Tag: Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit

There is Nothing Queer About Liberalism

By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “The ‘Enlightenment’, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.” -Michel Foucault I’ve been called some pretty heinous things in my life, and I’ll proudly own most of them with a smile, but every time I get called […]

Sympathy for the Shia Militias

By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Quick hypothetical: Let’s say that you are a member of a disenfranchised global minority, and some pompous foreign superpower is building bases all over your ancestral homeland, a homeland which they have spent decades bombing to smithereens. Then […]

Adulthood is a Racket

By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Being a self-unemployed, thirtysomething, literary visionary can be a depressingly thankless existence. The pay sucks, the publishers are clueless, the editors are dicks and the endless barrage of finger-wagging rhetorical questions from the sanctimonious adults in the boomer […]

Ukraine is a Land Lynched by Borders

By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “From these unfolding vistas of human misery and from personal misery, man must forge convictions, call other men his brothers, and fight for freedom. Man is only free if he is prepared to kill every hangman and every […]