Category: Bill Shea
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Why I do not give a shit about America 250
I’m a direct descendent of men and women that fought and died for the Continental Army during the American Revolution, but I am not feeling very patriotic about my country’s ugly regression. But I will celebrate the good stuff we’ve managed in 250 years, like Larry David, the movie Xanadu, and Steely Dan.
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Ladies and Gentlemen … The Doors
Jim Morrison and The Doors have been my life soundtrack since I was a teenager in the mid-1980s. Do they still matter? Does the mythmaking and bullshit obscure their unique achievement?
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Splashdown! Finally some good news amid the insane bullshit
The Artemis II moon mission was a rare bright spot for a world gone mad with war, killing, and plunder, especially for a space-obsessed Gen X kid that still clearly remembers the 1986 Challenger tragedy.
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Lawyers, Guns, and Money: Racist perverts rule our world
The world’s ruling class can literally fuck your children and there’s nothing you can do about it, and no way to hold them truly accountable. And that sucks! So what do we do?
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Unhappy New Year! We’re the bad guys!
Shitty 2025 has given way to an even shittier 2026. Trump’s fascist goons are killing us in the streets, and he’s declared he’s a god-emperor bent on conquest. What we do now will make all the difference.
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Final thoughts on the Edmund Fitzgerald (and the Titanic)
I attended the memorial service (at the Mariner’s Church of Detroit – the “musty old hall” from the song) to mark the 50th anniversary of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinking. As an old-head Titanic buff and a Great Lakes kid, it was moving and fascinating.
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A Bad Night For Sadistic Meatheads
It was a year late, but the Blue Wave arrived as a full-throated rejection of Donald Trump and MAGA. I’d forgotten what winning felt like. Today is a good day.
