In the Days of Warm Prosperity By David Glenn Cox In the days of warm prosperity, it is rather a simple matter to accept as gospel all that you are told. After all, comfort and pockets filled with cash can do much to numb the senses narrowing the vision from our eyes. In those days, [...]

Craigslist – Explained By David Glenn Cox   I found this on Craigslist the other day, posted in the writing jobs section. I was struck by what it saying superficially versus what is was actually trying to say. My own comments are in the block quotes         washington, DC craigslist > district of columbia [...]

Carroll Shelby 1923 – 2012 By David Glenn Cox This country isn’t going to be as cool as it used to be, Carroll Shelby has passed away from us. Carroll was what it was like to be an American back in those halcyon days of the mid-twentieth century. He was a doer, a tinkerer, part [...]

Walking By David Glenn Cox I asked myself the other day, just what would I do for a job. That little demon appeared on my shoulder answering, “Why I’d star in a porn film, if my credentials would stand up.” I know, everyone is talking about the President’s comment supporting Gay marriage. The nominal left [...]

Hollowed Out By David Glenn Cox I’ve gotten into the habit each month of reading the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner’s statement, on the employment situation. This month’s report was as somber as a suicide note, after reading it all I could say was, “wow.” The report displays an economy flat on its back, prostrate [...]

Hollowed Out By David Glenn Cox   I’ve gotten into the habit each month of reading the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner’s statement, on the employment situation. This month’s report was as somber as a suicide note, after reading it all I could say was, “wow.” The report displays an economy flat on its back, [...]

May Day By David Glenn Cox   I had begun another piece about May Day and I abandoned it. It was filled with interesting quotes about May Day. May Day began as a struggle for the eight hour day. It grew and grew until it was world wide event. It was smeared as being leftist [...]

By David Glenn Cox I heard this news story the other day, “The worst housing downturn in seven decades,” okay, lets be honest about something here. They are referencing the “Great Depression” of the 1930’s when the American population was only a 150 million people. So just by the weight and the sheer volume of the [...]

How This Democracy Of Ours Works By David Glenn Cox It is always comforting to read American history. North Americans are always portrayed as the good guys in these narratives. We have this great national model for government and all with grand and dignified institutions. A history filled with giants and legends, slave holders, power [...]

War Correspondent By David Glenn Cox There is a war going on our there, a war without and the war within, a war for the soul of America. For three years now, I have lived on its societies lowest wrung. I pay the tax rate of “zero” percent, which so many Republicans dream of paying. [...]

Battered Children By David Glenn Cox Loneliness is a crowded solitude, darkness a cold blanket. Tomorrows are but yesterdays revisited. Life in neutral pastel suns fear losing the moon. The coins in my pocket warn me of their own loneliness, jingling in the pockets of fear. Don’t need no gasoline pumps or mega bars, nothing [...]

We Who Are Dead By David Glenn Cox It is Easter weekend, a metaphor for the rebirth of new life arising from death. It is a good time to reflect upon our lives and upon how we live. It is also the six month anniversary for the Occupy movement. I saw this article posted by [...]

Text Book Racism By David Glenn Cox Sometimes you must let these ideas incubate inside of you; these are ideas which have been with me most all of my life. They were ideas just percolating under the surface, just under the skin, so to speak. I was born towards the end of the 1950’s and [...]

Perception Management By David Glenn Cox There is no top to this and no bottom, there are no sides to this and no way to contain it. It can only be held in place temporarily, only with makeshift propaganda and truckloads of hubris. This involves us all, every last mother loving son or daughter of [...]

Once upon a time in a far away land of make believe: Isn’t that how all good fairy tales should begin? This particular fairy tale is about an American President seeking reelection to a second term. His first term was built upon the ethereal “Hope and Change”, but this American President has dashed the hopes [...]

Oh the Horror By David Glenn Cox I read Greg Smith’s earth shaking New York Time’s Op Ed recently, “Why I am Leaving Goldman Sachs” and I must say that I for one am shocked! Mr. Smith must have been either home schooled or led an otherwise sheltered life. When I was a young boy [...]