Archive - jeremy norton

Don't get conned--there is no just cause for a pardon of D. Chauvin

opinion piece from the MN Star Tribune.

May 20 •

Between the vampires and the drug pushers: masculinity & self

Look, I know I have a resting bitch face that can read ‘axe-murderer’ or ‘radiantly angry asshole’—and when I smile too hard, it can seem like I’m…

May 3 •

April 2025

It's systemic; it's individual; it's endemic

End result is the same: innocents wounded and accountability dodged

Apr 11 •

The Dismal Swamp

Brief reflections on the gobsmacking con

Apr 5 •

March 2025

There is no comportment prize at a coup.

I wear pink often, or more than occasionally.

Mar 10 •

February 2025

excerpt from: THINNEST of MARGINS

Trauma Sponges, chapter 14

Feb 9 •

January 2025

Public Service Announcement: Witness & Testify

Chapter 15 from Trauma Sponges, excerpted/condensed.

Jan 19 •

December 2024

~What We Consider Murder (& why)~

I have long been enraged by the term, concept, and defense ‘Crime of Passion,’ as well as its same-sex corollary, ‘Gay Panic.’ Both simultaneously…

Dec 19, 2024 •

November 2024

A Hashtag Brings No One Back (chapter 16, Trauma Sponges)

How much, and how damn little, have we learned and changed since May 25, 2020?

Nov 30, 2024 •

Past is, as ever, prologue

From 2017: Is there any more empty, shallow, insincere, ignorant, asinine counter-chant than 'White Lives Matter'?

Nov 11, 2024 •

Same dirtbag; slightly different prolix rants

I’ve been encouraged and directed, by folks smarter, more-skilled, and savvier than I, to use this space to share more writing.

Nov 6, 2024 •

October 2024

(a chapter from TRAUMA SPONGES)

Oct 3, 2024 •

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