Toleration

I’m reading John Gray’s “Enlightenment’s Wake.” The only other book I’ve read by him is “Straw Dogs,” which effected me deeply. “Enlightenment’s Wake” hasn’t gotten its hold on me, save for this passage I read last [...]

B&N hires illegals, then fucks them

Worker exploitation does not only happen in 3rd world countries. It happens right here too.

A Barnes and Noble warehouse in Reno announced the firing of 50 known illegal immigrants after a routine audit by US Immigration and Customs requested I-9′s for all the warehouse employees. All of these workers were unable to provide immigration status [...]

tongue twisters for Chesley “Sulley” Sullenberger

My own personal odes to the danville “hero”.

Sullen Sulley Sullenberger sends and sells silly soliloquies some sundays south of Soledad.

Soulful Sulley Sullenberger sips sodas and slowly sings songs about solenoids.

Silly Sulley Sullenberger sees Sy Cyclops some Saturdays. They sing soul songs, slurp soup and seek sick sluts sulking stupidly.

Suddenly securing squishy solenoids, Sulley [...]

unfinished story

JJ took all the rings off her left hand before she slid it in between the iron bars of the security gate. Twisting and contorting her arm until her elbow pushed through the narrow gap and was able to bend freely, she stretched for the door handle. Her fingers groped at the air like a [...]

Stuffed & Starved

This is not a cheery, feel good book regardless of what the back cover blurbs say. Being hungry and getting fed is serious business for everyone—the starving farmer, GMO seed companies, the multi-national distributors and the end consumer. Raj Patel gets right down to the meaty heart of the most under reported and least understood of all the vital services—food—its production, transportation and [...]