GENKAKU-AGAIN (adam fisher)

Let me get this straight: My country is run on moral cowardice And you expect me to be a patriot. Is that it?

If asked, I imagine those who waxed in the 20th century might point to the internet as the single biggest game-changer. Culture, relationsh...

Writing requires friction -- point A in tandem with or juxtaposed to point B. But where the sense of friction is lost, so the desire/drive ...

In the midst of the impeachment tsunami that reared its roaring head last week in the U.S. House of Representatives, there are innumerable ...

Suddenly, there is no turning on the news without some new bit of information about the impeachment hearings , hopes, trajectories against ...

Shards and snippets.... It's not so much, "I think , therefore I am" I suspect, but rather, "I want , therefore I am....

All things have a price – and if not, economists will find one. Researchers have calculated the going rate for thoughts and prayers off...

Beware the feral pigs: They fuck like bunnies and are invading the U.S. from the north! They may or may not be a walking billboard for th...

Just get it straight. There is magic everywhere. Stop pretending it exists. Or doesn't.

A 77-year-old British woman has become the oldest person to sail around the world alone, non-stop, and unassisted. Jeanne Socrates, fr...

Passed along in email: What If We Stopped Pretending? The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we ca...

At least 25 dogs in Norway have fallen victim to the undiagnosed sickness , which causes severe vomiting and acute diarrhoea. Photogra...

I have to admit to a half-assed and ill-informed nosiness about the death of Jeffrey Epstein , a billionaire who procured (with assistance)...

The ocean off the western coast of North America is five degrees Fahrenheit hotter than usual after warming at an unusually rapid rate, ...

Watching a TV program about the history of bluegrass music on TV last night, it became clear to me that I would prefer it if the word ...

Big news out of Texas this week: sending unsolicited penis pictures is now against the law, punishable by a $500 fine. You might be wo...

Gaggles of tarantulas are emerging from their burrows across the western US on a quest to mate, hunting for love in prairies, foothill...

Smoke and mirrors -- Mideast department: Jason Greenblatt, the Trump administration’s special envoy for Middle East peace, tasked with w...

Chickens, it may be observed, do not go to dentists. This is largely true because chickens have no teeth. Instead, like other fowl of the...

Open a Twitter account? VOTE FOR TRUMP Moral cowardice is an unattractive presidential characteristic. Make America great ... for a chan...

Scientists say they have finally cracked the problem of repairing tooth enamel. Though enamel is the hardest tissue in the body, it can...

A " huge drugs bust " at Gatwick airport turned into an upside-down cake when 25 bags of white powder turned out to be vegan pizz...

In pursuit of heaven, you have to raise a little hell. As zippy as this observation may be, still, from where I sit, its invitation is ...

Frances Crowe, a widget tornado of peace activism , died Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019, here in Northampton. She was 100. In her wake, there is ...

A friend passed along this Washington Post rewrite about the unveiling of a robotic Buddhist priest at a Japanese temple. Since fewer and...

Call me a political novice, but.... U.S. President Donald Trump is currently out of the country, hobnobbing with other members of the s...

Lightning strikes injured six people (none fatally) at a championship golfing tour in Atlanta, Ga., Saturday. Multiple spectators wer...

“Over the last six months, the single largest organization that has spent money on Facebook ads promoting Donald Trump and Donald Trump’s...

Like a scalpel lightly applied to epidermal flesh, intimations of mortality snuck into consciousness the other day as I hugged my older s...

Perhaps it shows nothing of the sort, but based on a rising police-officer-suicide rate , I would guess that it takes real balls to be we...