November 2011
2 posts
Bishops Renew Fight on Abortion and Gay Marriage -... →
Here it is again folks: my religious liberty consists in controlling your behavior. Gotta wonder if anybody besides the bishops is actually buying this self-righteous sanctimony.
Thoughts on Europe's totally obscure death spa.
I’ve been spending way too much time on compiling a family tree, because it’s an endlessly fascinating exercise, at least when you have a family as complex and weird as mine. Right now I’m discussing with one of my 32nd great-grandmothers, namely Conchenn Ingen Cellaig Cualain de Leinster, no doubt a delightful Irish lass and I wish I could spell her name in Irish, about the odd...
May 2011
5 posts
“Great Poems
Admit It and Change Everything
by Rumi Define and narrow me, you...”
– Admit It and Change Everything, by Rumi
“Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a...”
– Do not stand at my grave and weep - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Three Stooges →
Paulson, Geithner, Bernanke
Near misses by Laura Kasischke
The truck that swerved to miss the stroller in which I slept.
My mother turning from the laundry basket just in time to see me open the third-story window to call to the cat.
In the car, on ice, something spinning and made of history snatched me back from the guardrail and set me down between two gentle trees. And that time I thought to look both ways on the one-way street.
And when the...
“Dear Tiara
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
I dreamed I was a mannequin in the...”
April 2011
6 posts
In a Beautiful Country by Kevin Prufer
A good way to fall in love
is to turn off the headlights
and drive very fast down dark roads.
Another way to fall in love
is to say they are only mints
and swallow them with a strong drink.
Then it is autumn in the body.
Your hands are cold.
Then it is winter and we are still at war.
The gold-haired girl is singing into your ear
about how we live in a beautiful country.
Snow sifts from the...
“Dark Matter
by Jack Myers
I’ve lived my life as if I were my...”
“Try this—close / your eyes. No, wait, when—if—we see each other / again the...”
– forgetting something
by Nick Flynn
6:59 AM - Riley Dog →
Remember this.
Scarecrow on Fire by Dean Young
Everything is brushed away, off the sleeve,
off the overcoat, huge ensembles of assertions
just jars of buttons spilled, recurring
nightmare of straw on fire, you the scarecrow,
the scare, the crow, totems gone, rubies
flawed, flamingo in hyena’s jaws, noble
and lascivious mouth of the gods hovering
then gone, gone the glances, gone moths,
cities of crystal become cities of mud,
centurion...
Fix Congress
Subject: Congressional Reform Act of 2011
The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971…before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc.
Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land…all because...
March 2011
9 posts
The News from M— by Lytton Smith
Here, where you all are,
language is an accessory
to bodies lying in the street,
prone in government rooms,
bloated in the waterways.
Or language is an accessory
to the refutation of bodies
lying etc. This too will pass
as search vessels in the delta
pass for smuggling operations
bringing illicit food to refugees
being autocued for media
appearances. What commerce
would you with us...
The Moment by Marie Howe
Oh, the coming-out-of-nowhere moment
when, nothing
happens
no what-have-I-to-do-today-list
maybe half a moment
the rush of traffic stops.
The whir of I should be, I should be, I should be
slows to silence,
the white cotton curtains hanging still.
—Pure Zen, that.
Sutra by Marilyn Krysl
Looking back now, I see
I was dispassionate too often,
dismissing the robin as common,
and now can’t remember what
robin song sounds like. I hoarded
my days, as though to keep them
safe from depletion, and meantime
I kept busy being lonely. This
took up the bulk of my time,
and I did not speak to strangers
because they might be boring,
and there were those I feared
would ask me for money....
“in the ruins
by Mark Conway”
– we drank in the remains
of ruined buildings
and we sat in a cave or
wrecked houses on farms given back to the bank
listening to men who’d been raised
in ways that were lost
and we strained to make out
the use of their news
they were crazy or passed out
speed notched with a cross
they drank...
Proposed new "Survivor" show:
Three businessmen and three businesswomen will be dropped into an elementary school classroom for one school year. Each business person will be provided with a copy of his/her school district’s curriculum and a class of 20 to 25 students.
Each class will have a minimum of five learning-disabled children, three with A.D.H.D., one gifted child, and two who speak limited English. Three...
Untitled, by Jennifer Derow
[The more I go, the harder it becomes to return]
by Jennifer Denrow
The more I go, the harder it becomes to return. To anywhere. There is no one at the ocean this morning. I walked by the campsites and smelled eggs and pancakes. And there were sweet Oregon cherries and watermelon. I wonder if I can go back—what purpose there would be in it—or in any other thing? There’s something expensive...
January 2011
1 post
Nation & World | Mexico's lone gun shop can't... →
Ah, the magic of prohibition! We supply illegal guns to Mexico and they use them to feed our illegal jones on whatever’s going around. So here’s a laughably impractical thought: make it legal, treat the addicts, add millions in tax dollars, and maybe there’ll be a few hardworking Mexicans alive to take the jobs we’re too proud and lazy to do. Hey; maybe they can even get...
December 2010
10 posts
A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning -... →
Change nothing! Sweet, sweet suicide.
later with the sphynx →
Asperger’s life
Iran second only to China for executions -... →
Curses! Foiled again!
“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.” Dorothy Parker”
– Showing all quotes that contain ‘dorothy parker’.
WatchGot art?
November 2010
10 posts
“PUT THE PALESTINIANS ON A DIET” - MEDIA BURY... →
No ethnic cleansing over here. G-d forbid!
The Vietnam Syndrome - TutzTutz.com →
The Glory of War.
“Myth: The U.S. has the best health care system in the world. Fact: The U.S. has...”
– The U.S. has the best health care system in the world
Change my healthcare system!? Over my prematurely dead body! (by 6 years).
stark. raving. mad. mommy.: Asperger's High: Video... →
Terrific video on Asperger’s life. Nails it.
Underwater Sculpture about artworks →
Finally! Somebody doing art on the web that’s actually moving, as opposed to the cotton candy crap that clogs our browsers. Art interacts with life in an absolutely unique way here.
ZombieWarning.com - Free Zombie Attack Warning... →
What? We don’t have enough tsuris with al-Qaeda?
Rolling Stone : Columbine: Whose Fault Is It? →
Marylin Manson with some bracingly outrages reflections on a desperately sick culture. Read it and weep. Or not.
Cigarette Pack Holder, 1955 - 30 Dumb Inventions -... →
At last! Hurry-up Cancer AND you get to stink extra-foul while it comes on!
Nujood Ali: Married at 9; Divorced at 10 - Marie... →
Fundamentalism. Gotta love it.
October 2010
4 posts
The Hokumburg Goombah →
You gotta check this guy(?) out. Do. It. Now. He’s the most cynicval observer around.
The Tea Party movement: deluded and inspired by... →
Yet again: conservative seduction to political suicide.
““I don’t think we came from monkeys. I think that’s...”
– Natural Selection and Macroevolution in your lifetime : Starts With A Bang
Mark Hyman, MD: Science for Sale: Protect Yourself... →
“Greed is Good;” remember that one?
September 2010
18 posts
Health Insurers in Certain States Won’t Issue... →
The headline alone’s enough to demonstrate the sheer stupidity of converting a matter of compassion into a profit-making industry. Reagan, haven’t you done enough harm yet?
Buddhist Channel | Buddhism News, Headlines |... →
Buddhism’s sins. At least nobody seems to have molested kids.
Short of Repeal, G.O.P. Will Chip at Health Law -... →
Aw come on, guys! You can do worse than this!