 Monish Chatterjee: Harry- My Heart is Down, Lost in Kingstontown A narrative poem as my heartfelt tribute to the legendary composer, lyricist, musician and lifelong human rights and social justice activist- Harry Belafonte. There will never be another quite like him. 1  |
 Philip Kraske: Democracy is Dying for Another Party If there were more than the two fat and complaisant political parties, passions might have channeled properly and people might not charge the Capitol. |
 John Hawkins: Sonnet: Democracy in a Fugue State The daily sonnet ponders our pathological forgetfulness, as monsters move in, and the dawn of the Enlightenment becomes dusk. . |
 John Hawkins: Sonnet: Democracy, The Peanut Gallery Sonnet: Democracy, The Peanut Gallery. The daily sonnet recalls the antics of the Marx brothers and their subversive antics that were subversive. Peanuts to us. |
 John Hawkins: Sonnet: Think Free Or Die Tyranny always ends the same -- by the same -- before we're free again. The daily sonnet addresses the slow creep backwards toward the Dark Ages. . 1 |
 John Hawkins: Sonnet: J'Accuse, Mea Culpa, Freedom's Debauchery Sonnet: J'Accuse, Mea Culpa, Freedom's Debauchery. The daily sonnet mulls and rues the leadership and humanity we threw away. But I could always be wrong. |
 John Hawkins: The Powell Mystique (free verse poem) The Powell Mystique (free verse poem). The daily sonnet lets his here down for a moment of silence. As if. (In this crazy world.) 2 |
 John Hawkins: Sonnet: Laudanum My Ass: I Want My Money Back Sonnet: Laudanum My Ass: I Want My Money Back. The daily sonnet ponders what the f*ck we're gonna do as a species without a moral center persuading us to do the right thing. |
 John Hawkins: Gitmo: I Am, I Am, I Am, I Am, I Am Gitmo: I Am, I Am, I Am, I Am, I Am. The Poets and Artists of Gitmo need to be set free now. Torture them until they are an artist community. The new mandate from Congress. |
 John Hawkins: Sonnet: No, I Really Didn't Kill Anybody Sonnet: No, I Really Didn't Kill Anybody. The daily sonneyt considers a future for humans controlled by the AIs we build blindly. |
 John Hawkins: Freed Verse: Two-Minute Hates: Reality 101 Freed Verse: Two-Minute Hates: Reality 101. The endless MSM diatribes against the vanquished boffo King Trump remind one of the power of hatred. What a species. I need a drink. |
 Ethan Indigo Smith: The Esoteric Answer to The Riddle of The Sphinx The actual and inspirational Esoteric Answer to The Riddle of The Sphinx via The Fourth Initiate principle. |
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John Hawkins: Sonnet: The Altered States of "Man" Ahead
Sonnet: The Altered States of "Man" Ahead. The daily sonnet continues. Today, we get our t*ts wet over the nature of "Man." |
 John Hawkins: Book Review: Snowden's ToolBox Book Review: Snowden's ToolBox. Bruder wrote Nomadland. This account here tells of the box of docs she received from Snowden before he fled to Hing Kong and how it ended up with Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald. It's an interesting book and worth the read. It dishes on The Intercept and how it failed its co-founders, especially Poitras. |
 John Hawkins: Chauvinist Cops and the Just Is System that Enables Them Book Review: Above the Law by Ben Cohen. A review of the notion of Qualified Immunity as it applies to the Derek Chauvin case and by extension to all the cases of police brutality protected by a stupid law that usurps the 14th Amendment. Even as I was writing the piece another Black person -- 13 year old Adam Toledo -- was shot in Chicago, riots ensued. |
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John Hawkins: Sonnet: Carnivalesque Animals on Parade
Sonnet: Carnivalesque Animals on Parade. The daily sonnet. Today Noam Chomsky gets a hat tip and the rise of horror gets a hmmm. |
 The Music Streaming Debate: What the Artists, Songwriters and Industry Insiders Say Ahead of the release of a parliamentary report into the issue, notable figures from the industry have told the Guardian that music labels were perpetuating issues that need to be urgently addressed, including a system that still prioritises rights owners over artists. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Commons select committee has been examining whether the business models used by major s... |
 John Hawkins: Six Sonnets:The Land of Contradictions Six Sonnets:The Land of Contradictions. The daily sonnet quest continues. Today a six-pack set of sonnets on the dark and malevolent forces that control some democracies. |
 John Hawkins: Sonnet: Sons of Gun Control Sonnet: Sons of Gun Control, More from my Daily Sonnet Project. Here we make the pitch for America the Beautiful to replace that godawful military number that gets people in trouble if they take a knee to it. Damn. Maybe that's why Chauvin did it. Hmm, I feel another sonnet coming on. |
 John Hawkins: 3 Sonnets: The Cathedral Made of Gargoyles SUNDAY TRIPLE SONNET: The Cathedral Made of Gargoyles. I read last year somewhere that priests used to around with their censers smoking in the old church days because -- pew -- everybody smelled, sometimes going months, maybe years without a bath or shower, onnacounta there wasn't any plumbing. And now we take that pot pourri for granted, although we still sit in pews. Some still don't shower, if you ask me, even with pipes. 1 |
 Bob Johnson: Women and the "Holy" Books For too long the misogynistic teachings in all of the "holy" books of the "revealed" religions have gone unchallenged. It's time for a change! 10 |
 John Hawkins: Biden: The Second Coming of Obama Nation Book Review: The Center Did Not Hold by Robert Eisenberg. This book (OR Books) is more or s less a checklist of all the policy promises that Obama made and, together with Biden as his Veep, failed to keep. It's a sad litany of corruption and deceit, although not an analytical work as much as the balance sheet it purports to be. 3 |
 Irene Fowler: Election Fraud - A Sonnet A Prince of darkness wails To the loser belongs the spoils War on truth and reality Reality and truth decapitated A solution in search of a problem No problem, election fraud will do! 4 |
 John Hawkins: America's Penis Envy of the Nazis STREAMING TV SERIES REVIEW: This is a compare/contrast review of two anti-Nazi TV series, Hunters and The Plot Against America. Both are well worth the watch/ Pacono is epecially effective in his role in Hunters. But John Turturro is magnificent as a conflicted rabbi in Plot. 3 |
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John Hawkins: Becoming Universal Soldiers of Resistance to Fascist Thinking: Chomsky on Extinction
BOOK/LECTURE REVIEW: Internationalism or Extinction by Noam Chomsky. The title says it all, and then Chomsky, whose name sounds like food-for-thought, says more. Mangia! 6 |
 John Hawkins: Cogito Ergo Sum: I Think Not (Part 3): The Mighty Whitey Becomes as God Creative Non-Fiction: A Creation Story: In the Beginning Was the Mighty Whitey. Part 3 of 3. The peculiarities of our species is drawn with some levity and mirth. Things weren't right from the Beginning and I try to explain why. Ordinarily, blasphemy might be in play, but ever since Nietzsche murdered God and postmodernism says nothing is true it's all permitted (nod to Jim Carroll Band, Catholic Boy) here we are at the End... 1 |
 Irene Fowler: "Let them drink bleach" - A political satire sketch A political satire sketch, laying bare the spiritual and moral bankruptcy of Trumpism. 11 |
 John Hawkins: Cogito Ergo Sum? I Think Not, Part 2: The Rise of the Counterculture: Adam Fights Back A Creation Story: In the Beginning Was the Mighty Whitey: From Adam to the Z Generation. A history of Up Yours. Middle-Finger Blues. How we got from Eden to Socrates to American Exceptionalist democracy and the Lesser of Two Evils, skipping all the ads. 2 |
 John Hawkins: Cogito Ergo Sum: I Think Not Creative Non-Fiction: A Creation Story: In the Beginning Was the Mighty Whitey. Part 1 of 3. The peculiarities of our species is drawn with some levity and mirth. Things weren't right from the Beginning and I try to explain why. Ordinarily, blasphemy might be in play, but ever since Nietzsche murdered God and postmodernism says nothing is true it's all permitted (nod to Jim Carroll Band, Catholic Boy) here we are at the End... 1 |
 John Hawkins: Poem: Obama Was Right (Obama Was Not Left) Poem: Obama Was Right. Here's a poem offering, a response to the election and its myriad meanings unpacked. I offer solutions in verse. Bring humor with you or don't bother. 3 |
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