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Has Fahrenheit 451 Come To America To Stay?
By Joshua Calkins Treworgy (author of Motor City Shambler--Bob the Zombie Book 1) Has Fahrenheit 451—Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel about book burnings--come to America to stay? Is America being hobbled by censorship? Is that censorship coming from both sides of...
Fentanyl Kills
On the morning of August 10th, in Aurora, Colorado, Margarita Flores Velasquez opened the door to her bathroom and discovered her 13 year old grandson, Jose, bent over with his head in the sink. She recalls, “I said 'Jose, Jose,'… I tried moving him. He was limp,...
Mar a Lago Civil War
The biggest danger of the Mar a Lago FBI intrusion is civil war. Here are the details. At roughly ten in the morning of Monday August 8th, a team of FBI agents entered the Trump mansion at Mar A Lago, went to a padlocked room in the basement, and removed roughly...
Get Curious, Oh Artist!
An essay by Joshua T. Calkins-Treworgy Author of “A Hunter and His Prey” One of my favorite quotes of all time comes from author and political hopeful Marianne Williamson: “I think the happiest people are the ones who follow ‘I don’t know’ with ‘Let’s...
Was the Texas School Shooter Delusional?
Attention is the oxygen of the human soul. A few of us who cannot gain attention by doing good will seek it by doing evil. At 11:30 am on Tuesday, May 24th, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, who did not have a driver’s license, crashed his grandparents’ four-door silver...
The Cushioned Killer – Fentanyl
On Wednesday May 11th, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that deaths from drug overdoses had reached an all-time high, almost 108,000 in the past twelve months. That’s massive. It’s the equivalent of all the annual deaths from auto...
Will the New COVID Kill You?
A new Kaiser Family Foundation poll shows that half of us Americans think the days of COVID waves are over. Only a third of us think we face a new wave of infections. Which group is right? Is COVID over? Or are we in a new wave? You decide. NBC news announced...
Marketing, the Fine Art of Making People Buy Shit They Don’t Need
An essay by Joshua T. Calkins-Treworgy Author of “Motor City Shambler” When was the last time you treated yourself to something special? After making your purchase, did you feel a sense of gratification only? Or was there a nagging little voice coming from the...
Criminals on the Supreme Court
A crime is taking place before our very eyes. Three Supreme Court justices have committed perjury. All three tried to give the impression in their Senate confirmation hearings that if elevated to the highest bench in the land, they would not overturn Roe v. Wade. ...
How to End-Run Russian Gas
Russia has just cut off natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria, a potential death blow to these nations’ economies. And Russia could easily do the same to Germany, the engine of the economy of Europe. Meanwhile, the IPCC has issued a report warning that we are...