Steam Whistle News Feed – April 28, 2023

…And four more things this week.  Maybe five.  Or six.  I don’t really know how to frame this stuff, to be honest.  I think I had something, but then lost it somewhere along the way.  To me, the issues represented here are glaring, but to many they're not, and I don’t know how to—nor would … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – April 28, 2023

Steam Whistle News Feed – April 14, 2023

Just a quick four things this week.  Why?  Because apparently I’m obligated to fulfill a quota, because I’m paid by people to do a thing, and those people have expectations that maybe are never said outright or defined explicitly or even set down on paper in some form of legally binding contract but nonetheless are … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – April 14, 2023

Steam Whistle News Feed – April 7, 2023

There were two equally disturbing things that made the news this week, between which, despite their having occurred thousands of miles from each another, I found a striking and disturbing parallel. The first was the release of video of a young Muslim being gruesomely massacred by security forces in Ouahigouya, the capital of Yatenga Province … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – April 7, 2023

The Little-Government, Big Governing Bodies That Could (March 17, 2023)

There’s likely not a worse misstep in publicly shooting-your-mouth-off-when-no-one-asked these days than equating some collective or governing body with the likes of Nazi Germany; the backlash is almost always widespread and forthcoming, regardless of the issue you’re shooting at. I mean, unless the people you’re accusing are actually f---ing Nazis, or something in arguably the … Continue reading The Little-Government, Big Governing Bodies That Could (March 17, 2023)

Steam Whistle News Feed – March 10, 2023

I was called into the office of my editor the other day, and she told me—my editor, this—that she had been called into the office of her editor, after he had been called into the office of his, after this gentleman (whoever he is) had been called into a meeting with his superior, the CCO, … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – March 10, 2023

Steam Whistle News Feed – February 17, 2023

Against my better judgment, I wanted to talk solely about two things this week, two things that sum up much of what kind of spurious gruel the world’s figurative fat-cat trenchermen and their private chefs are cooking up and serving to people.  And like the little Dickensian, grime-faced, wall-licking orphans we are, starving for a … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – February 17, 2023

Yellow Snow & Other Similarly-Hued Important Life Avoidances

The color yellow causes insanity.  It’s a scientific fact.  And if you think I’m exaggerating about that, well I am.  But only a little.  Babies also cry more in yellow rooms.  What does that mean?  I’m not sure, but if you don’t want your baby to turn into Jeffrey Dahmer or Lindsay Lohan when they … Continue reading Yellow Snow & Other Similarly-Hued Important Life Avoidances

Steam Whistle News Feed – February 3, 2023

For those of you familiar with America’s history in befuddling or outright superplexing the rightfully-elected governments of Third World democracies during much of the 20th Century, particularly when those democracies leaned too far left, you may think America’s looking pretty good these days. And you may think it’s looking absolutely stellar when compared with what’s … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – February 3, 2023

The Masquerade Ball of Politics (January 20, 2023)

You have to understand something about politics: Every single person involved in a political discussion or an effort to draft a bill, at any one given point in time, believes the points or issues they’re arguing are “right,” and everything else is wrong—infallibly, into perpetuity and written on the wall inside one of God’s own, private bathroom stalls ...

Steam Whistle News Feed – December 30, 2022

It was the end of the year this week, for those of us who choose to follow a Gregorian calendar.  To our graves.  I mean, as opposed to a Chinese calendar.  Which will lead you to a grave, eventually, sure.  It’ll just take it a couple more months.  Or something like that.  It’s been personally … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – December 30, 2022

Steam Whistle News Feed – December 9, 2022

What is the news, if it’s not broadcast with some form of ulterior motive?  Has this ever been the case?  Ever?  Don't know. Don’t think so.  For the organism in question is forever holistically tied to what fuels it and maintains its growth. Mass media is a publicly traded business. And all such businesses fundamentally … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – December 9, 2022

Steam Whistle News Feed – November 18, 2022

So, this week it’ll be back to news on Trump.  Like he were the g--damn president again.  Which you can better believe he won’t be.  Not ever again.  My money's on his not even getting the nomination in 2024.  Plenty of Republican candidates are already pointing out how bad he was for the country, and … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – November 18, 2022

Steam Whistle News Feed – November 4, 2022

What’s wrong with the world today?  That’s me, asking a rhetorical question in response to an actual question that no one actually posed to me, which goes something like, ‘Hey, a--hole, what do you think is wrong with the world today?’  I mean, in those specific words I’ve never been asked it. In so many … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – November 4, 2022

Steam Whistle News Feed – October 21, 2022

It’s election season now in America.  Or has been for the last month, maybe.  That’s about when the candidate flyers started to asphyxiate my mailbox—people who didn’t engage in any political activity the past two years looking to unseat someone in the state legislature or Congress, because hundreds of thousands in outside dollars wants them … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – October 21, 2022

Steam Whistle News Feed – September 30, 2022

Let’s talk about the fascist state.  By which I mean, let me talk about the fascist state. Not of yesteryear, not of days long gone, but of today.  Fascist state meaning fascist government, nation, ruling party—fascism out in the open, trying to hide itself as, what?  Nationalism?  Populism?  Nativism?  Freedom from oppression and tyranny?  Self-rule?  … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – September 30, 2022

Steam Whistle News Feed – September 16, 2022

I haven’t seriously looked at the news in over a week and a half.  Is it true that burnout is directly correlated to intent?  I don’t know.  It’s probably correlated more to duration, which involves prolonged intent.  At any rate, I know I didn’t view the general, erstwhile-worthwhile news as anathema before I began to … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – September 16, 2022