Rodger Jacobs' Columns
"So here we are, the country that has wrapped itself up in the mantle of moral, ethical, and intellectual superiority, a tribe increasingly cozy with the idea of global domination, and we can’t get up off our lazy asses and get down to a bookstore and buy a book...and read it." Column by Rodger Jacobs.
I Can't Get Home! Thanks, Homeland Security!
"If
there are any safe, sane women in the
"Sometimes
evil doesn’t look like evil and sometimes the 'good guys' are wearing hideous
masks, too." Column by Rodger Jacobs.
Column by Rodger Jacobs.
Extravagant Color in Impaired Light
"War was not 'extravagant in color,' Tillman learned, or 'lurid with breathless deeds.' It is a scary, bloody, heart-arresting, dirty enterprise...." Column by Rodger Jacbos.
M*A*S*H Redux: New Relevance for the 4077th
"Watching this suddenly relevant episode of M*A*S*H reminded me with the force of a hammer blow to the skull that the madness of war is timeless, the barbaric methods engaged in by 'the good guys' everlasting." Column by Rodger Jacobs.
"Get
ready to prepare your own punch line: the
"Why do I do it? Why do I torture myself by watching Fox News?" Column by Rodger Jacobs.
Educating Oscar: Snakeheads at Starbucks
Column by Rodger Jacobs.
Mickey Mouse With a Machine Gun
"To say that we have lost the moral high ground in the wake of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal is an understatement of epic proportions. What we have done, in our knee-jerk, post-9/11 effort to 'achieve victory in the war on terror at any cost,' is expose to the world just how sick and darkly twisted our culture has become." Column by Rodger Jacobs.
"I need only to point to the rancorous, theology-fueled debates in this nation over abortion, prayer in the classroom and same-sex marriage to illustrate that the Christian faithful are indeed doing everything within their hypocritical and strangulating powers to 'structure society by limiting the freedom of the people.'" Column by Rodger Jacobs.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
"But that's just one of the varieties of religious experience, leaving a flavor in my mouth that sickens me like a communion wafer laced with arsenic." Column by Rodger Jacobs.
Norman Mailer and the Box Cutters
Rodger Jacobs interprets Betty Ong's 9/11 nightmare.
This is all part of what the media has dubbed 'the new normal,' a multitude of small disruptions in our daily lives, some of them practical, many of them media-induced with the constant worry over the national threat level and the prospect of a future terror attack that will make 9/11 look like a cake walk. Forget all this talk about the Constitutional freedoms that are being put through the paper shredder, what we're really losing that's all the more valuable is peace of mind, the freedom to not worry about why that man bought so many cases of water or what airport security is going to think when they shove a palm down your pants and find naked flesh where undergarments should be." Column by new Root Striker Rodger Jacobs.