My Hero Lefty

March, 2011

Pays homage to a man who managed to go through modern life sans a telephones Bertolt Brecht said, "Pity the country that needs heroes." These words bleed truth. As this country falls ever deeper in its cant and lip service to heroes and hero­ism, the more meaningfully the truth of those words runs. Try as I might to sum­mon to mind anyone whom I hold as a hero, I know that none I might so hold has to do with this shit about patriotism or fighting terrorism by handing out parking ticket...