Homage to Icarus

I’ve just ordered a Kindle and fin­ished a review of (warn­ing: spoil­ers, big-assed swastika on the front cover) They Thought They Were Free, a book about ordi­nary peo­ple in Germany who became Nazis that’s been on my list for a long while after it made the rounds on some of the lefty blogs I read.
As my […]

[I’ll prob­a­bly end up deliv­er­ing this onstage either tomor­row or next week.]
It’s 9:28 PM
Commuter train of the damned
Slaving away for machines
Which do our think­ing for us
Which is what this is all about…
Evolution…
It’s 9:32 PM
Commuter train of the damned
Soon to be board­ing
A motly crew of the dam­aged
Is crowd­ing me in the wait­ing room
What if I stay perfectly […]

In an ear­lier post, I had noted that I would write some more on a phở­to­graph I had posted to pro­vide a graphic illus­tra­tion of the kinds of regimes that decided on tri­als when it was in the best inter­est of the state, rather than, for exam­ple, the inter­ests of justice.

When you look at the […]

Last Wednesday night, I was call­ing friends to try and do a lit­tle street the­ater down­town Chicago, in the hopes of pro­vid­ing a par­tic­u­larly gritty infomer­cial and gen­er­at­ing pres­sure on the Senate to not pass S.3930 (aka the “Just Confess to Something Act of 2006″). It appears I wasn’t the only one with the same […]

Blackwater USA is cur­rently attempt­ing to mar­ket a cloth­ing line.
Sometimes I think I’m the only one who has ever actu­ally seen Head Office all the way through. Allow me some rem­i­nisc­ing… [insert wavy flash­back lines here]

Jane Caldwell:
Don’t fall for it, Jack.

Jack Issel:
Fall for what?

Jane Caldwell:
For the lie we keep telling our­selves. We do the dirty stuff to get […]