Why?
Why isn’t the media wetting itself wondering who McCain’s VP will be? Obama’s VP choice had them in a sweat for days. How come they aren’t camped outside Joe Lieberman’s & Mitt Romney’s houses? I am praying that McCain will exhibit stupidity “of biblical proportions” & choose one of these two goobers.
It Was Only a Joke
That’s what the radical right always says when somebody actually calls them out. Classic bully behavior. But in any case, how fucking delusional can you be? These people have a pretty exalted view of their place in the world & their relationship to the divine; but then I knew that, I grew up with the [...]
The Facts about John McCain
Kathy G. produces the facts, with sources, about John McCain’s life. It is ironic, but not at all surpriosing, that the utterly phoney McCain has to attack the authenticity of a person who has actually had to work for a living.
Dogwood
When I look raise my eyes above my computer monitor & look out the window of my study I can see the branches of a dogwood tree with upright clusters of dark blue berries. (This is the tree the warbler I mentioned a couple of days ago has been hanging out.) When the a shaft [...]
Two Bad Wars
Going to war in Iraq was such an obviously bad choice I’m still amazed that some otherwise rational people supported it. The choice to go to war in Afghanistan was — to me, at least — more difficult & I initially supported it, with reservations. (Based mostly on my sense of the deep tarpit of [...]
I Love Crows
I had read something previously about this research into the fact that crows can recognize individual humans, but this is a more extended account. A couple of months ago up at the Blue Mountain Center, I wrote three poems about crows — we had a noisy resident group who entertained me through the afternoons, congregating [...]
So Sumi
It Begins
Whether I’m ready or not, school begins on Monday. More than most years, I have been putting off getting ready. Partly this is simply knowing already pretty much what I’ll be doing — the classes I’m teaching are ones I’ve taught many times before — but I’ve also finally begun to clarify for myself the [...]
Warbler
For the last couple of weeks a grayish warbler of some kind has been visiting the dogwood tree outside the TV room window to eat the berries. There are so many kinds of warblers in the bird books that I can’t really figure out what sort he or she is, but I presume there is [...]
3-D Game & a Couple of Sunday Morning Links
Strangely compelling online game in which you use the mouse to rotate the picture space until the seemingly random elements coalesce into the icon at the upper right. There may be a deep metaphor here . . . or not. [Via Work / Space, where there is also a link to a discussion of plagiarism [...]
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