ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles White smoke can mean a lot of things… (UPDATE: As more news reports come in, it turns out our new pope, Francis, is a spartan
- Russia Looks To Curry Favor with US Over Edward Snowden BLAKE TARENWALD JR (Blake is DDA’s first intern. He will be covering politics and news for DDA. Please respect his opinions, and be gentle with him as he earns his chops....
- Trump’s Anti-Cruz Supporters Put Wind In My Sails Now that the deluge of Trumpsters has subsided, I feel it safe to jot down the historical, significant increase in traffic that happened to DDA within the past week. It had...
- More Mohammeds Than Americans Can Handle: Baby Names Menacing Western Society The mental unrest was almost palpable after a report from the Washington Examiner detailed the following frightening information: The number of U.S. newborns named “Mohammed” has jumped 100-fold since 1964, one...
- Starbucks Speeding Up Time, Rushing Us Toward the Apocalypse? ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Escondido, CA Nobody’s saying Starbucks is working to bring the Antichrist into physical existence, which is what you might have garnered from the title, with that hideous...
- The TSA Wants to Know What’s On Your Hands ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE If it wasn’t for having to set up the Dear Dirty America Reality Tour in North Dakota by late July, I wouldn’t have been in the airport. But...
Who’s running this goddamn stunted reality! It almost seems more dangerous than helpful. Daylight saving time. Multiple people told me today they were “feeling” the lost hour. It was dragging them
ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles A slice a day keeps death away…I hadn’t seen Johnny in over a year. One of the last times, he’d played on a battered guitar
ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles In 1908 a man named Josef Veram discovered a statuette of a what seemed to be a female with enormous breasts, a pregnant belly, and
ERIC CHAET photo by Procsilas Moscas Louis has written all the numbers out 1, 2, 3…, all the way to 1600
ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles There is no man more economical than the one who’s just finished up on the
JOHN BENNETT photo by Pete Souza (re-posted from John Bennett’s email Shards list)I watched the movie Machuca last night on DVD over
ERIC CHAET photo by Christian Gidlöf What a relief always to know what you’re trying to accomplish—whereas I have only a
ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles The man appeared in front of me. He blocked the sun that had been shining


