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Fifty‑Eight Years Later, the Truth About MLK’s Murder Still Terrifies America

January 19, 2026 Edward Curtin 5 Comments

Educating people about who killed King, and why, and why it matters today, is the greatest service we can render to his memory.

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Swinging on a Double Action Heinous Hinge with Donald Trump

January 12, 2026 Edward Curtin 27 Comments

Trump is a spectacle, an image, a hologram conjured out of the dark underside of the swamp of the Unites States’ brutal, ruthless, and violent history. That is why he serves as the double action hinge that swings the self-contradictory idiocy of the revolving door of what passes for political debate and democracy in the U.S.

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Listening to Frank Sinatra on New Year’s Eve

December 31, 2025 Edward Curtin 8 Comments

Like many people, when a New Year rolls around, I think of turning over a new leaf. The problem with…

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The Classics

December 22, 2025 Edward Curtin 12 Comments

Here we are in the middle of our lives. Somewhere someone is reading a book, Quietly, deep in thought, pages…

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Friedrich Nietzsche Asks George Clooney, “Jay Kelly,” and Us: What is an Actor?

December 16, 2025 Edward Curtin 5 Comments

“Are you genuine? Or merely an actor? A representative? Or that which is represented? In the end, perhaps you are…

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Great Was Its Fall

December 5, 2025 Edward Curtin 16 Comments

When it comes, it comes on slowly The day feels holy, a hush falls down Whispered names, remembered faces From…

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My Latest Book- At the Lost and Found

December 1, 2025 Edward Curtin 8 Comments

I offer all my work that appears here for free, so if you think it worthy, I hope you would…

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Mechanical Mikey and the Theater of War

November 17, 2025 Edward Curtin 9 Comments

“If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood/Come gurgling from the froth-corrupted lungs . . . . My friend,…

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Out of Time

November 10, 2025 Edward Curtin 17 Comments

“If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird…

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Teed Off While Relaxing

October 31, 2025 Edward Curtin 5 Comments

Sports only matter because they don’t. And because they don’t – are forms of play meant, most importantly, to be…

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  • Fifty‑Eight Years Later, the Truth About MLK’s Murder Still Terrifies America
  • Swinging on a Double Action Heinous Hinge with Donald Trump
  • Listening to Frank Sinatra on New Year’s Eve
  • The Classics
  • Friedrich Nietzsche Asks George Clooney, “Jay Kelly,” and Us: What is an Actor?
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