Category Archives: American History

TrusTED as Antichrist…or does it Anti-Matter

Posted on April 10, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers detail…SIGNORELLI, Luca; Sermon and Deeds of the Antichrist, Fresco Chapel of San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto 1499-1502 And in the midst of all the chaos we see the Antichrist, pausing in the middle of a sermon to hear what … Continue reading →

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Michael Ware’s Only the Dead knows that the end of War documentaries are not snuff films

Posted on April 2, 2016 by ann li-summers

        By ann summers No one wants to see the explicit images of death and the dying, the actual rather than the Michael Bay cinematic explosions, and yet like the spectacular trainwreck of the 2016 elections season, … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: ILLUMINATOR

Posted on March 18, 2016 by wordcloud9

by Nona Blyth Cloud There are writers who can “deliver the goods” but can’t explain how they create them. There are writers who can “talk a good game,” but whose actual work disappoints. But the writers who can do both … Continue reading →

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‘Don’t Do Stupid Sh*t’ is not the Obama Doctrine because there is one

Posted on March 14, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   An important date in my lifetime was not an August 30 when I decided to blog regularly, but the red line moment for the Obama decision not to bomb the shit out of Syria over the use … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: MIGRANT

Posted on March 4, 2016 by wordcloud9

by Nona Blyth Cloud “Poetry is a call to action and it also is action. Sometimes we say, “This tragedy, it happened far away. I don’t know what to do. I’m concerned but I’m just dangling in space.” A poem can lead … Continue reading →

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U.S. Supreme Court: The Shape of One’s Soul and the Color of One’s Conscience

Posted on February 17, 2016 by wordcloud9

by Nona Blyth Cloud (Column originally published at Morning Open Thread on Daily Kos) Justice Antonin Scalia (front row, second from left) is dead. I assume that the President will do his job and nominate a new Justice. Then the great … Continue reading →

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The beginning of Turner Diaries II(I) or the end of the Bundy insurgency

Posted on January 27, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers “Avenge me…” the Red Dawn protagonists’ father cries out, and with his passing, will LaVoy Finicum’s legacy be a 2015 novel that could become The Turner Diaries for a new generation of RWNJ.  Finicum’s 241-page apocalyptic cowboy thriller … Continue reading →

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Bundystani Barbarism – Going Medieval, new materialism & land jumping piracy

Posted on January 26, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The prototypical crypto-fascists terrorizing Eastern Oregon in the USA represent largely symbolic, yet armed, direct actions performed with the occupation of federal land and structures in order to promote issues of anti-governmental resistance on the behalf of land-owning individuals and their … Continue reading →

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After week III, another two months of Bundystani insurgency, now with moronic extra-Constitutionality

Posted on January 24, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Evoking New York language values, Slate magazine has now labeled the East Oregon Bundystani as Jamokes trying to enforce Shania(sic) Law in an incursion by outsiders. We may not understand public land laws, but we understand how to … Continue reading →

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Bundystan now riddled with bulletpoints as Fluffy Unicornists seek Freedom Vanilla creamer

Posted on January 16, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers TarpBoy LaVoy, the Fluffy Unicorn whisperer of Eastern Oregon, like most of his band of Unicornists has been coming out from his tarp in anticipation of Groundhog Day, one of the few days in Pennsylvania where fewer … Continue reading →

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