Tag: weekly news

The Toxic Solution of Trumpism

Posted on by Joseph C. Kolkas in Politics, Weekly news

I read an analysis in The Washington Post recently which recounted quite well, over the last ten years or so, out-and-out Republican efforts to obstruct the operation of the very government to which they were elected—discussing/passing legislation, approving judges—if it was deemed, in the end, to somehow benefit the Democratic Party.  This, of course, included … Continue reading The Toxic Solution of Trumpism →

Their Headlines, My Headlines (January 26, 2024)

Posted on by Joseph C. Kolkas in Weekly news

Can you tell by the headline that I’ve been devolving into my own atomic, hermetic, marginal bubble of outrage and self-importance?  That I’m now looking at the news under a figurative lamplight for maybe ten minutes and then turning around and shouting at everyone who’ll listen (on the internet) the real meaning behind it all? … Continue reading Their Headlines, My Headlines (January 26, 2024) →

Steam Whistle News Feed – January 12, 2024

Posted on by Joseph C. Kolkas in Weekly news

Welcome to the New Year.  Of the rest of your life.  You know that time only moves forward, right? Like, forever? Until your dead? I see people talking about making every day count, calling out others who waste their time, doing one thing every day that scares them. All the while trying to un-memento that … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – January 12, 2024 →

Nobody Knows History, Nobody Understands Context

Posted on by Joseph C. Kolkas in Ideas, Weekly news

At my first ever, week-long summer church camp (I was 11 and a practicing Lutheran), I and the token skater/heavy metal kid of the lot—who used a ballpoint pen to tattoo the letters O-Z-Z-Y on his knuckles once a day—were tasked with being in charge of setting up viewing of the afternoon’s film, a sort … Continue reading Nobody Knows History, Nobody Understands Context →

Steam Whistle News Feed – October 20, 2023

Posted on by Joseph C. Kolkas in Weekly news

Hey, Neighbor!  How’s it going?  Heading out for a weekend trip?  Can you believe these gas prices still?  Thanks a lot, Sleepy Joe, am I right?  Like I always say, if a Republican were president, you know gas would be, like, five dollars a gallon cheaper.  Well, because Republicans always lower gas prices.  It’s, like, … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – October 20, 2023 →

Steam Whistle News Feed – October 13, 2023

Posted on by Joseph C. Kolkas in Weekly news

Say you’re just starting out.  Doesn’t matter what you’re doing.  Anything.  Constructing a human being, say.  Better yet—a robot, one with a complete and totally spot-on human anatomy.  And you know nothing about anatomy, yourself, say. You're like one of those tribal priests of the indigenous Kogis in modern-day Colombia, who grew up in a … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – October 13, 2023 →

Welcome to The Way of The World

Posted on by Joseph C. Kolkas in Politics, Weekly news

There’s a throwaway scene in the 2019 Romanian documentary Collective, where the country's new Minister of Health is watching a news show on television, and, at a podium, the mayor of Bucharest is denouncing the decision made by the administration to send patients to Vienna for transplant surgeries, and not maintain the patients in Romania … Continue reading Welcome to The Way of The World →

Steam Whistle News Feed – July 14, 2023

Posted on by Joseph C. Kolkas in Weekly news

I know it seems like I’m doomsday picking and preaching these days—that all I want is to talk about the most general and large-scale, worst-case scenario news headlines, and then cynically and half-assedly rattle them in your face like I’m some kind of know-it-all toddler who seems to get his jollies that way. This world … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – July 14, 2023 →

Steam Whistle News Feed – July 7, 2023

Posted on by Joseph C. Kolkas in Weekly news

Reading the daily news disgusts me. There, I said it. It's reached the point of where I feel like I'm living out the abattoir metaphor whenever I do. Which I'm just making up, right now, but hear me out. Do you eat meat? And if you do, do you prepare it yourself—“harvest” it from scratch—or … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – July 7, 2023 →

Steam Whistle News Feed – June 9, 2023

Posted on by Joseph C. Kolkas in Weekly news

You know, you do a thing long enough, one which involves not only seeing much of the same dry, dull unpleasantness day in and day out—but also injustice, inequity, unfairness and various ways of indirect and direct silencing—and you start to get cynical.  I’m starting to get cynical.  Or maybe I’m just bored.  I don’t … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – June 9, 2023 →

Steam Whistle News Feed – May 26, 2023

Posted on by Joseph C. Kolkas in Weekly news

My 18-year-old cat got mauled by a dog on Monday, so I don’t want to be d--king around too much this week.  She’s going to be okay they tell me, eventually, but I’m going to try my best to cut through the crap of important/not-so-important news, because life is short.  Especially for a cat. And … Continue reading Steam Whistle News Feed – May 26, 2023 →