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  • From The Publishers
  • Summer 1970 - Fishing with Alligators
  • The Fire-Starters
  • Jimi Hendrix Was The Roy Buchanan of Rock & Roll & Other Rural American Stories
  • Real Genius
  • Guns, Faith and Murder
  • A Blue World
  • Nova Explains
  • Satan's Jr. High
  • The Million Dollar Store
  • The People Who care
  • Jesus and The Red Words
  • Sniffing Out White Supremacy
  • Artistic Con-cepts
  • “The Word From The Streets”
  • A Voice from the Crowd
  • How a White-man Became a Black-man In Order To Find His Whiteness—His Alright-ness.
  • Camille Bertault: 2 Views of a Secret
  • Judy Garland - "Soul Singer"
  • Robert & Jimi and the Twenty Seven Blues
  • The Last Vestiges of Mueller’s Collusion Case Just Died...and Nobody Noticed
  • The Great Pretenders
  • Imagine
  • Me and Junior Parker
  • The Republican
  • "Kill The Pigs!!!"
  • "Another of Trump's Henchmen Falls!!!"
  • Saving ISIS, Killing America
  • Cyrus The Great Strikes Again
  • The Big Lie - "Fear Russia Love China"
  • “The Russians are Coming!” (again)
  • "Impeach This!"
  • “Trump Backs Turkey Down”
  • Congressman Elijah Cummings Died last night at the age of 68.
  • Sweet Home Chicago (The Obama Shakedown)
  • Blind as a Bat
  • "I cannot Tell a Lie"
  • If Only Obama Was Still President, Syria Would Be Swell
  • Impeachment Fever
  • The Ballad of Hunter & Joe
  • "God Will Do It!"
  • Jeffrey Epstein & The Mysterious Case of The Infinite Pedophile Monkeys
  • The World is Insane: pt 4095 - “What is Less Than Zero?”
  • The Magic Bullet and The Lonely Death of Jeffrey Epstein
  • The Facts about Illegal Immigration
  • Chicago
  • Liz Warren Hits The Road
  • Traitors & Lies
  • “If The World Was Fair”
  • "The Few, The proud, The Insane: The Democrats"
  • "GOD & UNCLE SAM"
  • A Minor Complaint
  • Murder in The Meantime
  • The 22-yr-old Bottle Blonde
  • “Jerry “The Toad” & other Sesame Street Lessons”
  • "Riffing in Tongues"
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence Revisited
  • The Few The Brave The FBI
  • Jesus and Liz Warren Want to Forgive You
  • The Witch Hunt Ends? Not Even Close.
  • Divine Guidance
  • The Crocodile & The Politician
  • Uncle Joe Apologizes
  • Why I Hate, Hate Crimes
  • It's Only a Matter of Time
  • Let It Rain
  • Dumb & Dumber
  • ....of Poets & Scientists
  • Goodbye Pork-Fried Rat
  • Hearing Duane Eddy
  • Is It Alright...To Be White?
  • "Hell is Real!!!"
  • Mauled by Reality
  • The Cult of The Secret Unknowing Marxist
  • Resist the Devil and He Will Flea
  • The Unwitting Socialist
  • Personal Stories
  • The Magula Report 2019
  • "The New Blood & The New Deal"
  • “The Wall"....and other, mostly silly conversations.
  • The War for the Soul of Mankind: “Stan Getz vs Eric Dolphy”
  • The "Others"
  • White Cracker-Ass Niggas
  • New York Gives The Thumbs Up To Mass Genocide
  • Rudy & Nat
  • A Close Shave With The Well-Intended Bigot
  • This is What Happens When My Favorite Band “The Mellow Herb” Comes To Town
  • The Hemispherical Brain Activity of a Wayward Somnambulist
  • Gun "Race With The Devil"
  • “Half Of All Millennials Think Barack Obama is More Important Than George Washington!!??”
  • "The Dow Posts The Biggest One Day Gain In History."
  • Good Morning Comrades
  • Sharks, Zombies & God
  • A Road Home
  • You're Getting Sleepy....Very Sleepy
  • Stupid People
  • Jezebel and Ahab Make a Comeback
  • Stevie Ray Vaughn: Derivitive Hack or Genius
  • Music & Reminiscence
  • “The Giant Facebook Id-Monster Attacks”
  • “Bullshit...it’s a Damned Invasion!”
  • Bobby-Jack
  • Lowell George searching for authenticity
  • For The Love of Krazy Kat
  • How I Came To Understand That Fighting The Power Was Useless. Unless...You Fight The Power By Giving Power to The Power To Fight The Power
  • Within the Lifetime Of The Average American...The U.S. Population Could Realistically Exceed That of China & India
  • The Problem of Blasphemy In a Secular Society
  • The Waitress and The Power
  • A Message From The Democrats After The 2018 Midterms
  • On This Day Before Election Day, These 5 Things Should Be Remembered As You Vote
  • A Lie Is As Good As The Truth....as long as it's a good lie
  • "Evil Republicans Suppress The Minority Vote"
  • The Enemy of Mankind
  • The Mob
  • Why Chinese Tariffs?
  • A Caravan To Nowhere
  • Ant Farm
  • “They’re Coming For Your Social Security!”
  • The Witchfinder Speaketh
  • Eating Sawdust & Voting Democrat
  • Muslims Kill Washington Post Journalist”...and other stories best left untold
  • Orwell's Nightmare
  • The Sobbing Walrus
  • A Telling Lie
  • Tribal Marxism
  • A Pimp and His Stable of Political Whores
  • "Evidence?.... I Don't Need No Damned Evidence!"
  • A Post Modern Lynching
  • Talkin’ Blues: A White Social Justice Warrior Meets a Bluesman
  • Pocahontas Wants To Impeach President Trump
  • A Belated Tip of The Hat To John McCain's Funeral
  • "Colin Kaepernick Fights The Power. My Brothers!"
  • Jack Ryan: Promoting Jihad & The Brotherhood of Man
  • Rediscovering Willie "The Fruitbat" Johnson
  • The Allegation
  • Message in a Bottle
  • A Coven of Witches
  • The Communist & The Exalted Cyclops
  • America vs Satanic Goat Worshipers
  • Forcing Transgender Penis Cakes on America
  • The Iidots Lament
  • Irritating Post: no. 529
  • Irritating Post: no. 642
  • My Brain is a Liar
  • My New Rap "Alligators"
  • Helpful Hints in Logic
  • The Unredacted News
  • A Loss of Composure
  • The Myth of Objective Fact Checkers
  • Surviving Politics
  • The Pit or The Pendulum
  • Do Not Forsake Me. Not For a Dollar. Not For a Dime.
  • Repeller of The Amorites
  • Sometimes I feel Like a Motherless Child...but only sometimes
  • Welcome To The Freakshow
  • Part One: The Monster Is Summoned
  • A Sideways Glance at Reality....
  • The Ballad of Trey Gowdy
  • Lies, Spies, and Thighs at The FBI
  • The Ballad of Charlie Crockett
  • Children in Cages
  • A Poem For Clifford Odets
  • Anthony Bourdain
  • Like Billy Eckstein Singing to an Empty Club at 1:00 AM on a Saturday Night in 1975.
  • A Letter From The Democratic National Committee
  • Bent
  • "There Were No Spies in The FBI and Other Fictional Tales"
  • The New Rules For Radicals
  • Blood In The Water
  • "3000 American Businesses Colluded with Russia For Profit"
  • I Spy (For The FBI)
  • Free Shit—and Bears
  • Cute Dog Videos
  • How The Press Aided and Abetted Terrorists
  • The Iran Deal Myth
  • The Scouts
  • Pinko Muthafuckas
  • Kelly Joe Phelps
  • Johnny Winter and, 1970
  • Happy Days Are Here Again
  • RAGe Against The Machine
  • Carlos and Buddy
    • How The Bird & Darwin Took Flight With a A7#9 Chord
  • Just a Few Glaring Examples Of Media Scummery
  • They Call it Stormy Monday
  • "I Gotta Take A Wiz" or, "How Starbucks Destroyed the World"
  • Who Needs War?
  • Why The Devil Don't Come Around No More
  • 2+2 Really Does = 4
  • The Tangled Web
  • Shadow Banning
  • What Changed?
  • Oblivious But Concerned
  • "Give Up!"
  • Jesus: The Spirit of Man and God That Illuminates The Darkness
  • Mickey Baker: Goin' To Kansas City
  • "Washington Saves America from Pot-smoking Mass Murderers"
  • Nontraditional Thoughts
  • Attack of The Trillion Dollar Omnibus Bill
  • Hearing Junior Wells “On Tap'' one more Time
  • Just Words
  • Muddy and Me
  • Racist Debtaes About Terrorsim
  • Fidel's Utopia
  • Unwitting Hypocrisy is The Best Kind of Hypocrisy
  • Excess Baggage
  • Excess Baggage pt. 2
  • Fake News Is The New Real News
  • The Death of Billy Graham and Manufacturing Consent
  • American Youth: The Rise of The New Media
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Talk About Slavery and Shit
  • Just Smoke
  • Monkey in a Box
  • How The Children of Sal and Dean Destroyed The World
  • On This Cold Winter's Morn
  • The Crime of the Century
  • Evidence: What The Hell Is It?
  • They Were Pissed: America, Jack Kerouac, and the Beats
  • Negotiating The Maze Of Life and a Blues Shuffle.
  • Everyone Is Hitler (In their own Way)
  • The Mystery of The Giant Balloon Shark
  • Subterfuge and Its Discontents
  • God Debunks Global Warming
  • Day Two: God Continues To Debunk Global Warming
  • Strzoking Russia
  • The Al Franken Effect. Or, How to Destroy America and Lose Elections
  • The Big Maybe
  • The News Apocalypse
  • The Guitarticle (Guitar article)
  • The Nation of Lucifer
  • Slurring Pocahontas
  • Why Everything Good Said About Net Neutrality is a Lie
  • .....and behold, The Cause of Your Demise Is Upon You
  • The Trans-boy That Cried Wolf
  • Believe Nothing
  • Donald Trump Blasts The Heads Off Of Tiny Woodland Creatures
  • The Problem of Hypocrites
  • Roy Moore: Serial Pervert
  • I'm So Frustrated
  • The Devil's Whisper
  • Science Can't Dance
  • You're Gonna Have To Serve Somebody
  • Louie C. K.
  • Common Sense
  • Hunting For Witches
  • Living in The Age of "tRump"
  • The Devil is a Hustler
  • The Skinny
  • Eric Dolphy
  • ISIS Rode in On a Donkey
  • "The Manafort Indictment"
  • The Truth About the Middle East
  • Dennis Budimer's "Alone Together" Revisited
  • The Halloween Edition
  • The 20th Century Was Groovy
  • The Salesman
  • The Dossier
  • Elmore James
  • Isle of The Poor
  • The Patriarchy is Alive and Well
  • Moving Napoleon
  • Guns and Guerrillas
  • Playing Four
  • Hollywood and Scumbags
  • Why Everything You Think, Is Wrong
  • Killing Yourself With Terrorism
  • Being Liberal
  • Laced With Hate
  • A Message From Occupy Democrats
  • A Taxing Dilemma
  • What Really Happened with Aid in Puerto Rico
  • Colin Kaepernick and Beyoncé are geniuses. Part 1
  • When the Levee Breaks
  • The Second Coming of Anthony Weiner
  • How to Never Lose a Fight
  • Creating Chaos out of Meaning
  • Crime and Punishment
  • The Man in the Mirror
  • Guitar Gods of the Sixties
  • Entopy: A Play in One Act
  • The Ragged Tale of a Poverty Stricken Economic Genius
  • The Dreamers
  • Hey There Georgy Girl
  • This Is Not a Defense of Joel Osteen. Or is it?
  • The Ballad of Poindexter Glockenspiel
  • The Big Dummy
  • More Florida in Pictures and Text
  • How Do I Hate Thee
  • Florida in Images and More Images
  • "How To Solve The Healthcare Crisis and Why It's So Damned Hard To Fix"
  • The Big Lie
  • The Demise of the West
  • “Good Times! Good Times! You know, we talkin’ bout Good Times!”
  • "Justice My Ass!"
  • Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
  • The Coming Apocalypse and How to Avoid it: a Historical/Biblical Perspective.
  • "Muthafuckin' Chains!"
  • Lies Our Father's Told Us
  • Poetry and Politics - a few mixed verses
  • The Inner Man
  • The Vampire and The Carpet Salesman
  • Comey Speaks!
  • A Word From Nostradamus about the Comey Hearings
  • The Towering Babble
  • Chain of Fools
  • I Got Ramblin' on My Mind
  • Telling Ourselves Stories
  • Shit! Make Me Wanna Holler!
  • Even More Reasons Why The Paris Accords are Total Horseshit.
  • When Life Imitates Satire
  • Jethro and Becky Sue Come To America
  • Random Apocrypha
  • Why The Paris Climate Accords Are Total Horseshit
  • Urban Stories
  • The Kingdom of God: a personal rant
  • Urban Week @ South Beach
  • Serpico Revisited
  • The Road To Surf-dumb. Or, is it The Road To Serfdom?
  • This is Not a Political Article
  • My Hometown
  • What Does This Mean?
  • We're All Fools Sometime
  • One Pill Makes You Larger
  • "What a Maroon!"
  • Secrets and Lies
  • A Tale of Wine and Murder
  • "White House Under Siege!"
  • The Amateur Narcissist
  • Like a Rock
  • The Greatest of Ally of a True Idiot is.....
  • How To Prove someone's a Witch
  • Jesus Was a Sly Dog
  • An Open Letter From The Democratic National Committee
  • The Power of Language
  • The Existential Croûton
  • Random Facebook Thoughts
  • A Play "The Poverty Racket"
  • The Demise of the 4th Estate
  • Love To Hate My Enemies
  • Feelings, Oh, Oh, Oh, Feelings
  • Art or Reality
  • The Prison Yard Blues
  • Who is Richard Spencer and Why Does He Matter?
  • __an excerpt from "The Power of Voltron "
  • A Plea From a Progressive
  • ANTIFA - The Anti Fascists, Fascists
  • Conspiracy Theory
  • 4 More Poems, 4 More Pictures
  • "Are You Freaking People Insane?"
  • 4 Pictures 4 Poems
  • The Ballad of Carlos Slim
  • Pretending What's in Your Head is True
  • The Cognitive Dissonance of a Faithful Democrat
  • The Human Snakepit
  • George Freeman - Unsung Master of the Jazz Guitar
  • The Price of Milk
  • Suspicious Minds
  • Bill O'Reilly Sexual Predator?
  • The New Soldier
  • Orwell Revisited
  • Larry Coryell - The Godfather is Dead
  • A Tiger Beat
  • South Florida - HOT & COOL
  • Jean Paul Sartre & the Existentialist Mojo
  • Culture Matters, Immigration Matters, Sharks Matter
  • Thomas Sowell
  • A Tree Falls In Central Park on a Gay Banker
  • Black Codes From The Underground
  • Does an Idiot know they're an Idiot?
  • A Poem for Pooh
  • It's All or Nothing Baby!
  • Racism is Alive and Well
  • "Shut the Hell Up!"
  • Jerry Seinfeld - Social Pariah
  • A Man Must Nurture His Pet Peeves
  • Not the Usual Immigration Article
  • Man Talk, with Donald Trump pt. 1
  • Man Talk, with Donald Trump pt. 2
  • The Bad Seed
  • Dogma Never Sleeps
  • Trump and Clinton Debate
  • Was Jesus a True Pacifist?
  • Brexit Was the Shot Heard Around the World
  • Obama, How Great Thou Art
  • War is Good
  • The Willful Ignorance of Intellectual Children
  • What about All Those Peacful Muslims?
  • Terror! What Terror?
  • Biff and Shorty Play The Blues
  • Forty Miles of Bad Road
  • How Obamacare Became the law of the land: And Other Fairytales for Adults
  • Genteel Republicans vs The Alt-Right
  • Should Drugs be Legal?
  • The Prophet Speaks
  • The Dream Sequence
  • Voting 3rd Party and the Moral Low-Ground
  • Sayonara America
  • What does Never Trump Mean?
  • Barack Obama is the Most Brilliant Man Ever to be President?
  • If God Created War, Does That Mean That War is Good?
  • Never Let Your Enemies Define You
  • Facebook, Science & Religion
  • Bullshit by the Numbers
  • Bullshit by the Numbers - part II
  • The Heated Quest for the "No Information Voter"
  • I Love The Dead
  • Those Who Lurk
  • Battered, Bruised and Beaten
  • Trump and Hitler
  • America in Black and White
  • Trans-Athletics
  • Playing a Rigged Game
  • Who was that Mass Murderer?
  • The Kidnappers
  • The Game
  • Terror in Nice: A Variation on a Theme
  • The Idiots Guide on How to Destory the World
  • Terror in France
  • A Fictional Conversation Between a Pastor and a Historian About the Bible
  • The Immoral Necessity for Scapegoats
  • Who Really Shot Those Eleven Cops? Was It Donald Trump?
  • Killer Cops and Cop Killers
  • Happy 4th of July
  • How Do You Cast Your Vote When You've Only Got a Few Bullets Left?
  • "Yes, She's a Lying Sack of Shit....but She's our Lying Sack of Shit."
  • All Apologies
  • Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up
  • Goodbye Scotty Moore
  • If a Bluebird Plays the Blues Why Can't it Play Free Jazz
  • Terror in Turkey
  • When David Slew Goliath
  • The Life & Death of a Global Fat Cat
  • Intentionally Censoring the News
  • The Brits Leave the EU
  • Chick, Christian, Roy & Kenny G
  • Who Really Committed Mass Murder in Orlando
  • The Tale of the Prince and the Shrew
  • A Dying Father's Last Father's Day
  • Mass Murdering, Terrorist's Father is Obama and Hillary's Best Friend
  • Why Cream still Matters 50 Years Later
  • Misguided Anger and Partisan Politics
  • The Deep Guilt of the Religious Left
  • Radical Islam! What Radical Islam?
  • Denial is a River in Egypt
  • A Response to all the Haters
  • Why Muhammad Ali was my Hero (in spite of being a Racist)
  • Why Trump Matters
  • The New Progressive Racism
  • A Tragedy in Cincinnati
  • The Evil that Men do (Women too.)
  • Differences? What Differences?
  • Racism Revisited
  • Battling Immigration Straw Men
  • Blood Quantum
  • Fighting Transgender Straw Men
  • Logical Fallacies about God and Money
  • Progressive Straw Men
  • Everybody is Robbing You Blind
  • On The Road To El Donaldo
  • Dear Mark: About Donald Trump
  • Identifying the Enemy
  • Why I Will Vote For Trump
  • I Totally Agree With Myself
  • Teaching Americans Where to Pee
  • Goodbye Lonnie Mack
  • Bernie Wants You To Pay His Fair Share
  • Bruce Springsteen vs. North Carolina
  • Mr. Smiley Is an Idiot
  • Why Does College Cost So Much?
  • Black Power and Bad Vibes At Whiteness History Month
  • How Facebook Showed Me That We're Doomed
  • Muslims kill Muslims by means of White People
  • The Slap
  • America Wants a 3rd Party Candidate
  • Jesus Loved Everybody
  • Call it what it is.
  • Belgium vs. Turkey. Which One is Worse?
  • Barack, Fidel and Che
  • How He Gonna Get His Money pt. 2
  • How He Gonna Get His Money
  • The Turn of The Screw
  • Dear America: Now, about Trump....
  • The Attack of the Anti Trumpers
  • Did You Know that America is Socialism....and boy, ain't it Swell
  • Trump - Prophet or Blowhard?
  • Black Lies Matter, All Lies Matter
  • The Donald and the Debate
  • Leonardo and The Bear
  • The Thunder Rolled and the "Trump" Blows em all to Hell
  • Fragmented Fairytails
  • Cars That Never Were but Should've Been, Part 6
  • Building The Perfect Beast
  • America: A Tale of Two Cities, Part 1
  • Uncle Bernie in New Hampshire
  • The Big L
  • The Diary of a Former Leftist
  • Free Speech not Hate Speech?
  • State of the Union
  • Losing My Religion
  • Don't Take Our Guns Away Until We Kill Those Honky Bastards
  • Bye Bye Europe
  • "Trump is a Racist!"
  • "Hell Yeah! I've Got Obama Care!
  • Trumponomics
  • Woman of the Year
  • Malicious Intent and the Art of the Microaggression
  • Muslim No-Go Zones - Myth or Reality?
  • Donald J. Trump and the Muslim Migration to America
  • There Is No God But Allah?
  • Roadhouse - The Reboot
  • Sometimes You Just Can't Win
  • A Few Thoughts Regarding Trump
  • Cars That Never Were But Should've Been, Part 5
  • You Can Have My Steering Wheel When You Pry It From Cold, Daed Hands
  • The Great Debate
  • Al, Thomas and Paul - Malthusians Then and Now
  • A Prophet Debates Global Warming and other retated Dogma
  • Memes, Scapegoats, Propaganda
  • Little Hillary and Her Monsters
  • A Prophecy for America
  • The Basketball Metaphor
  • Vladimir Putin: An American Hero
  • Little Things
  • The Democrats Debate
  • It's All Ablout da Benjamins
  • Remember When?
  • Mass Shooter
  • Cars That Never Were But Should've Been: Part 4
  • Should A Muslim Be President in America?
  • The Strange Case of Ahmed Mohamed
  • Debt and Other Devious Angels
  • Bernie Sanders is Caesar not Jesus
  • An inconvenient Truth
  • Who's really a Native American?
  • The Rebirth of the Silent Majority
  • Money That's What I Want!
  • The Syrian Crisis and the Memeing of America
  • Why Societies Have Generally Valued Men More than Women
  • The Problem of Evil
  • A few Thoughts on a Few Things
  • The Authentic pose of a Black White Man
  • Sweden: Socialist Utopia or Progressive Madhouse?
  • Why Dogs Matter
  • Guilty Until Proven Innocent
  • Was Jesus a Socialist?
  • "The Donald" A Man for the Ages
  • Harvesting the Wheat - or - Karma's a Real Bitch
  • Cecil The Lion
  • Cars That Never Were but Should’ve Been, Part 3
  • Secrets and Lies
  • Can Minorities Be Racist?
  • I Was Just Thinking....Hmm?
  • Iran Deal - Good or Bad?
  • Jihad or Not Jihad? That is the Question.
  • "Let's Do Lunch" with Planned Parenthood
  • America The Contemptible
  • Marriage, Bigotry and Cooties
  • The Things We Care About
  • The Simplicity of it All
  • A Dissenting Opinion
  • Cars That Should've Been, But Never Were: part II
  • Live Now, Pay Later
  • I Am, Whatever I Say I Am!
  • Bernie Sanders is the Dumbest Bastard on Earth
  • Cars That Never Were But Should've Been
  • Bruce Jenner
  • The Good Society
  • A Personal Jesus For My Own
  • Take a Ride on a Hell Bound Train
  • Requiem For a Car Show
  • Obama Channels Neville Chamberlain in Dealing with Iran
  • The Short Life of a Political Lemming
  • The Strongman
  • The Broken Window
  • The Selective Outrage of The Anti Israel Left
  • When the Blind Lead the Blind
  • Top Brass With Class
  • Living In A world On Fire
  • Lying Liars and the Lies They Tell
  • What The Hell Is Esotericism?
  • Unicorns, Free Healthcare and other Mythological Creatures
  • Heroes and Dunces
  • A Few Thoughts On a Few Things
  • The Return Of Super Fly
  • Should You Ever Bet On A dead Horse?
  • Money For Nothing
  • Across The Great Divide
  • Tom, Jerry, Eddie & Sydney
  • The Folly of Foibles
  • Who really killed Eric Garner?
  • The Art of The Sale
  • Political Bullshit and All That Jazz
  • Oh, The Horror of It All
  • To Torture or Not To Torture, That is The Question
  • Selective Justice
  • Executive Action
  • Give Us Your Tired, Poor and Ambitious
  • Johnny Winter, Ahhh-Yeahh!
  • Homeless and Transgender "Let My People Pee!"
  • Are We Insane? You Betcha!
  • Ebola and Racism
  • You're a Racist, Just Admit It!
  • To Discriminate or Not to Discriminate, That is the Question
  • The Life of an Imaginary Historian
  • Why Most Debates About The Minimum Wage are Bullshit
  • The Return of the Infinite Monkeys
  • Politically Correct Genocide
  • Language and the illusion of Meaning
  • Obama vs. Reagan
  • Is Barack Obama our Most Successful President Ever?
  • White Racism Black Racism
  • The Race
  • Should People Be Free to Discriminate?
  • Science, Religion and Brother Neil
  • Welcome To America
  • The Reincarnation of Jimmy Carter and the Return of Scarface
  • SCOTUS, Condoms and Collateral Damage
  • The American Dream
  • Attack of the Bloated Leeches or "Why Does the Economy Suck pt. II"
  • Why Does the Economy Suck?
  • Jaco Pastorius - A Passage in Time
  • How can we save the world, from people who want to save the world?
  • A Short Political rant: pt I
  • Jerry Reed, Tom Jones and the Original Guitar Heroes
  • Part Two: The Politics of the Eloi and the Morlock
  • Angel: part 7
  • Wayne Cochran "Going Back to Miami"
  • Blessed Assurances and other Iron Clad Guarantees
  • James Brown & the Art of the Indefinite Rhythm
  • If the Bible Say's it, I believe It!
  • Go For a Jog, Go to Jail
  • Life as Theatre and The Well-Intended Sociopath
  • Rory Gallagher & Taste
  • Utopia and the Militant Socialist
  • Matt Damon & the Teachers Union vs. the Capitalist Pigs
  • The Fight of the Century
  • The Last Damned Healthcare Article You'll Ever Need
  • The Gospel According to Mark
  • You Might Be an Idiot if.....
  • How To Interpret Political Speech and other Forms of Gibberish
  • Polygamy and the Search For Morality
  • The "Big" Gulp
  • When a Lie is the Truth and the Truth is a Lie
  • Jim Hall - The Subtle Radical
  • Making Deals With the Devil in Iran
  • Dennis and Mary
  • Thank You Lord For the Good Things You have Done
  • Excersise In Futility
  • Is Obama The Antichrist?
  • The Case for Limited Government (and that includes a limited military)
  • The Weekly Southern Blog
  • Angel: part VI
  • The Esoteric Agenda
  • Ted Bundy & The Hunt For The Devil
  • Things I wish the President Knew Pt. 3
  • Really Now, I'm Syria
  • What Will You Do?
  • Charlie & Clint: Dead & Deader
  • God Loves Me and Has a Plan For My Life...Right?
  • Trayvon & George : An American Hate Story
  • Is God's Grace Ecclesiastical White-out?
  • Jury Duty
  • The Left's Contradictory Love Affair With Gays & Muslims
  • Hee Haw and Grandma and Grandpa
  • Little Tommy & The Blues Kings
  • Gay Marriage: Part II
  • Kayaking "The Big Cypress" with Crocodlies
  • The Birth of The Jazz Guitarist
  • Running With The Bullshit In Pamplona
  • Divided By Abortion
  • Gay Marriage
  • Life on the Fault-line
  • Out of the Wild
  • A Generation Out Of Touch
  • Morning Faith with a Cup of Joe
  • For The Children
  • Made up Facts & True Beliefs
  • The Unforgettable - Nat 'King' Cole
  • Slavery Was Big Business....and It Still Is!
  • Garage Band - The 1960's
  • A Man's Best Friend is his Dogma
  • Voting With Our Private Parts
  • Investors of the World, Unite
  • Good Intentions...bad results
  • The Plural of "You"
  • How to Get God to Give You What You Want: Redux
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Monday, October 18, 2013

It had been a long day for Craig MacDonald. First the full eight hour day of teaching Honors Geography at Sawgrass River High School, followed by another two hours of off-season basketball practice in order to get his school varsity team ready to play in the upcoming Winter season.  Once Craig got home, all he wanted to do was relax.  His first order of business, after turning on the television, was to turn on the computer and check his email.

Among the usual list of spam, newsletters, alerts, advertisements, and forwarded junk was an item that piqued his interest. Its subject line was left blank but it was from someone that called themselves Future@end.of.the.world.net. Wondering if this was just another scam or attempt to elicit money or personal information from him, he clicked on it anyway, interested in the creative return address.  Once the message loaded all he got was a single line with a numbered URL:  2013.139.159.6.  By this time his curiosity was fully aroused and got the better of him.  He clicked on it and when his browser opened and loaded the page, he was presented with a parody of a future newspaper site.  In an unfamiliar but bold, ultramodern, blue script, it was titled Dallas Morning News, and the date was listed as November 12, 2042.

That was interesting enough but the screaming headline at the top of the page that demanded immediate attention read, “Number of Murders Claimed by Full Moon Killer Rises Above 200.”  The text was hyperlinked and Craig clicked on it.  It took him to a well-done but obviously fake future news article also dated November 12, 2042, credited to the AP with a Seattle byline.

‘SEATTLE (AP) - After a nine month investigation, Seattle police and FBI agents have been able to confirm more than 100 killings attributed to the so-called Full Moon Killer, as having been committed by confessed killer Kenneth Daniels, who has claimed to have killed more than 200 in total over the years.’

That first line stopped Craig dead in his tracks. He knew a Kenny Daniels, the boy was a student in his 4th Period AP Geography class.  A chill involuntarily went up and down Craig’s spine and he shook himself to be rid of it.  But intrigued, he read on.

‘Already by far the most prolific serial killer in history, if a total of 200 killings can be attributed to Daniels, he would no doubt establish a record that would most likely never be surpassed.  Based on the confessions of the admitted psychopath, authorities have been able to clear cold cases all over the country dating back up to three decades.

‘Daniels’ 29 year killing spree spanned 28 states from one corner of the nation to the other, beginning in South Florida on October 22, 2013 when he killed his first victim, high school classmate Jenny Meadows, on a night with a full moon.’

“No,” Craig said to himself as he stopped reading again.  He knew a girl at the school named Jenny Meadows.  She was a popular cheerleader and member of the student congress. “That ain’t right,” he said out loud. He began to wonder if the email, this contrived website, and the obviously fictional story of the future were an elaborate hoax on someone’s part.  And what could they gain by his reading of
it?

He thought of Kenny Daniels and pictured the boy’s face in his mind.  He was a very smart but quiet boy who never caused any trouble and for all intents and purposes he acted and looked like a model student.  Craig could hardly see the boy playing the role of the most prolific serial killer in history.  He laughed and shook his head.  Then he read on.

The fictional news story continued, summarizing the career of the Full Moon Killer, who criss-crossed the country for 29 years, always killing on a night with a full moon, which became his calling card. He was never caught until he slipped up once in Washington State in early
2042.  Once in police custody, the 45 year old killer began to confess to FBI agents of more than 200 slayings committed over the years.  At once police all over the US began to clear cold cases that had sat unsolved in various locales throughout the country and had been attributed to a
near-mythical Full Moon Killer.

At the bottom of the page was a Seattle PD mug shot of the killer.  Craig sat stunned into silence for a moment.  On the screen he saw the face of the boy he knew, obviously somehow computer-altered to appear some 30 years older, staring back at the police camera, showing no emotion. 
The placard on a chain around his neck read, ‘Seattle PD, Kenneth Wayne Daniels.’  It was dated 2-13-42 and contained a booking number.

“What a crock,” Craig said again to himself, but clicked on the picture.  It brought up a full-screen, high definition picture for him.  Craig was sure it was a fake, but a very, very good one.  He couldn’t
tell how it had been altered to age the boy so much, but he knew there were programs that could do the job well enough.

Craig stared at the picture for a minute longer and then went back to the original page, the front page of the Dallas Morning News, supposedly from November 12, 2042.  He tried all of the links to the other headlines listed but the only one that worked was the one that took him to the story of the Full Moon Killer.

He shook his head in denial again and went back to the email.  He hit reply and wrote, ‘What is this, a joke?’  Then he hit send, and continued to check the rest of his messages.

Tuesday, October 19,
2013 In fourth period class, Craig studied the boy, Kenny Daniels, while the students worked on a map-making project.  He certainly didn’t look like the killer type. He just quietly did his work and occasionally joked around with his friends sitting nearby, but did not draw any undue attention to himself.  He did not act withdrawn or disturbed like Craig thought a serial killer was supposed to
act.

When the class was over, Craig took his place in the hall outside his classroom as he was supposed to do to monitor the hallway traffic.  As he watched, a group of cheerleaders passed by.

A voice down the hall shouted, “Hey Jenny! You going to the party after the game?”

A pretty blonde girl turned around and shouted back, “Yeah!  You?”

“All night long,” her friend replied.

Craig stared at the girl.  So this was her.  He wondered could it be true, that the boy he knew would kill this girl on Friday night after the football game?  And what could he do about it if it was?  He shook his head and smiled at his own foolishness, for even thinking that the hoax email and website were true.  The next class filed in and soon the tardy bell rang.  He went back inside the classroom and introduced the project to them. But thoughts of the email and the story kept surfacing in his mind, despite his wishes to dispel them.

At basketball practice after school his mind was a million miles away.  He just had the team go
through a three-on-two drill called Stampede, while he watched and thought.

Once he was home again, he apprehensively turned on the computer and let his email messages download.  As he both hoped and feared at the same time, Future had replied to him.  Again, there was no message, just a single, numbered URL like the previous night. Knowing he shouldn’t but also just as much knowing he couldn’t resist, Craig clicked on it and let the page load.

It was another futuristic representation of a newspaper website, this time the Miami Herald from January 26, 2014.  The top headline read, “Missing Girl Found in Everglades.”  Beside the headline and the first few lines of the story was a small picture of Jenny Meadows, which looked as if it had been taken yesterday.  Craig knew that was why he had been directed to the site and clicked on the headline.  It brought him to another fake parody of a future news story, although this one wasn’t so far into the future.

“WESTON – Yesterday while fishing in the Everglades, two men found the body of a
teenage girl floating in a canal off of an isolated hammock deep within the swamp.  The body has been identified as that of high school sophomore Jenny Meadows of Weston, Florida.  Jenny had been missing since October 22, when she didn’t return home from a Friday night high school football game.  Her parents reported her missing the next morning but police had reported no clues in her disappearance until the body was found.

The body was found unclothed and with a belt wrapped tightly around her throat,
preliminarily pointing to strangulation as the cause of death.

Thus far, the Broward County Sherriff’s Office has no suspects in mind, although
the investigation continues, according to spokesmen.”

Craig sat for a moment and thought.  He hit backspace to go back to the original front page of the newspaper site.  As the night before the only link that worked from it was the one to the Jenny Meadows story.  He did study the other headlines and recognized many of the names and situations and concluded that the stories might very well come true in three months.  So, whoever had created this hoax had done their homework and done a very good job.  Somehow, that didn’t make him feel any better.

He minimized the browser and went back to the email message.  He tried to do a reverse search of the email address but was met with no success.  He did a trace on its host domain name, end.of.the.world.net, and that came back with a message stating, “Address Unknown-No Such Network.”

Wednesday,
October 20, 2013

During fourth period Craig studied Kenny.  He still appeared to be a typical, fun-loving high school sophomore.  After school before he went to basketball practice, Craig took a short side trip to the classroom of his friend, Les Ward, the school’s yearbook advisor and broadcasting teacher.  He told Les about the strange emails from a supposedly non-existent email account and the even stranger fake newspaper web pages.  Les was of the pinion that the whole thing was a hoax masterminded by some technologically savvy but very disturbed student and told Craig he needed to report everything to the school resource officer since it involved serial killers and threatened the murder of a school student.  But Craig was not prepared to go that far just yet.  First, he was embarrassed that he had even been picked out for this farce.  And, second, he was worried about what people would think if word got out of his involvement in such a scheme, even if he was the victim.

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As soon as he got home, he checked and sure enough there was a new message from Future, whoever that was.  As before the subject line was empty and the message itself was yet another numbered URL.  Unlike the previous nights, this one did not take him to the front page of a faked future newspaper website but directly to a very scary, haunting, yet very realistic parody of a future news story.  Craig felt a sudden dread tighten his whole chest as he read the headline and despite the heat, a cold chill rolled over his body.  The headline read, ‘Former High School Teacher Executed.’  He read.
‘RAIFORD, FL - Former high school geography teacher and basketball coach Craig MacDonald was executed today after an eleven year wait on Florida’s Death Row for the murder of one of his students fifteen years ago.  MacDonald killed 16-year-old Kenneth Daniels on October 22, 2013 in front of a stunned classroom full of students in Sawgrass River High School in suburban Weston.

 MacDonald claimed at the time and continued to claim until the day of his execution that he had killed Daniels in order to prevent the high school sophomore from committing 200 murders in the future.  He asserted that he had been alerted to the fact that the student would become a serial killer in the future by mysterious emails from unknown sources, a defense that was rejected by a jury after no evidence could be produced by defense attorneys to back up that claim.  Thorough searches and forensics were done on MacDonald’s home, school, and laptop computers but nothing was found to corroborate his assertions.  The jury disregarded his defense and he was sentenced to death after his trial in 2017.

Daniels’ parents were outraged at MacDonald’s allusions to their son, who at the time was an honors student and had no police record or disciplinary record at the school.’

At the bottom of the page was a picture of a man in the orange t-shirt issued to Florida Death Row inmates.  The man’s face was Craig’s own, somehow aged fifteen years by computer trickery.  Craig stared at the picture.  Yes, that was him how he might look some fifteen years later.

'No.  This is too much,’ Craig thought, literally shaking with a mixture of surprise, apprehension, and anger.  He quickly closed the browser and returned to the email.  He hit reply and pounded on the keys as he typed the message.

‘Who are you?  Why are you doing this?  Stop, or I will report you to the police.’

Thursday, October 21, 2013

Craig’s first stop once he arrived on campus was Les Ward’s classroom.  He had to tell someone and Les was the only one he trusted enough to tell just yet.  As Les was preparing for his first period broadcasting class, Craig filled him in on the latest development.

Les stopped and stood still listening when Craig got to the part about the execution.  When Craig had finished, Les thought for a moment and then said, “Man, you’ve got to go to the police now.  They’ve not only threatened the lives of two students but yourself as well.”

The warning bell for first period rang and Les’s students began to enter the room “If there’s anything else on there tonight, I’ll go first thing in the morning,” Craig assured him as Les’s first period students continued to trickle in.

“Let me know what happens,” Les called out to Craig as he headed out of Les’s classroom to his     own.

“I will,” he said over his shoulder.

Craig looked at everyone in the school with suspicion, wondering which of them was responsible for the hoax.  As always, during fourth period Kenny was his innocent self, causing no trouble and no harm to anyone.  Out in the hallway between classes, Craig again saw Jenny Meadows, spry and happy, enjoying life with her cheerleader friends.

Since it was volleyball season, off-season basketball had to practice on the outdoor courts that afternoon.  Craig had his team stretch and run through their warm-up drills.  He stared across the basketball court to the football field where the football team was also going through light drills the day before a game.  He thought of the game the following night, and what might or might not happen afterwards, and the three lives that hung in the balance.

“Coach.  Coach.”

He was startled out of his reverie and turned to find his basketball team standing on the court behind him.  He looked as if he was wondering why they were there.

“You all right, coach?” one of the players said.

He looked at the player blankly.

In the uncomfortable silence another player asked, “We finished our layup drills, what do you want us to do next?”

Craig shook his head and remembered where he was and why he was there.  Decisively he said, “Big men practice block out drills, guards practice outlet passes.”

Now that their coach had returned to normal, the players smiled and relaxed before they went to get balls from the rack to do as they were instructed.

Once back home Craig checked and found, just as he knew he would, another message from Future with no subject and only a numbered URL.  Not knowing what to expect but prepared for the worst, he sat back and clicked on the number.  Once the page loaded, he immediately sat forward to get a closer look at the monitor screen.

It was a very well-fashioned site entitled ‘Tribute to the Full Moon Killer’s Victims.’  Dominating the top of the first page was the same picture of Jenny Meadows he had seen on the earlier newspaper story parody about the discovery of her body, except it was high-definition and covered nearly the entire width of the page.  It had to have been her school picture from this year.  She was smiling and the braces on her teeth were clearly visible.  Craig scrolled down the page and below Jenny’s picture was a scan of the same Miami Herald story he had already read two nights before.  Below the story were three very prominent buttons, one labeled Previous, one labeled Next, and one labeled Home.  He clicked on Next.

A color picture of another young woman took up the screen on that page.  Below it was the story of another unsolved murder, this time in St. Lucie County, Florida, some three months later.  Craig hit Next again and this time it was a much older woman, a grandmother in the small town of Dundee in Polk County.

Craig clicked through the pages and watched as 29 years of time seemed compressed into only a few minutes as the story progressed.  He watched the dates, places, and victims change and the murderer slowly recognized as the Full Moon Killer by the media for only striking on nights when there was a full moon.  His victims ranged from a 96 year old widow in Maine to a seven year old girl in Arizona.

Craig watched the killer move upward from Florida through Georgia into South Carolina, and on up to New York.  Then he struck in the Midwest and worked his way back down to Alabama and then westward to Texas and Oklahoma.  From there he went to California and preyed on women there for a long time before skipping back to the East Coast.

The killer seemed to be a ghost, he left no clues and no witnesses and the police seemed powerless to catch him much less stop him.  People began to be afraid to go out at night when the moon was full and police all over the country increased patrols and doubled the number of officers on the streets on the nights around a full moon.  None of the measures seemed to work, the killer appeared to be smarter than the police and able to outfox them at every turn.  The killer didn’t kill during every full moon phase and sometimes went months at a time between killings before going on sprees where he took one life for several full moons in a row, all the time aggravating and frustrating the police and the FBI.  At one point, under growing pressure, the US president even appointed a task force to find the Full Moon Killer and bring him to justice.

The last page was the story of how a single US Marshal alone had finally tracked down and caught up with the killer as he attempted to murder a nine year old girl in a Seattle suburb.  The marshal had tracked him through a piece of jewelry he had stolen from one of his victims and had pawned to support his endeavors.  DNA testing revealed the killer to be one Kenneth Wayne Daniels from Weston, Florida, who had disappeared from home as a 16 year old twenty nine years earlier, had never been seen or heard from again, and had been presumed dead.


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When Craig hit Next again it took him back to the beginning with the Jenny Meadows story.  With only one button left to try, Craig clicked on Home.  That brought him to a page with a white background and blue bold faced letters on top screaming out, ‘IT IS UP To You'


Below the words the screen was split between two newspaper stories.  On the left was the original story he had been directed to by the emails, that of the Full Moon Killer’s confession of over 200 murders.  On the right side was the story of Craig’s own execution.

 Craig sat still for some time, stunned.  He couldn’t help the feeling that someone was grooming him to kill a student for some unknown reason.  On the other hand, all of the pictures and the stories seemed so real, too real, in fact, and too well organized for someone to have concocted them up so neatly and tied everything together into such a nice, neat package.  What if it was true?  What if this was what the future could look like unless he did something, something he definitely did not want to do but maybe had to do.  He thought what if someone had future knowledge of the Boston Strangler or the Son of Sam or the Hillside Strangler or the Yorkshire Ripper and had the power to prevent all the murders.

He slowly and calmly got up from the computer and went to the large closet in the master bedroom.  In the back of it was a gun safe.  He stared at the safe for a short time before he opened it.  Inside it he kept a 20ga shotgun, a .30-06 hunting rifle, and two handguns.  He picked up the Beretta 9mm from the top shelf and held it in his hand.  He popped out the magazine to make sure it was loaded and pushed it back in again.  Two hundred lives for one, he thought.  It seemed a fair trade to him.  He closed the door to the gun safe and went to put the Beretta in his briefcase.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Having made up his mind and with the future set, Craig felt good as he went to school but as the day dragged on he began to have doubts.  As second thoughts flooded his mind, he began to dread the coming of fourth period when he would have to face Kenny Daniels, innocent student and future serial killer.  He was about to chicken out at the end of 3rd period when he saw an unsuspecting Jenny Meadows walk by.  He stared at her in passing.  She saw him and smiled.  When he saw her braces, the same braces he had seen in the picture that accompanied the story of her murder, he made up his mind.

 Just as Jenny had passed from sight, Kenny Daniels appeared at the door to the classroom.  As he walked in he said, “What’s up, Mr. MacDonald,” and continued on into the room.

 Craig’s will threatened to shatter and he said nothing.  Something in the back of his mind screamed, ‘What if it’s all an elaborate hoax?’  Another part, the part that remembered the 200 smiling faces, retorted, ‘What if it isn’t?’

The tardy bell rang and Craig nervously stepped inside.  Despite the air conditioning he found himself sweating and shaking.  The class chatted quietly as he walked to the table at the front of the room next to his desk where he had placed his briefcase.  He opened up the briefcase and there the 9mm sat in the bottom, gleaming in the overhead lights of the classroom.  He closed the briefcase and began to teach class.

He got more and more nervous as the class progressed and last second doubts flew up to haunt him.  At ten minutes to the end of class he chickened out.  He stopped teaching to let the class begin their homework early.  At five minutes until class was over there was a knock on the door.  One of the students near it opened it and Jenny Meadows walked in with a piece of paper in her hand.  She walked up to Craig where he sat behind his desk and handed the paper to him.

It was a note folded over and stapled together.  Already spooked by the unexpected reappearance of Jenny Meadows, he nervously opened the paper.  On it was a computer printed note.  All it said was, ‘What will you do?’

Craig looked up at Jenny, who still stood beside his desk as if she expected an answer.  “Th-Thanks,” he managed to stammer.

“You’re welcome,” Jenny said and smiled, revealing her braces.  She turned and walked out of the room.

His shirt nearly covered in sweat, Craig looked at the clock on the wall.  Three minutes until the bell rang to dismiss class.  Time to decide.

He stood up and walked to the briefcase, still left closed on top of the table.  He opened the briefcase and looked at the gun.  He looked back at the clock.  Two minutes.  He looked back down at the gun and licked his lips, then at the note he noticed he still had in his hand.  ‘What will you do?’ it asked.  Back to the clock.  One minute.

He reached into the briefcase and grasped the gun.

“Mr. MacDonald!” one of the girls in the class shrieked as she saw the gun.

“Coach!” one of his basketball players gasped.  “What are you doing?”

“Is that thing real?” asked another student in disbelief.

Craig ignored them as if they didn’t exist and made his way between desks to where Kenny Daniels sat in the back of the room.  He was caught in the middle of putting his things away in his backpack and had a look of dumbfounded horror on his face as the teacher with the crazed look and the gun in his hand advanced on him.

Students bailed out of desks all around as Craig calmly stalked his prey in the back of the room in silence.  Those students nearest the door ran out of it screaming about a gun as the dismissal bell rang.  Those students caught between Craig and the door, crowded up against the back wall.  Once they were sure Craig’s attention was focused on Kenny, they parted away from him like Moses and the Red Sea.  To Craig, they didn’t exist.

Kenny plastered himself against the back wall in shock, his mouth opening and closing but no words coming out.  Craig pressed the muzzle of the gun against the boy’s trembling chest.  Kenny’s eyes were wide with fright and sweat broke out on his forehead and lip.  He breathed in and out heavily, gulping air.

“Why?” he croaked as he looked into Craig’s eyes, the pressure of the gun barrel boring into his chest.

“For all the murders you won’t commit,” Craig said like an emotionless robot.

“What?  What?” Kenny whispered, pleading evident in his eyes and voice.  “I haven’t committed any murders!”

“You will.  Or you would have,” Craig said calmly with confident assurance.

“Craig!” Deputy Hess, the school resource officer, shouted as he pushed his way between the brave or foolhardy students who had gathered at the door to see what would happen.  Hess advanced into the room with both hands on his own drawn weapon, aimed steadily at the teacher.  Craig turned to look at him but kept the gun pressed against Kenny’s chest.

“Put the gun down, Craig,” Hess gently ordered Craig as if he were speaking to a small child.

Craig looked at the deputy as if he didn’t know who he was or why he was there, although they had been friends for as long as Craig had worked at the school.  Dismissing the deputy and his gun as of no consequence, Craig turned his attention back to Kenny.

“Please,” Kenny begged, tears streaming down his face.  “Don’t,” he whispered.

“Don’t do it, Craig!” Hess shouted across the room to distract Craig from what he intended to do.  He was carefully moving to be in a position to gun down the teacher without endangering the student.

Craig looked back at Hess, and for a moment recognition seemed to dawn on his face, at least in his eyes.  “I’m sorry,” he said softly over his shoulder to the deputy.

Then he looked back down at Kenny.  He moved the gun up to the boy’s heart.  “I’m sorry,” he whispered.

Kenny began to sob, “No, no, no.”

“Craig!” Hess screamed at the same time that Craig pulled the trigger.  In rapid succession he pulled the trigger five times, before fire from Hess’s gun put him down.  Kenny’s bullet-wracked body slid down the wall, leaving a trail of blood on the brick tiles.  Craig landed on top of him.   Craig stared into the dying boy’s eyes.

“Why?” Kenny whispered again as his eyes glazed over.

Craig rolled off the boy and looked over at the classroom door.  There among the students stood Jenny Meadows, with a look of total and complete horror on her face.  ‘Now you get to live,’ Craig thought as he smiled at her.  ‘Make it a good life.’  As his own life began to ebb from him, Craig thought of 200 more faces that would now get to live, now that he had completed his task.  His eyes refocused and he saw Hess standing over him with his gun still drawn and pointed at him.  Then Craig remembered something else.

“Future didn’t get everything right,” he whispered as much to himself as to the deputy. 

“What?” Hess asked, confused at the deranged killer’s last, incoherent statement.

The deputy alertly saw Craig weakly raise the gun and straightened his arms for a clean shot at the wounded teacher.  Then too late he saw where the gun barrel was headed. 

Craig put the gun to his temple.  “I’m not going to the executioner.”

Hess let go of his gun with his weak hand and tried in vain to reach Craig’s gun and knock it out of Craig’s hand before the teacher pulled the trigger one last time.

“Craig, no!” Hess shouted, but he was too late.


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Miami Herald, Saturday, October 23, 2013

High School Teacher Kills Student, Then Self

WESTON – For unknown reasons, at the end of class yesterday, high school geography teacher and basketball coach Craig MacDonald of Sawgrass River High School pulled a gun from his briefcase and shot to death one of his students, 16 year old Kenny Daniels.  MacDonald was then shot several times by school resource officer Charles Hess before he turned the gun on himself and committed suicide in front of the deputy and several stunned students.  

With no apparent motive, investigators questioned several students and staff members.  MacDonald and Daniels apparently 
got along well.  Neither teacher nor student had any prior history of problems at the school.

Most reacted with disbelief, although a few mentioned that MacDonald had not seemed quite himself for the last couple of days.  Broadcasting teacher Les Ward reported that MacDonald had told him he had been receiving mysterious e-mails allegedly claiming Daniels would become a serial killer in the future and that was why MacDonald had done what he did.  As of this time those reports are unconfirmed.  Police removed computers from both MacDonald’s home and classroom.

Daniels’ parents reacted with outrage to the reports but no other explanation was forthcoming as to why a popular, veteran teacher would do such an out of character and senseless thing.  Principal Dwight Guerrero reported that MacDonald was an exemplary teacher and coach and was horribly confused as to why he would commit such an irrational act.  Funeral services for both Daniels and MacDonald are pending and grief counselors from the district are scheduled to be at the school in force on Monday.



Jeff Vanderslice


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