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,...
by Stephen Wing | May 26, 2026 | Politics
The ruthless cruelty of ICE is not incidental. Cruelty is the point. The lies of Trump and his accomplices are not random. Lying is the point. The corruption of Trump and his cronies is not a fluke. Corruption is the point. The chaotic blitz of Executive Orders is not...
by Stephen Wing | May 1, 2026 | Blog, Nature, Poetry
A visitor arriving on Earth from any other planet would be immediately struck by the sheer beauty and abundance of this place we natives take for granted. Pure air to breathe. Sweet water to drink – or dive right into. A perfect temperature range to sustain life....
