Author: DeViney, Jack

Six Degrees of Knowin’ Nothin’: [Untitled]

And on the 8th day, God made bears. Lots and lots of bears.

Does this era need introduction? Or, rather, may a suitable introduction be written? I report, you deride.

1: In any rational era, the sudden appearance..................   read more

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Fabriqué en Babylon: Meanwhile "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."

With the majority of public discourse non-existent and what discussion does occur usually ending..................   read more

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Six Degrees of Knowin’ Nothin’: How The Donald Gets Re-Elected (BIGLY) How 6 = 270 = 4

You don’t like me? I don’t like you either, so it’s even-steven.

Forget what I want. What I want is irrelevant. What is at hand is what matters: it’s a debut, six points of varying degrees of severity that may or may..................   read more

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Fabriqué en Babylon: Mueller’s Brass Tacks Vol. 2

You can’t make this [expletive deleted] up. Nobody’d believe it, that I can tell you. Many people tell me. BELIEVE ME! SAD!

Beyond the distinct possibility being the more innocuous explanation previously stated by the Special Counsel himself, the assertion that McGhan is beyond reproach, that he had “no motive to lie or..................   read more

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Fabriqué en Babylon: Mueller’s Brass Tacks Vol. 1

“SAD!”

Quite a few million taxpayer dollars, countless hurt feelings and one slightly disgruntled POTUS later, I had my chance at last to consume the report of The Special Counsel, one Robert S. Mueller III...................   read more

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Black History Month: Being About It

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Richard Milhous Nixon

Talking about what might’ve been and thinking about what used to be only goes so far. Certainly not one opposed to reminiscing, I was wracked with grief over the comments
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The Living and The Dead: Dystopia as Pastime [or: “The Road to Megiddo”]

Norman Reedus as fan favorite Daryl Dixon from “The Walking Dead”

If you’re awake and at all oriented to the world at large, you needn’t go far from the comforts of your mobile phone, laptop or television-hub to
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Fabriquè en Babylon: Here There Be Monsters “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

Exiled on Main Street, we are

Someday, we will look back knowing that Donald Trump gave birth to the 21st century. In a time where life is cheap and peace a punchline from the footnotes
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EDITORIAL: Don’t Eat The Rich

This becomes irresponsibility, this relentless notion of “progressives” that life can be perfectly equitable and fair if only the central (Federal)
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30 April, 2017: A Creed For All Seasons

It’s not often in this foul year of our Lord, two-thousand seventeen, that any verbose armchair scribe lacks for subject matter worthy of dissecting. Yet with
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The Modern State