RANDOM JACK

(Note: Parts 1-8 below.) If you took the weight of the ocean that erupts in pain at the slightest breeze from across the world and threw it...

(Parts 1-7 below) The only human right you have in Iraq these days outside the idling engine of a military transport plane is just that, you...

(Note: Parts 1-6 below.) As we approached the scene of the ambush the humvee took fire. Families were gathered over the wreckage of what we...

(Note: Parts 1-5 below) Moving around in Iraq you can be reminded of the image of James Cagney's famous line, "Top of the world ma!...

(Parts 1-4 below) Driving through the wasteland that has become Iraq you pray you'll run into an arms dealer and you'll also pray he...

JR and I in Iraq - part 3 Dodge city, that's what the Marine's called the area we were in. One marine, so young he shaved once or a...

Jack Random and I in Iraq - part 1 Jack Random and I burst into Iraq like a widow at a train station all out of quarters for the condom mach...

(the mind of mansel) its a crisis of burden to spread quasi-political hellhounds of the dead pentagon militias hired away privately these de...

It was in a country as small as a country road stretches across an american county that lives were taken for no other reason than they could...

for Jack Random and here's to Boliva I've held your export in my hand my government uses it to fund the Taliban but it doesn't m...

x Claustrophobia sets in. She muscles out of the dirt. Can she really summon the determination to shed t...

According to historical lore, King John (circa 1215) was a little man, out of touch with the affairs of state and so recklessly ineffectual ...

(With respect to Neil Young’s “Cortez the Killer”) Well they came across the ocean With a dream of finding gold And they marched across the...

"It is no exaggeration to say that democratic society is founded on a kind of faith: on the conviction that each citizen is capable of,...

A recent Jazzman Chronicle described the state of American politics, on the eve of the midterm elections, under the heading: Profiles in Co...

We have to get out. We have to get out before the tide turns again, before Karl Rove gets his groove, before a Tonkin incident triggers a n...

Up Against the Wall The trouble with the neocons is: You never know when they’re playing. They started by flashing their trump cards. They...

Cough. Flagellation. Requiem. We have seen the process heaving. He can’t suffer it again, another cold alabaster mannequin ...

[jihad] it was a inflammatory thing very the pope read quoting a palaeologus Michael II emperor of byzant about the holy war proclaimed by t...

In the event you missed it, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann delivered the most eloquent, heart wrenching and profoundly truthful tribute to the ...