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This website is a shotgun marriage between an archive of political and cultural commentary by the essayist and flaneur, Baron Von Compos Mentis, and the short fiction of author Ken O’Steen.

‘Prattlegate’
‘A Few Quirks of Surrender’
‘Godsent Vermin’
‘The Invisibility of Wealth’
‘Fierce Bombardier of the Vast Imperial Skies’
‘The Thing That Ate Cars and Avatars’
‘Dialogue in a Dead Zone’
‘The Projectionist’
‘Sweeper of the Blue Star’
‘The Rains of Abracadabra’
“Shelter”
“Pills vs. Decapitation”
‘The Failure Ward’
‘Notes for the Living and the Dead’
‘Movie Life’
“The Organization”
“Le Freak”
“Hugh Grant”
“The Mission of Rouses Point”
“The Plot Speaks”
“The Authoritarians”
“Axis of Inscrutable Behavior”
“Repose”
“Fahrenheit S-E-X”
Schopenhauer’s Morphine
“Ground Control to Major Tom”

‘The Invisibility of Wealth’

The Invisibility of Wealth

by K. O’ Steen | Oct 26, 2016 | Fiction

Ken O’Steen

Ken O’Steen’s short stories have appeared in Cleaver Magazine, Fjords Review, Eclectica, The Westchester Review, Litro, Switchback, ELM, Crack the Spine, Halfway Down the Stairs, Pif Magazine, Blue Lake Review, Whistling Shade, Fiction Week Literary Review, Literary Juice, Connotation Press, Flash Fiction Magazine, Litbreak, Sleet, Quail Bell Magazine, Riggwelter, The Wolfian, New Pop Lit, The Rumen, Santa Barbara Literary Journal, Crab Apple, and Saltfront. “Dinner at Musso and Frank,” appeared in the anthology, “The Muse in the Bottle: Great Writers on the Joys of Drinking,” published by Citadel. The novel “Peeko Pacifiko” was published in 2011. The author is from Los Angeles, and currently lives in Vermont.

Baron Von Compos Mentis

Baron Von Compos Mentis is an American essayist and traveler, a graduate of the Sorbonne, who retains dual citizen in Belgium and the United States. His pieces have appeared in various online spaces since 2008, though no pieces have appeared under his name for several years. For a period of time in the 1990s, along with his then wife, the vintner Clarissa Osterhaus, he assisted in the management of a family vineyard in Saint Estomac, France. He is believed to reside currently in San Francisco, California, and Jackman, Maine.

The Baron Von Compos Mentis Archive

Will Majority Rule Return to America, or is it too Late?
The Republican Base: America’s Original Snowflakes and Hothouse Flowers of Ultra-Sensitivity
Ah, America: Go Bullish on Pessimism
A Majority Starving for Justice in the Time of Trump and Republican Hegemony
The Sun Also Rises in the West: How the Liberal Elite Conned Americans Into Believing the Sun Rises in the East
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice”- Bonhoeffer and Bernanos More Relevant Now Than Ever
Shut Up Pundits: American Political Division Is Well Past the Reaching Across the Divide Stage
Humans Can’t Help Themselves, And Another Age of Darkness Descends
The Senate, The Electoral College and Gerrymandering Saddle Us With Minority Rule
Well Blow Me, Herr Donald Won
If War Is the Continuation of Politics by Other Means, the American Right Has Been There for Twenty Years
Never Go Full Primeval: The Trump-Brexit Tribalism Has A Long History of Misery
Trump: The Logical Progression in Republican Radicalization…If Only the Press and Very Serious People Had Noticed
How Trump Would Reduce America to a 97 Pound Weakling
Our Country is Insane, And Bleeding Out
Trump Discovers Fascism is Often Popular
Welcome in the Syrian Refugees, Ship Out the Chickenshit Republican Dickheads
Republicans vs. Terrorism Is A Lopsided Win for Terrorism
Several Choice Lies From Uber Republican The Donald, His Party’s Most Thrilling Liar, Roasted, Garnished and Served
The Donald, The Great Man Theory of History, And Republican Voters’ Fantasy: The Strongman Who Will Stop the Future
Press Blankets Nation With Hillary Non-scandal & Smut from the Mouth of Trump, Pleasing Press, Imbeciles & Republican Creeps Alike
Impeach Chuck Todd: Conservatism and Media’s Long Night of the Long Knives
Filmic LSD or Pure Cinema
The Republican Good Life Awaits You, My Children
Planned Parenthood Foes Should Know That Anti-Choice Laws Are State Imposed Religious Belief, And A Violation of the First Amendment
Slaughterville: The Right’s Happiest Place on Earth
Stefan Zweig, Grand Budapest Hotel, And The Writing on the Wall
Shitheads In Paradise: The Moneyed Owe the 47% Everything
America the Beautiful: Ted Cruz Reaffirms Any Idiot Still Can Run for President
2014: Obama Succeeds, But Otherwise, The United States Is Sad And Boring
The Ten Sort Of Commandments For Wingnuts, With Extra Sauce
Glengarry Glen Cruz: Let Me Tell You A Little Something About Republicans
Idealism is Ruining America
Beware The Pumpkinheads, Kids
Fortress Republican Brain Keeps America Safe From Americans
Thomas Bernhard Is Still A Fun Guy
Everybody, And God Himself Wants To Kill Me I Guess
Blackshirts Come In Red, White And Blue
Ginger & Eno: Two Fine Docs
Chase Republicans With Baseball Bats, Or Give It Up
Germany’s Horror For Germans, In German Films
Obama, Decimator Of America, And Distant Lands, Or Not
How I Save Republicans From The Chore Of Their Cynicism and The Labors of Their Dissimulation
Appreciating the Ancients: Susskind & Cavett & Buckley
Zombie-Fucker Dick Cheney And His Zombie-Fucker Family Rule All Of Hell
The Political Question of the Day Is: How Much Would You Mind Being Dead?
John Boehner, Rick Perry, John McCain & Republicans Everywhere Say Very Silly Things Almost All The Time, As The Press Listens Closely
Paul Bowles’ Spellbinding And Inspiring Dissoluteness
Hey Stupid, You Don’t Have A Constitutional Right To Own a Gun (The NRA & Pro-Murder Club Put Several More Notches In Their Belt In Isla Vista)
80 Bad Years: Conservatives’ Exemplary Record Of Being Wrong About Everything

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“Fahrenheit S-E-X”
“Ground Control to Major Tom”
“Hugh Grant”
“Le Freak”
“Pills vs. Decapitation”
“Repose”
“Schopenhauer’s Morphine”
“Shelter”
“The Mission of Rouses Point”
“The Organization”
“The Plot Speaks”
‘A Few Quirks of Surrender’
‘Dialogue in a Dead Zone’
‘Fierce Bombardier of the Vast Imperial Skies’
‘Godsent Vermin’
‘Movie Life’
‘Notes for the Living and the Dead’
‘Prattlegate’ by Ken O’Steen
‘Sweeper of the Blue Star’
‘The Failure Ward’
‘The Invisibility of Wealth’
‘The Projectionist’
‘The Rains of Abracadabra’
‘The Thing That Ate Cars and Avatars’
About Me
Axis of Inscrutable Behavior
Short Story: “A Few Quirks of Surrender”
The Authoritarians
Thoughts on Essential Cinema and Sparkly Recommendations by Baron Von Compos Mentis Archive
Crime and Immigration: The Facts

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