Stonekettle Station

Halloween as a holiday has always perplexed me. Not the actual festivities of Halloween, I’m not confused by that. Goblins and witches, gh...

  This morning, deep in the rank catacombs beneath a heavily fortified New York mansion, lolling in an oversized gold-plated hot tub taken ...

Oh you set your course for the furthest shores And you never once looked back And the flag you flew was a pirate cross On a field of velvet...

Some of you asked about my hate mail. Specifically the stuff in response to the previous post. That post, Deadlock , hit big. It’s still ...

" L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés et désirs "     - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Commonly translated as: The road to Hel...

"A second flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair. But no...

  Sinclair Lewis famously said, “when fascism comes to America, it’ll be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross.” It’ll be wrapped in the f...