Salt City Sinner

  As 2021 slides gently into oblivion like a moonlit funeral barge on a wine-dark sea, let’s reflect! 2021 was a complicated year for me but even in the midst of the madness, books were – as they always are – a tremendous comfort. Let’s have a fond look back at the cream of the crop; the five best books I read this year!

 As 2021 crashes and caterwauls its course to a conclusion, I am obligated as a blogger (blogligated, if you will) to reflect on the year in review. I spent more time than usual in the hospital over the last 12 months, and as a result I had a chance to do even more reading than normal! Regrettably, not every book I dragged myself through was a winner.

  Perhaps you were lucky enough to grow up without a religious background. Perhaps your guardians were either hardened, borscht-swilling atheist Marxists or the type of enlightened freethinkers one might find at a local Universalist Unitarian meeting – you know, the type who let their children name themselves and pick their own spiritual path. Perhaps you did grow up with a hand-me-down religion, but perhaps it was Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or any other religion available in this great big world.

  ( Author’s note: once one has spent enough time studying conspiracy theories, it’s inevitable that one feels the urge to conceive of a crazy-ass conspiracy theory of one’s own – just ask Robert Anton Wilson ! This is one such attempt.) The dread, black-clad soldiers of Antifa are known for their anarcho-communist claptrap as much as for beating up helpless old ladies, helpless old men, and (in general) helpless supporters of heroic underdog and TRUE President of the United States Donald J. Trump.