COCKTAILS AND FALLOUT We huddled in our Midwest motel room watching the dangerous cloud of cesium-137 ― a radioisotope known to cause cancer ― as it engulfed the city of Omaha. I mixed myself another discount

S.O.S. So, we have this free spaceship — known as Earth — that was pre-assembled when we got here. Strangely enough, we humans are hellbent on obliterating it. Fuckin' insanity, when you comprehend we

THE BIG SNOW GLOBE "We sailed away We walked two thousand miles And then we slipped away We looked so hard But couldn’t seem to find just what The world was for Now we know Just what the journey’s

TESTING ONE, TWO, THREE "There isn’t anybody in the United States who isn’t a downwinder, * either. When we followed the clouds, we went all over the United States from east to west and covering a

AUSTRALIA: POSITIVELY GLOWING "Our so-called leaders speak With words they try to jail ya' They subjugate the meek But it's the rhetoric of failure We are spirits in the material world" ― The

PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE "Turn off your television sets. […] Turn them off and leave them off! Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I'm speaking to you now! Turn them off!" ― Howard

ADHD FOR DOGS "The world is your oyster." ― An oyster fisherman ADHD for dogs… If you do anything but denounce such a stupid concept, you should behead yourself, and bequeath your cranium to

9/11 "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." ― President George W. Bush * President

THE BLUE PILL "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." ― Jiddu Krishnamurti * Jiddu Krishnamurti: Humanity on Earth — being offspring of the cosmos — is

GOVERNMENT "Politicians hide themselves away They only started the war Why should they go out to fight? They leave that all to the poor Time will tell on their power minds Making war just for fun

EMPTY "Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream" ― children's nursery rhyme * Bill Hicks: "So often times it happens That we

ONE NIGHT IN THE LIFE OF D.B. COOPER You stand inside the opened aft stairs of a Boeing 727. The plane beneath your feet races at 200 miles per hour. You stare into a vacuous night sky that defines pitch

HEROIN: THE OTHER WONDER DRUG The Bayer Company — the same corporation that produces Bayer aspirin — invented, and sold, heroin. Big Pharma, baby! Puttin' it all on the line for the common man! It was

HANDJOBS AND SANDPAPER "What else is troubling me? Mickey Mouse’s birthday being announced on the television news as if it’s an actual event. I don’t give a shit! If I cared about Mickey Mouse’s birthday,

DRANO FOR BREAKFAST "What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine? What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine? I learned our government must be strong It’s always right