Issue 72: 04 October 2018

/Issue 72: 04 October 2018

Feeding the Fire of Winter Solstice

By | 2018-10-03T15:00:58-07:00 October 4th, 2018|Categories: Issue 72: 04 October 2018|Tags: , , |

By Cate Gable One stick one stick one match one fist of newsprint and the future is set into flames. Passion and idiocy are alight in the trees, the possums are playing dead, civil traditions melt. Our bones are reversing themselves one flake at a time, and the temple of our beloveds has long been desecrated [...]

Heads on the Chopping Block

By | 2018-10-06T13:45:27-07:00 October 4th, 2018|Categories: Issue 72: 04 October 2018|Tags: , , , , |

By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, Lindsey Graham and all other D.C. misogynists: Beware. You think Medusa was a monster? Politics hath no fury like a sexual assault survivor scorned mocked, belittled, lied about, ignored. Our rage is beautiful and terrifying. Our votes will turn you not to stone but to [...]

Breitmark News

By | 2018-10-03T14:25:59-07:00 October 4th, 2018|Categories: Issue 72: 04 October 2018|Tags: , |

By Mark Ozeroff   Breitmark News 1/24/17 President Trump has officially declared the day of his inauguration a national holiday, filing the paperwork on Monday. The proclamation read: “Now, therefore, I, Donald J. Trump, president of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of [...]

If I Could Write a Political Poem, It Would Say

By | 2018-10-03T15:12:29-07:00 October 4th, 2018|Categories: Issue 72: 04 October 2018|Tags: , |

By J. David Cummings   Are we fast becoming Nazi Germany? Tune in, not tomorrow, but later today. Let me confess to you my naïveté: I thought the good among us were many. Now I fear we stumble, prayer-like, as if to our last breath: O, Dark Angel, afflict him who is the Anti-Savior. Everyone can [...]