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Musings of Recluse and Notes on Further Programming
I am pleased to announce my first formal podcast. It was conducted by Jasun Horsley of the fabulous Auticulture. The podcast has been split into two parts, the first of which was published on Saturday....
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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '16
To describe the 2016 US Presidential Election as bizarre would be beyond a gross understatement. It is completely bat shit crazy with seemingly no real contemporary parallel. Some have attempted to...
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The Soft Doctrines of Memphis Sam Part I
"The oyster boys are swimming nowHear them chatter on the tideOf the lost and language lostHear them chatter on the tide"--"Blue Oyster Cult," Blue Oyster Cult2016 will surely been remembered as a grim...
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The Soft Doctrines of Memphis Sam Part II
Welcome to the second installment in my examination of the Imaginos cycle of legendary rock producer, manager and lyricist Sandy "Memphis Sam" Pearlman. Pearlman, who recently shed his mortal coil on...
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The Soft Doctrines of Memphis Sam Part III
Welcome to the third installment in my examination of the Imaginos cycle from recently departed rock producer/manager/lyricist Sandy "Memphis Sam" Pearlman. Pearlman is primarily known for work with...
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The Soft Doctrines of Memphis Sam Part IV
"Call me Desdenova, eternal light"--"Astronomy," Blue Oyster CultWelcome to the fourth installment in my examination of the Imaginos song cycle of recently deceased producer/manager/lyricist Sandy...
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The Soft Doctrines of Memphis Sam Part V
"So ladies, fish and gentlemanHere's my angled dream:To see me in the blue sky bagAnd meet me by the sea"--"Blue Oyster Cult," Blue Oyster CultWelcome to the fifth and final installment in my...
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The 11/9 Days and the Weiner Surprise
Here in these United States, many Americans are looking forward to November 9, 2016 and for good reason: This will be first day after the 2016 US Presidential Election. This election has easily been...
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All Over But the Screaming
The "unthinkable" has officially happened: Donald Trump was declared the forty-fifth President of these United States during the early morning of November 9, 2016 (November 9 is a day with much...
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Trump, the JSOC and the Legacy of ARTICHOKE
"On the terminal pointOf the cul-de-sacPatients are dyingThe horses are dazedFrom the glare of the starsThe starry wisdomOwned by the BaronAnd he's got the cureA drug by the name of World Without...
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The Return of the ASC Part I
One of the most striking and ominous aspects of the rise of The Donald has been the vigorous resurgence of the old American Security Council (ASC) network and their allies. The ASC itself is of course...
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The Return of the ASC Part II
Welcome to the second installment in my look at the resurgence of the old American Security Council (ASC) network in conjunction with the rise of The Donald. Nowadays the ASC is largely a marginal...
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Knives Out
"I hear all the paranoid discussionsTrying to distract me from my functionsBut I don't care what they sayI'm not afraid of the Russians"-- "March of the Chrome Police," ChromeIt seems like every day...
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Fringe: The Strange and Terrible History of the Far Right and High Weirdness...
On August 5, 2012, something rather strange and terrible unfolded in the town of Oak Creek, Wisconsin. One Wade Michael Page, a military veteran, marched into a Sikh temple there and open fired on the...
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Fringe: The Strange and Terrible History of the Far Right and High Weirdness...
Welcome to the second installment in my examination of the ties between the far right and high weirdness from the Cold War era till present. In this context, I am using the phrase "high weirdness" as a...
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Fringe: The Strange and Terrible History of the Far Right and High Weirdness...
Welcome to the third installment in my examination of the murky netherworld of the far right and high weirdness. In this context I am using the phrase "high weirdness" as a stand-in for a host of...
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Fringe: The Strange and Terrible History of the Far Right Part IV
Welcome to the fourth installment in my examination of the bizarre overlap between the far right and high weirdness. Both topics are murky netherworlds and I have found it useful to outline either at...
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Fringe: The Strange and Terrible History of the Far Right and High Weirdness...
Welcome to the sixth installment in my examination of the bizarre relationship the far right have to high weirdness. Over the course this series the far right has been considered through the prism of...
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Trumped --Updated: The Calls for a Coup Begin
Bashing the intellect of Donald J. Trump has quickly become a major America past time. And there certainly is no more vigorous a participant in this latest fad than the American press. Every word...
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Secret Wars: Vatican Edition
In 2014, Pope Francis made enigmatic comments about the possibility that he had only "two to three years left to live." Virtually everyone attributed these comments to the possibility that the then-77...
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