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August 2026 | Eyesore
We continue the summer disquisition on a very particular issue of urban design: the fence — because it is the small details that add up to a big picture of how your town presents itself — and how that presentation makes you feel. Last month...
Everybody Knows
Dr. Fauci Swearing to Tell the Truth
The baleful afterburn of Dr. Fauci’s one-sentence testimony (“On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer. . . .”) seeps over the land like some ghastly pestilence now. You couldn’t have...
The Curse It is Cast
However you cut this Fauci business, one thing Americans have learned is how slippery and treacherous this thing called The Law has become. You saw it in the sundry Trump prosecutions of 2024, too — a marvelous demonstration of how to play...
Will the "Fat Lady" Finally Sing?
Dr. Anthony Fauci in Covid Regalia
Remember Covid-19? Seems like long ago in a world that time forgot. Well, you get to revisit the whole sketchy business on Wednesday, July, 29, when Dr. Anthony Fauci is called to testify about it to the...
Struggle Session
The polycrisis of 2026 whirls like a demon-infested storm overcoming this human project of ours like a medieval panorama of the world’s end. Everything is fraught, tilting toward hazard, menace, ruin. Even under a summer sun, the mind sees...
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Author of "The Long Emergency" and the "World Made by Hand" series of novels. Blogger at "Clusterfuck Nation" every Monday and Friday. Podcaster. Archived content from my old website will be migrated here.
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