No “best of” list here. No looking back.
The intelligent among us (you dear reader, myself included), look back often enough throughout the year to preclude the need for a special end of the year analysis. We reflect endlessly, and not in selfish isolation. Whether it be at lunches, dinners out, conferences, or family gatherings, at …
Each night father fills me with dread
As he sits at the foot of my bed
I don’t mind that he speaks
In gibbers and squeaks
But for seventeen years he’s been dead.
From The Listing Attic, Edward Gorey. Circa 1954.
For some gory Gorey, see my Compulsions.
Happy Halloween.
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Keep your girl children out of outfits that sexualize, and keep yourself out of outfits that …
here I sit
suspended
on the edge
of “normal“
the darkness inside
disguised
with an obligatory smile.
—
to redistribute wealth
or
not to redistribute wealth
that is the question
the people
or
the corporation
middle class
or
Plutocracy
Bomb Bomb Iran
or
This Land is Your Land
—
America 2008
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Photo of the Day / Michael Crowley — The Stump / The New Republic
Peace
Much has already been said, so my opinion will be checked for now, except to say the title of the article below says it all pretty clearly, and almost correctly. A more accurate title may have been Blue-Collar, male Voters with a tendency toward subconscious racism, but too much truth does not for a good …
