Author: Tom Zaja

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes (c. 1612)

153 words

The tally of crimes is no neural vice
Cursing enemies no wasted locution
Stowing grudges far beyond their price
If some day it yields retribution
Count all transgressions — ten fingers ten toes
Enough fists and boots to keep score
Should amnesty to amnesia transpose
True injustice is laid bare to abhor
Should the piety of indifference be
What lets Christians rest on their laurels
I’d sooner say it’s clearer to see
When you’re perched atop former quarrels (more…)

867 words

The Left and their unique rainbow coalition
Is a liaison of most delicate condition.
There’s mutual distrust and much to disparage
Blacks don’t like trans rights, nor same-sex marriage.
Asians are diluted from university class
And sell weave in the hood, from behind plexiglass. (more…)

713 words

Mosely, Yockey, Evola, and Pound:
Their marbles lost, but genius found.
Or perhaps it’s just The System’s guise
To sully, defame, and pathologize
All those eccentric in speech and prose
Who point out the emperors’ lack of clothes.
The price is further loss of mind
Assigned asylum (of the psychiatric kind).
Much simpler to be a moderate today
And buffer liberalism on a ten-year delay. (more…)

4,026 words

Election season in Weimerica is, by some margin, the greatest show on Earth. For the candidates it becomes a rostrum, pulpit, and therapist’s couch, while for the people it is an Orwellian bellwether for where the collective herd is headed. (more…)

2,316 words

Question: How does a card-carrying Marxist and strident anti-monarchist become an overnight enthusiast of the British royal family? The answer is embodied by washed-up British demagogue and closeted Muslim George Galloway, (more…)

1,324 words

The decades-running cold war in the Spanish state may be reaching its zenith, as the autonomous region of Catalonia executes an unsanctioned referendum on independence. Europe has not seen anything like the extreme measures of repression currently strangling all segments of the region’s technological infrastructure, (more…)

2,432 words

The only thing as unpredictable as Donald Trump’s path to victory in the general election is perhaps his path out of it. Few can be sure of how Trump will hit the ground running after his motley of cabinet appointees and pledge to exculpate Hillary Clinton from prosecution.  (more…)