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WHY MORMON MEN CAN’T BE TRUSTED — A ex-Mormon woman looks back at the Church. PLUS It’s fifty years since the Port Huron statement. Alexander Cockburn on the origins of SDS and one of the crucial documents of the 1960s. PLUS Two ounces of oil + a fishing boat + Homeland Security Incident #995038 = the onward march of totalitarianism in America. Read Captain Knutson’s story.
Starlight
to live in the jungle of the willfully
vicious. is. to be scraped every morning
by the knives of the failed
lives which are not
the lives of the poor or the lives of the
desperate. or. the lives of the children in
flux. depending. swung on their cheap
balloons. hanging.
on and falling. dying. they.
aren’t the failures. the failures
are bloody with the blood
of others. and sodden.
George W. Bush. the Bushes.
clutching at God as if at money.
empty. in their houses. failing.
at everything. wondering.
what went wrong.
LARRY KEARNEY can be reached at: defoe43@comcast.net