Back below Zero
Yesterday morning the temperature was 35 below 0 (F), though the sun was shining; this morning it’s above zero, just barely, with a fine snow falling. It’s not going to get much warmer today than it already is, which is 4 degrees. Tomorrow night, according to the forecast, it’s going to go way down again, [...]
Accents
The right-wing noise machine is working itself into a frenzy today because Hillary Clinton lapsed into a southern accent when quoting a hymn written in a non-standard & old -fashioned dialect. Drudge & the rest of the asshats on the right managed enough adrenal sophistry to float this meme into the mainstream news cycle. Never [...]
Not a Problem until Now
Right-wing patsy & American Enterprise Insitute “scholar” Norman Ornstein never, as far as I know, expressed any worries about the presidential succession over the last 12 years while the Speaker of the House was a Republican. But now he’s all worried about the unconstitutionality of it all. Now, that is, that a Democrat & a [...]
Flarf Spam
This showed up in the list of comments awaiting moderation on this humble blog. Quite a marvelous little found poem, I think. Far better than the dreary lists of URLs for fake pharmaceuticals & fake sex. I think Dr. Williams might have scribled something like this down on his perscription pad had he been living [...]
Polygamy
Mitt Romney is a Mormon. Looks like he’s considering taking a second wife. Here’s the background. And I don’t know about you, but the way they are all showing their teeth makes me very nervous. Those are not smiles.
Ivory Towers
I subscribe to an international email discussion list about poetry. Tonight someone used the phrase “ivory tower” to designate the place that university teachers supposedly inhabit. I replied as follows:
You know, the cliché “Ivory Tower” always pisses me off. I suppose there are such places, but I’ve been a university teacher for going on [...]
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