the faces at the bar just want the news

music is playing

some old sentimental country tune

“she left him” “he left her” whatever the hell it was

3am stumbling from his seat to the bathroom

Jack is counting his change

that’s all he’s got left

after The Company raped his land

giant superweeds are all Jack’s got left

he had to buy new seeds every year from Monsanto

(and when The Man found Jack had accidentally used Roundup Ready seeds…

“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.’ H.L. Mencken.

Of all the flaws of the human mind, the number one must be the overwhelming desire to find simple, easy to understand answers – to everything. I think this is why my favourite film of all time is Twelve Angry Men. It was a stage play first.

A black youth is accused of killing his father. The evidence that is…

Put these two public-health agency statements up against each other:

DON’T GIVE THIS VACCINE TO PEOPLE WHOSE IMMUNE SYSTEMS ARE WEAK, BECAUSE DIRE CONSEQUENCES WOULD FOLLOW.

WE GAVE THIS VACCINE TO 100 MILLION PEOPLE, MILLIONS OF WHOM HAD WEAK IMMUNE SYSTEMS, AND IT WAS A GLORIOUS SUCCESS, ONE OF THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF MODERN MEDICINE.

Doesn’t add up, does it? Across a population of 100 million people, widespread harm and death would have…