by Stephen Wing | Nov 1, 2026 | Blog, Politics
Don’t call me a Democrat!! Sure, I vote Democratic and canvass for Democratic candidates, but that is entirely coincidental. The Democratic Party, Inc., has sold its soul to Satan too many times. Don’t tell Jon Ossoff, but I am shamelessly using the Democrats to...
by Stephen Wing | Oct 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
I’ve been losing my elders. Not just those of my parents’ age, who are mostly gone now, but some older friends of my youth who led the way into a strange, unprecedented time when we were “finally,” as Neil Young sang it, “on our...
by Stephen Wing | Aug 31, 2026 | Blog, Peace & War, Politics
So the mushroom-shaped shadow of nuclear Armageddon looms higher than ever – and next we’ll face AI-enhanced robot troopers under authoritarian command? Can we still call this “civilization”? The two-thousand-year-old Haudenosaunee Confederacy of...
by Stephen Wing | Aug 1, 2026 | Blog, Politics
Hitchhiking into Chicago through a snowstorm years ago, I found the interstate shut down and traffic backed up as far as Gary, Indiana, with not a snowplow in sight. The driver I was riding with was headed into Gary, so I took a detour, aiming to catch the South Shore...
by Stephen Wing | Jun 29, 2026 | Blog, Uncategorized
Call me lazy, but the sheer number of possible greetings-in-passing, conversational gambits, and substitutes for “hello” finally wore me down. Like an old-fashioned answering machine with no mazelike menu of options, I narrowed them all down to a simple,...