The Price of Admission
On the one thing we refuse to teach — and what it costs us.
From the Desk
The Writing of Joe Broadmeadow
The Founding Fathers Group Chat
“America 250” — A private group. 4 participants. Notifications: ON. Encryption: We hoped so. A satire by Joe Broadmeadow Jefferson opens the thread. JEFFERSON…
White Masked Cowards: 21st Century KKK
I spent twenty years reading faces for a living. When someone covers their face in public, it's because they know what they're about to do wouldn't survive daylight. That's Patriot Front — the 21st century Klan wearing a new uniform.
The Case of the Broken Bottle: A Citizen’s Complaint Against Officer Killjoy
“But when I kissed the cop down on 34th and VineHe broke my little bottle of Love Potion Number 9” It is with a…
Happy Birthday, America. Now Please Stop Reading the Amendments Out Loud, It’s Upsetting the Host
I’ve been to a lot of parties where the guest of honor couldn’t help himself. Somebody hands him the microphone to say a few…
Why We’re Together Alone: Suburban Life and Digital Disconnect
Little boxes on the hillside,Little boxes made of ticky tacky,Little boxes on the hillside,Little boxes all the same.There's a green one and a pink…
I Have Been Grievously Insulted
This is a true story. I am traumatized by this event There I was, at an outdoor concert on a perfect summer evening, minding…
The Power of Human Resilience
There is a quiet, stubborn force that has carried humanity through plagues, wars, depressions, and the long, uncertain stretches in between. It doesn’t make…
Artifacts of the Faithful
The bones of Earth had been cooling for two hundred years when the Kaelith survey team cracked open the Houston sediment layer and found…
The Seam Between
By Joe Broadmeadow A short story of a common scene to those of us who have watched a robin pull a worm from the…