‘Cultural Thought & Commentary’ Articles

Happy Easter everyone! Or perhaps Joyous Passover, Wondrous Equinox, Merry Earth Day! After a weekend with family, this is just another Monday here at the Pigeon Post. Another Monday means the beginning to another week of political tomfoolery, television trickery, and sports unspectaculars. The powers that be have never been know for creativity (unless it be creative ways to take more of your money and spend it stimulating their economy); this spring is no different. [Read the rest of this article...]

Everything I had planned this weekend went up in smoke, but I am finding it hard to complain about much this evening. The plans, and lives, of so many others were shattered Saturday morning in Tucson, Arizona. I spent much of the weekend exchanging thoughts, and the occasional angry word, with political friends and associates regarding our nation's political tone. Is angry rhetoric linked to violence? If so, are the purveyors of such rhetoric directly responsible for the deaths on Saturday? I think the truth of the matter lies somewhere to the calm side of blame and retribution. [Read the rest of this article...]

In the strange television dominated world of the NFL, many decisions are made solely on individual perceptions of ability completely removed from the measurable statistics of the player. When the right commentator, ex-coach, or columnist tells the right audience that a player is good, no amount of bad stats will change the minds of the average sports fan. When the same sources decide a player is poor, the reaction from the fans, at the stadiums and on sports talk radio, is ruthless. In the ultimate team sport, players and coaches are anointed as successful, whether the stats support the benediction or not. [Read the rest of this article...]

I have family that expressed outrage over the local convenience store being open on Jesus' birthday, and have heard more and more political figures who concur. On reflection, I suppose this whole line of thinking is an off-shoot of the conservative notion of culture war; liberals and other enemies of God are attacking Christmas as a part of their evil scheme to secularize the world. On this notion, the 20% of Americans who are either politically active conservative Christians or militant atheists fail to account for the fact that the rest of the country wants them both to shut up! [Read the rest of this article...]

As a writer, it is almost impossible to resist the urge to compare the NFL with the Roman Empire. All of the talk of coliseums and gladiators, legions and conquest tend to leave normally humble scribes in the throws of hyperbole. And so it is that I, a certified football junky, am left to proclaim the coming fall of professional football as we know it. The NFL has fallen victim to that most American of vices, hubris. The owners and marketers that drive the league are convinced of its immortality in the same way that U.S. automakers were in the 70's and 80's, and Major League Baseball owners were in the 50's and 60's. [Read the rest of this article...]

Many moons ago during the Women's liberation movements of the 60's and '70's, bra-burning was a pretty big social event. Off came the bras, out came the hooters, and it made for good media, not to mention a very entertaining lunch break. [Read the rest of this article...]

In support of National Topless Day (I was unaware that there was such a day), and on the shimmering sidewalks and beachs of Venice Beach (put this place on your Bucket List because you will see things that will amaze you, kinda like an open air freak show), where else, women were marching for their God-given right to share a larger-portion of their birthday suits with the rest of humanity. God bless 'em. [Read the rest of this article...]

This is just sweet. Right now, one-in-five people believe that Barrack Obama, the 44th President of the United States in a Muslim. The Pew Research Center has released a new report that illustrates the upward belief the Obama is Muslim, while simultaneously showing a downward trend that he is a Christian. [Read the rest of this article...]

If these things can alter blood, by God they can alter anything. Instinctively they began to back away from the vendor, now fearing that even being next to the devices from the Devil himself would destroy whatever artwork they had labored to inject internally. [Read the rest of this article...]