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Back from the Dead
I got sixteen days Fifteen of those are nights Can't sleep when the bed sheet fights Its way back to your side -Whiskeytown Well, it's...

Mike Dickey
May 15, 20253 min read


Saving Your Soul
"Combien de temps" -REM Exhausted this morning after the realization yesterday of another mis-calendared deadline by the former...

Mike Dickey
May 2, 20253 min read
Anointing a King, Etc.
"Fascism is capitalism in decay." - Vladimir Lenin So much to recount, with so little time these days. Flying around southeast Oklahoma...

Mike Dickey
Apr 30, 20252 min read


History
Ventura Highway in the sunshine Where the days are longer The nights are stronger than moonshine You're gonna go, I know 'Cause the free...

Mike Dickey
Apr 25, 20253 min read


Authoritarianism in America, Part Infinity
"The eye never blinks, it pierces shadow and stone. Concealed within his fortress, the lord of Mordor sees all." -JRR Tolkien So this...

Mike Dickey
Apr 23, 20251 min read


Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bill
Four minutes to my first call, after spending the morning doing tax homework. But the good news for any reader is that my haste forces me...

Mike Dickey
Apr 22, 20251 min read


Work
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies . - Rudyard Kipling 9:06 on Monday morning. Two calls already,...

Mike Dickey
Apr 21, 20251 min read


So Long, Bill
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple...

Mike Dickey
Apr 18, 20252 min read


Forced to Live in the Present
And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I...

Mike Dickey
Apr 17, 20253 min read


Maybe It's Time
When they kick at your front door How you gonna come? With your hands on your head Or on the trigger of your gun When the law break in...

Mike Dickey
Apr 15, 20254 min read


Ten Pounds of Excrement in a Five Pound Bag
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." - Socrates A brief one this morning because, well, I'm busy. I have a hearing in a little bit,...

Mike Dickey
Apr 14, 20253 min read


Feline Fillibuster
"A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music." - Carl Jung Hey there. It's been a few weeks. Anything happen while I was away?...

Mike Dickey
Apr 10, 20253 min read


Let's Hit Pause
"Let's put our heads together And start a new country up Our father's father's father tried Erased the parts he didn't like Let's try to...

Mike Dickey
Feb 20, 20254 min read


A Collection of Losses
"We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this...

Mike Dickey
Feb 19, 20253 min read


Not Your Buddy
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools...

Mike Dickey
Feb 13, 20252 min read


Schadenfreude and Super Bowl
"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election." - Otto von Bismarck Starting the day with a grim smile,...

Mike Dickey
Feb 12, 20253 min read


Autogolpe
"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline...

Mike Dickey
Feb 11, 20253 min read


The End of a Week
"If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday." — Noel Coward Sitting here looking at my poor dictaphone on life...

Mike Dickey
Feb 7, 20252 min read


Horseshoe Republic
"Let's put our heads together and start a new country up Our father's father's father tried, erased the parts he didn't like Let's try to...

Mike Dickey
Feb 6, 20253 min read


Oblivion
A fairly uninspiring view from the bridge on the USS 407. Trial begins for me at the Bay County Courthouse in a little over an hour. I've...

Mike Dickey
Feb 5, 20251 min read
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