
Eschew Obfuscation – By Michael Douglass – I still remember vinyl. The whole audio visual experience of riding my bike to the record store, buying a vinyl album, bringing it home, removing the shrink wrap, putting it on the turntable. I remember setting the needle down, reading the liner notes, the smell of polyvinyl chloride…
Eschew Obfuscation – By Michael Douglass – Guess what pisses me off? It’s a rhetorical question. Precious liberals who quake at the very notion of Obama being anything less than the liberal messiah. I am sick of this shit. I criticize our savior and panty waste liberals piss themselves over my abhorrent blasphemy. I’m an…
Eschew Obfuscation – By Michael Douglass – Wow. It’s like deja vu all over again. One nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all, has been at war for all but 21 years in its 238 year existence. Sheezus. The talking heads tell us there’s no way air strikes alone will extinguish the latest…
Eschew Obfuscation – By Michael Douglass – Wanna know what puts the fear of God in me? Just how many goddamn self righteous all knowing mouth breathers in this country that still cling to the archaic notion that the earth is only two or six thousand years old. The people who maintain with a straight…
Eschew Obfuscation – By Michael Douglass – You are here. No closer. I keep paying attention to this. I keep pointing it out. There is just enough to keep the women and kids all fired up. Just enough to make us all afraid of things we don’t understand. Things they aren’t about to explain. We…
Eschew Obfuscation – By Michael Douglass – I get it she says. I understand she tells me. All those hoses and belts, all the tubes and valves, all those wires and lines that are leaking and spraying so much sorrow and doom and that man thought four or five times more and four or five…
Eschew Obfuscation – By Michael Douglass – I guess I’m naive. It was obviously a mistake to open my head and heart and share my thoughts on something as profoundly controversial as the Israeli Palestinian conflict. A mistake to speak out against war in general and this one in particular. In hindsight it occurs to…
Eschew Obfuscation – By Michael Douglass – I’m a little embarrassed. I do hope you enjoy my etchings because of my unapologetic approach when taking on the big issues. I just love the big cats. I confess I’ve been hiding on this one. My reluctance is informed by personal relationships and the deafening heat of…
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Eschew Obfuscation – By Michael Douglass – What special…
Mildred: Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against? Johnny: Whadda you got? – The Wild One, 1953 – Eschew Obfuscation – By Michael Douglass – I used to be young and idealistic. Now I have no idea what to make of it. It’s not even policy or ideology anymore. It’s dogma fueled brinkmanship. Or, it’s…
nig·gard·ly [nig-erd-lee] adjective – 1. reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly. – 2. meanly or ungenerously small or scanty: a niggardly tip to a waiter. – Eschew Obfuscation – By Michael Douglass – Racism is alive and well in America. But it’s not your father’s racism. It’s yours. It manifests differently. Just as overt.…
Eschew Obfuscation – By Michael Douglass – I find myself battling with the insouciant left more these days than with the ignorant right. It bugs me. It’s not that I don’t understand. Egregious acts against humanity every day. Business as usual. Drones. Corporate lawyers being appointed to the judiciary. No prosecution of the pigs at…
