Stonekettle Station

I have to tell you, Senator Obama is a decent person and a person you don’t have to be scared of as president of the United States. Quick...

“Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick it in someone's back.”     ― Desmond Tutu   What’s that old sa...

This essay first appeared on Stonekettle Station on July 20, 2009, the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. Nothing has changed sinc...

"...I couldn't find anything about the Israel-Palestine conflict on your wall. Was it because you didn't get the news about wh...

As I mentioned in previous posts, recent events have caused me to take a long hard look at what I do here.  Circumstances and thieving basta...

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand ...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rig...

I wrote an essay. It was called Absolutely Nothing , an answer to Edwin Star’s famous question: War, what is it good for? That essay has b...