Autumn Analog
By Mark Szakonyi
This compilation isn’t analog, but it is about autumn. The only season that matters. Spring can be all what the poets write, but it also can be quite annoying. We’re doing it again. The whole life thing is happening again. You know how this ends. The ground itself feels the urges of growth and is exhausted from the predictability, John Updike wrote. Summer makes the mind a bit fuzzier, and that’s not necessarily a negative, but it surely isn’t a merit. Yes, autumn is dependent on winter, but it is still more than its successor. It is the twilight that separates both the intensities of summer and winter, and not full of regular spawning like spring. It is the most gloriously sensible time of the year. In autumn, everything is sharper, yet warmer. It’s analog in a way.
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Posted by The Better Blog on 10/09 at 10:06 PM
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The Case Against Saving the Earth
By Mark Szakonyi
Brothers and sisters, I see a reckoning coming. It should be our reckoning, but the Green Insurgence threatens our day. They skimmed the seas saving whales in the 80s, and freed rats and other vermin from cages in the 90s. But in short time they infiltrated the system, so that now Fortune 500 CEOs boast of sustainability and presidential hopefuls unveil plans to fuel the infrastructure with hope and resolve. Even the proles talk of preserving by showering less and not keeping all their TVs on all day. They know not what they endanger.
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Posted by The Better Blog on 09/10 at 08:50 PM
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