“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.” — Thomas Pynchon Over the last few years the online group known as QAnon has grown substantially. The online message board where the leader, Q, posts cryptic messages appears to be something right…

“There can’t be more of them than us. There can’t be more.” - Jason Isbell A few years ago I was walking to get my luggage at the George Bush International Airport. Ahead of me a man stopped and appeared to say something to a sweaty man in a suit…

“When the air that we breathe becomes air that we choke.” — Rise Against At times I traveled so much that I’d wake up in the hotel and not know where I was. Dayton. San Antonio. Sumter. Florence. New Orleans. Miami. Butler. The alarm on my iPhone blares the standard…

“It’s such a magical mysteria.” — Def Leppard Sturgill Simpson has a new independently released album. This time it isn’t hard rock like Sound & Fury. There is no anime, or at least none that I’m aware of. The album is another unique release that is like all previous albums…

“Corrupted patriotism sold as nationalism. Your theocratic beliefs are a moral weapon.” — Anti-Flag The radical ideologies of the militia has been brewing for decades. After the events on September 11th, 2001 these groups was no longer under a microscope. The government had bigger terrorist groups to investigate and fight…

The downhill sprint of NASCAR “I think we ought to make it a Figure Eight. I mean, if we could make it a Figure Eight, it would be perfect.” — Tony Stewart The first and only Nascar race I’ve attended was the Goodies Headache Powder 500 at Martinsville VA. This…

“I pushed the button and elected him to office.” — Trent Reznor As filling out my absentee ballot this past Sunday night, I thought what a dispiriting mix of choices. Donald J. Trump, Joesph Biden, a couple of folks I’ve never heard of, and Kayne West. If one could go…

“High noon we opened the wooden church doors, then we opened fire and gave em’ what they came for .”— B. Silas We move forward in what some are calling a Constitutional crisis, where President Trump is saying he will refuse to accept the election results if he loses on…