The Outlaw Steve Corbett ink splotch

Reporting the Gazan Ghost

June 23, 2024

Lean, unshaven and wearing a black helmet emblazoned on the front with the letters TV, the man who calls himself SAMIALUTIN on Facebook grins for the photographer. With a camera dangling from each shoulder and the word PRESS printed across the front of his blue flak jacket, he poses with Palestinian refugee children, his arms […]

Lock ’em Up!

June 15, 2024

Both of ’em. Imprison former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden’s son Hunter in a nice minimum security federal penitentiary complete with armed guards who hate government. God bless the Second Amendment. Trump? Five to ten years for committing 34 federal felonies a jury easily recognized as major crimes. A legal nuisance suit settlement? […]

Reject “Pro-Death” Senator Bob Casey

June 8, 2024

Scranton once beckoned as a blessed and powerful haven for the so-called pro-life movement. In Irish Catholic hard coal country “pro-life” is a deceptive euphemism for cruel anti-abortion zealotry. My Hill Section neighbor and U.S. Sen. Bob Casey once helped lead that fanatical charge against abortion rights for women. Nobody was more dangerous to women’s […]

Maya Poems From Isla Mujeres

June 8, 2024

SOONER THAN LATER goodbye for now mighty refuge in the sea Ixchel left her mark on my soul a cosmic jaguar claw drawing a line in pure white sand we vow to protect the island of women Maya culture our precious planet helping Ixchel when we can spreading moonlight celestial power ancient magic spells even […]

Maya Poems From Isla Mujres

June 7, 2024

BECKONING conch shells whisper secret maya sounds from cliffs beside temple ruins sharing moon goddess Ixchel’s power in the Yucatán earth beyond our mysterious origin so deep within vast sapphire sky all the way to the Mexican moon and back one day we’ll return to this southern finger of Isla Mujeres beckoning wise spirits of […]

The Outlaw Steve Corbett ink splotch