Johnny Dick, Screed from the Road #3
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Essays, commentary, political opinion and other non-fictional prose.

SCREED FROM THE ROAD # 3:

THE RANGER TAKES AN UNHOLY TURN …FUCK YOU BILLINGS & MAY TOP-TECH AUTO BURN DOWN INTO THE INBRED SOIL FROM WHICH IT SPROUTED.
A week in an off-the-map ancient ski town, Rossland, B.C., which lies just above the scrawny neck of Idaho, was a great escape from the over-trodden billion dollar-mountains we’d been riding the past [...]

#8: SCREED FROM LOS OSOS…THE SENTIMENTALITY OF A STRANDED SEAL…R.I.P. PEPÉ

It was a few days after Las Vegas so our frayed nerves were still raw as we tried to get back to ‘normal’ while we were enjoying the first stint of laid-back camping on the California Coast. Los Osos, the name of a quaint water-edge town what meant the bears, but of course the last [...]

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SCREED FROM THE (END OF THE) ROAD #15

PORTLAND, OR…PLANTING ROOTS IN A MOSSY NEW STOMPING GROUND
By now most of you, whoever you are, must be thinking that I’m dead, burnt to a crisp in a car crash on a deserted highway or at least a quadriplegic from a cliff diving accident or something, but no, I’m at least still half alive in [...]

American Guns Protect US

June 26, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a sweeping ban on handguns in the nation’s capital violated the Second Amendment right to bear arms. Writing for the 5-4 majority, Justice Antonin Scalia noted that the handgun is Americans’ preferred weapon of self-defense in part because “it can be pointed at a burglar with [...]

PLATFORM OF MY PITH

(A MISPLACED FLASHBACK FROM WINTRY UGLINESS IN MILWAUKEE)
“I am guilty, Lord, but I am also a lover - and I am one of your best people, as you know; and yea tho I have walked in many strange shadows and acted crazy from time to time and even drooled on many High Priests, I have [...]