Barackodile Tears

The best American tools aren't made by Porter-Cable-they're made by Goldman Sachs. One such tool hammered in the last nails of the 1960s coffin- the real hope and change- an undertaker who cleaned up the messes of the Bush-Cheney crime family and buried the anti war movement, black militancy, Medicare for All, habeas corpus, government whistleblowers, Occupy Wall Street, the 3rd Amendment, the Employee Free Choice Act and prosecutions of spying telecoms, thieving bankers and CIA torturers. Besides satirical essays lamenting what was lost during the Obama years, this book also contains rhapsodies to Mose Allison, Keith Emerson, Sam Greenlee, Michio Kushi, Rachel Rosenthal and Gil Scott-Heron. There are essays on home sweet home (The Devil's Real Estate Dictionary), online dating (Codebreaker), a scary/fun wooden roller coaster which doubles as a prison for war criminals (I Am the Rhombus), a punny play on Watergate by way of Shakespeare (McDick) and a review of Brian De Palma's American history lesson Blow Out.