The Best Ladder and the Wrong Wall The Afghanistan War was always supposed to be invisible. After the initial fanfare of our cimmerian payback following the 9/11 attacks, it hid away into the depths where it always meant to be. The Iraq War was the same. Remember the exuberant media…

Jeff Bezos never came back to Earth. He can still be seen up there, if you look closely on a night with no moon — the Amazon logo like the fading stain left behind a shooting star. When he and his younger brother boarded the New Shepard — the rocket…

I guess it wouldn’t have been long before he’d be found eventually. You can’t just wander off into the designated frontier, and never be seen again. I imagine this guy Rocco hoped to only be found by the right people, the people who would pity him and give him food…and…

On May 21st, 2020, just two months into the COVID-19 pandemic, with incredible economic devastation still to come, the Foreign Relations Committee passed a bill to give Israel a minimum of $38 billion over the next ten years, about $10 million per day, shuffled out of our coffers like piñata…

DUSTY: What does that mean, “in-famous”? NED: Ohh Dusty. “In-famous” is when you’re more than famous. This man, El Guapo, is not just famous, he’s in-famous. -Three Amigos What would it be like to be rich and famous, you wonder. Or rather, what does it mean? If in their final…

It’s a new year, you remind yourself. New beginnings, not just for you, but for the country, the world, the hapless gentry of mediocrity that weighs down on you every second of the day. A Democrat is going to be president again, you tell yourself, and although he’s not perfect…

The fog parted just enough, and I could see the thinnest sliver of moon hang right over the edge of the mountain, setting about the same time as the sun, the broken yolk of sunset spilled through the doorway of fog. Everything was so dry. The oak trees looked tired…

Some years ago, I roared off in the middle of the night, driving the thousand miles from Los Angeles to Aspen in order to catch the ballet in time. I would have to drive fast to make it, in this very old Mercedes that was barely hanging onto life. Because…

George Floyd: Bringing The War Home All I know is first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say, “I’m a human being, goddammit. My life has value.” So I want you to get up now…I want you to go to the window, open it, and stick your head…