America: White-Trash Nation

Honey Boo Boo

There are days when I think I might have been so much better off if I had never left the trailer park. Days when I am totally convinced that I am the only real human being on earth surrounded by aliens from a foreign land. Or maybe that’s the other way around, everybody else is human [...]

After the killing

Church Hill

I am off to Baton Rouge. I won’t return until Saturday. Pray for me, will you? I need prayer this week. My girlfriend here in town called me tonight. She’s worried about all this traveling I’ve been doing — Atlanta, Seattle, now Baton Rouge. A couple of trips to Spokane thrown in for good measure. [...]

The Joker

joker

His isolation. Their inability to distinguish reality from pretend. Those are two of the primary observations that continue to emerge from the devastation of the Colorado shooting. By all accounts James Holmes was a nice enough guy but no one really knew him. He kept to himself. He was smart but a loner. We are [...]