It’s Alright Ma…
The rattling had ceased and without questioning it Lulu and Sherm took the opportunity to split the bottle between two large plastic cups. They each downed their glasses in one. Out of the corner of her eye Lulu glanced at the clock. The big hand was on the six and the little hand was above the nine and Lulu involuntarily gagged on the last bit of wine and wanted to cry. But the banging had started up again.
By Nina-Marie Gardner.
Does Truth Matter?
To be a bit brutal for a moment, I have to say that people who think that really haven’t been paying attention. The left is teeming with people who are fiercely opposed to epistemic relativism and fluffy ‘all knowledges are equally valid’-ism — people who are well aware that that kind of thing is just as useful to religious bigots and warmongers as it is to leftists. It was a member of the Bush admin who referred pityingly to critics as the reality-based community, after all.
David Thompson interviews Why Truth Matters author Ophelia Benson for 3:AM.
The Missing Links
Robert Anton Wilson “defies Medical Experts and leaves his body @ 4:50 AM on binary date 01/11″. More on STML . A memorial is planned for 18th February. * As Art of Fiction notes, 2007 could be the year of The Fall: Reformation Post TLC, the new album due out February 12, Renegade: The Gospel […]
3:AM Top 5: Tony O’Neill
Tony O’Neill is the author of Digging The Vein (Contemporary Press / Wrecking Ball Press), Seizure Wet Dreams: Short Stories and Poems (Social Disease), and the upcoming poetry collection Songs From The Shooting Gallery (Burning Shore Press). He is a founding member of the Brutalists. He once had a drink thrown in his face by […]