29 August 2013

$569,000

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By Bud Koenemund   $569,000. By government standards, it's not much; not when compared to our national budget. It amounts to less th...
27 June 2013

Routine

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  He washed away the excess shaving cream, rubbing his fingers together under the weak stream of hot water. His father had tried to teach hi...
25 February 2013

Satire and "The Line"

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  As a writer, I am always leery of passing too harsh a judgment on other writers; especially when it comes to attempts at satire. As George...
20 February 2013

Shakespeare the Critic

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Hmmm, great indeed! "So we beat on..." I thought this was about last night's wine-fest! Oh, my poor head! This du...
14 February 2013

The American Family Association is Unpatriotic and Ungrateful

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Arlington National Cemetery (photo from Army.mil) I rarely comment on the things I post on What Are You Really Afraid Of? (http://what...
06 December 2012

North Pole Announces Job Cuts

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Santa's workshop "underwater" as Kringle appears before Congress   By Bud Koenemund 6 December 2012   WASHINGTON, ...
04 November 2012

This is Not Politics; it is Human Rights (2012)

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First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I ...
16 October 2012

Those Who Cannot Remember the Past

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This is my entry in the 2012 Short Short Fiction Contest sponsored by Esquire magazine and the Aspen Writers' Foundation. The story ha...
06 October 2012

Antonin Scalia and the Right to Marry

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  Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, apparently believes that no American – gay or straight – has the r...
24 August 2012

Tortured

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For TK Inspired by Jack, Neal, and Allen We could see the darkness and were blind in the light. We stood, dumb, as a vomit of colors, and w...