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How to avoid politics: you can’t. So, to get this over with: the conservative viewpoint is a default perspective for those who lack imagination. There can be good conservatives, who take what’s left when you get rid of imagination which is called history, stuff that’s already happened, and they can look at failures in history…
My fingernails are too long. Is why I’m not writing right now. My keyboard dexterity is fingertip-based. The nails get in the way. Another busy week means I’ve put off cutting the nails. My cats’, too, their nails are too long. Incidentally painful, they’re not even trying to inflict it, they reach out for a…
What is the worst. Here is a woman in a car with her phone ready. I will not watch the video but from the headlines I know she was ready for something like this. Her boyfriend has been pulled over and this is the life she lives now, the combination of the instant-access media culture…
Now here comes the exciting part. The Penguins won the first game of the Stanley Cup tonight. I mention this because I live in Pittsburgh and the thrill of watching it is a temporary one. I am here but I don’t feel I belong here. Like at Central Florida, it was a fine college for…
Words, words, come to me, words. I’m typing in my wedding ring. Just to see how it goes. I’ve been wearing it off and on. Mostly the thought is don’t lose it, don’t let it fall off. It’s a little loose, see, but I couldn’t bear it any tighter. Apart from horses, it turns out…
One of my friends, like a real-life friend, just posted a comment fight he had with a conservative friend-of-a-Facebook-friend over the issue of transsexual access to restrooms. I remember talking with an online friend once and I said My kids will not watch television, it’s a huge waste of time and intellect and it stiffens…
“Freedom from trade unions and collective bargaining means the freedom to suppress wages. Freedom from regulation means the freedom to poison rivers, endanger workers, charge iniquitous rates of interest and design exotic financial instruments. Freedom from tax means freedom from the distribution of wealth that lifts people out of poverty.” — “Neoliberalism – the ideology…
Cooper sleeps. He wants back in the bedroom but I won’t let him. It’s a strange schedule this week, my regular day off a day on, so this turns into a writing night when otherwise it isn’t one. And I have nothing. I’m spent. Four years ago I was just getting settled into a job…
It’ll come down to having a schedule. That will be key. That will be the key. Gretchen isn’t here tonight and if things go as planned she won’t be here often in the future and I need to prepare. For the lonely nights. I told her I don’t get lonely anymore, I just get alone,…
I missed two days. That was it, and then i got the prescription refilled. But I’m dealing with a darkness now, week and a half maybe, maybe longer, hard to say when these things start. You can’t tell if it’s just a bad mood or a poor sleep or what. But then it doesn’t go away.…
Aaron M. Fortkamp 