amfortas the hippie

“I must find Ecstasy in this Insanity Freedom from their Slavery The Truth in their Lies Life in their Death Beauty in their Homicid...

There's a disturbance in the Force. Political turmoil, down here in the weeds. On both sides of the aisle. It's enough of an a...

It's been three years, today, since I returned from the hospital in North Austin with my new hip. (http://amfortasthehippie.blogspot....

On Internal Exile ...and on finally (potentially) belonging in my own damned country... “You do not become a "dissident" just...

Turns out that government works just fine, so long as it's not run by Teabilly Corp-Loving Privatisation Zealots. This is entirel...

The DLC/Triangulating/Corporate Wing of the (formerly) Democratic Party are out in force...with Krugman as the latest....telling us that, ...

Billary didn't invent “Globalisation”.... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-l-kearns/bill-clintons-trade-legac_b_8945180.html ...

Boehlert has a good point: (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-boehlert/the-media-and-trumps-rall_b_8955056.html) FTA:”For anyone w...

Visions of Teabilly revolutionaries, with that vacant but angry visage, gnawing on a human index finger...fat dripping in their three day...

So this happened a defender of the federal bird sanctuary under his Freedom Tarp. (made in China, of course) The thing that gets me a...

...whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justificat...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/02/politics/barack-obama-2016-wish-list/ http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/01/03/444332/Iran-tells-banks-to...

Behold: I'm reminded of Athens, after Syracuse. We are a foolish people, seemingly intent on destroying ourselves...either by ac...

A frelling week of cold rain, and now the sun's out. But it's still cold...and I cannot get warm, it seems. Especially my feet. T...

The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right A fork in the road: either “Generational War”, (http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/11/19/i...

“if you abandon Genesis’ literal history of marriage and say marriage can be two men or two women or whatever you want, well why not aband...

Back into the Cave!!! http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-activists-argue-recriminalization-birth-control-birth-contro...

This, from David Barton: "Why is it that conservatives are convinced that they are in the minority?" Barton asked. "In rea...

Boo Hoo. “I don't wanna be “forced” to keep Arsenic out of the chicken I sell.” Boo Hoo “I don' Wanna share the planet with pe...

(at least that's how I've been pronouncing it...) Charles Koch is disappointed. (http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/c...

It began in earnest about an hour ago(9pm, CDT), in my Left Big Toe. As if it were in a vise. It quickly spread through the Gravel Ankle...

(or, Gowdy-Doody gets trapped in a broom closet) (I ain't gonna vote for her in the Primary, but this pic is priceless) Mr. Gowdy ...

Sinclair the Prophet I've been avoiding News for several weeks...which means that I have limited my news consumption(unpack that term...

My youngest son came home the other day and said he needed me to write a note giving him permission to read the Hobbit. I was taken aback...

So the Pope invades Washington DC...says a bunch of stuff that sounds a whole lot like Jesus...and Boner of Orange sees the light, throug...

So.... Fake Videos are Real. Obama is a Kenyan Socialist/Commie/Muslim/Fascist. Vaccines Cause Disease. Supply Side Economics was a ...

(just something that's been rattling around in my brain for some time) I've never cared for guns. Loud and dangerous, and often...