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Insomnia is a kind monster. It comes with the rustle of blankets, the sudden and single snore of my lover, the restlessness of imagining. It’s soft, sleeplessness. Half awake, I think of a poem, a word game, a need to do something I forgot. Then, I’m awake. Instead of laying…

There are some days I just don’t want to come home. Being scolded, chided, ripped, and criticized just are not my ideas of a good time. But with wife and kids, it’s going to happen. And though I do my best to keep out of everyone’s way, to do what…

Ah, Kansas City. Our money-intensive media feeds bad information, rank opinion, and outright falsehood into the mainstream. Lack of accountability has made the Kansas City media—alternative news print, blogosphere, or any other new media—a really rotten place to inform ourselves about anything. The link between “media” and free press in…

Sarah Palin’s drawing Hitler moustaches on the Virgin Mary. And this, from a woman who can shoot moose from her vagina. Please allow the following capitalist to destroy you.

I admit to my potty mouth. Growing up where I did, going to Catholic schools, and being a drunk for most of my first 30 years…well, it affected me. I could say that these things gave me a dirty mind, a love of danger, and a knack for iconoclasm. But…