Weekly Round-up, March 7, 2026

Roughly a week ago, Donald Trump, at the command of Benjamin Netanyahu, launched Operation Epstein in Trump’s most vigorous attempt yet to draw attention away from the mountains of proof that he was a regular visitor and enthusiastic participant in the festivities on Jeffrey Epstein’s island.

With the amount of grift, theft, and murder endemic in every initiative of Drippy Diaper Donald’s administration, we are seeing what would have happened if the Zec had been elected president.

Add in the increasing Christian Nationalist fervor and end-times rhetoric, and the sense is in the air that we are well into a polycrisis moment in history.

Just to be clear – all religious fundamentalism, no matter the religion, is prima facie invalid, as all religious fundamentalism exists only to entrench power among the leaders of religious movements. And fundamentalism among the Abrahamic religions, in particular, is nothing more than an apocalyptic death wish.

Reading

I am still slowly working through Foucault’s Pendulum, a couple of pages a night. And in my spare moments (ha!) during the day, I am reading The Evergreen Review Reader, 1967 – 1973. I read the previous volume, which collected work from 1957 to 1966, last year. There is so much good work within!

Writing

This past Tuesday, for the first time, I attended the monthly Twilight Tribe open mic at Gaia Cafe. It was wonderful! I have not visited or participated in a regular poetry event in years. I have managed the occasional one-off event here and there, but now that my schedule has changed I can reconnect with the local writing communities.

The poets at the event inspired me to step up my review, collecting, and editing efforts with my own poetry, which has been collecting dust for far too long. I hope to have something ready to read by the end of the month.

Weekly Writing Prompt

Subject: Fae, Language
Setting: Labyrinth
Genre: Literary Fiction

Listening

Woody Guthrie, “All You Fascists Bound to Lose”

Interesting Links

What follows are several of the Iran War round-up posts at Naked Capitalism. The posts, and the comments which follow each post, are a gold mine of information about the ongoing hegemonic absurdities in the Middle East.

Ecce Sigum