“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have.” — Abraham Lincoln

There are three ways to approach other people: with kindness in your heart, with cruelty on your nerves, or with plain old indifference. The most popular of the three is the latter, but there’s not much story in indifference. Like the great Heartiste says, the opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. You just […]

The title of this piece refers to a comment by a regular commentator to Dark Sport, John Malone, that Stephen King has lost his mojo. To which I replied, He lost it a long time ago. Stephen King is an interesting case. Here we see a man who cozies up to a political faction (the […]

To be immortal. Some wouldn’t know what to do with their time. Others would despair at having to be stuck on the mortal plane that long. But a significant number would love it, and would sign on board in a second if the opportunity presented itself. Since ancient days, tales of immortality have been with […]

The world is hungering for a mega rock star to take his anointed place in the firmament of stars. For too long now, we’ve had small singers, minor musicians. Not since the 1950s and 1960s with stars such as the Beatles and Elvis has there been someone who was truly big. Today’s star is Taylor […]

The U.S. is the global hegemon power — it alone has the power to lay down the law to a multinational coalition of “the willing” who serve its absolute vision. This overwhelming authority has been called more than a superpower; it is a hyperpower, in the eyes of the French. The Chinese are nowhere near […]

Rain-slicked windows looked out over the courtyard far below. The reflection of the Necromancer, an image of seriousness overlaid with quickly dribbling raindrops, had paused in motion for the moment. Usually, the Necromancer was a being in full whirlwind mode, rushing from place to place despite his 300 years of age. The problem with being […]

Donald Trump has an appealing personality, and a winning brusqueness to himself. He can be funny. He is not an unintelligent man. Yet he errs when he brings the tools of the showman/businessman to the Kissingerian heights of international discourse. Why so? Because statecraft isn’t a huckster’s paradise where you’re trying to “bluff” your way […]

Back in the 1970s, when hippies were young and San Francisco was the epicenter of a worldwide cultural seismic upheaval, a place in Asia existed called Kampuchea — the revised name for Cambodia, given to it by its new Communist masters. As with the French Revolution revolutionaries, the new revolutionaries of Southeast Asia liked names […]