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Poetry Friday

POETS TO COME

POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than          before known, Arouse! for you must justify me.

I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future, I [...]

Poetry Friday

LEAVES

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Every October it becomes important, no, necessary to see the leaves turning, to be surrounded by leaves turning; it’s not just the symbolism, to confront in the death of the year your death, one blazing farewell appearance, though the irony isn’t lost on you that nature is most seductive when it’s about to [...]

Poetry Friday

IN VAIN

The stars in the sky In vain The tragedy of Hamlet    In vain The key in the lock       In vain The sleeping mother       In vain The lamp in the corner          In vain The lamp in the corner unlit             In vain Abraham Lincoln                         In vain The Aztec empire                            In vain The writing hand: in [...]

Poetry Friday

AMERICA

America, you ode for reality! Give back the people you took.

Let the sun shine again on the four corners of the world

you thought of first but do not own, or keep like a convenience.

People are your own word, you invented that locus and term.

Here, you said and say, is [...]

Video Poetry (Un-American Edition)

NOFX – FRANCO UN-AMERICAN

I never thought about the universe, it made me feel small Never thought about the problems of this planet at all Global warming, radioactive sites Imperialistic wrongs and animal rights! no!

Why think of all the bad things when life is so good? Why help with an ‘am’ when there’s [...]

America’s crisis worse than Japan?

America’s crisis in a historical context | Worse than Japan? | The Economist

THERE is one consolation for the depressing instability of finance. History offers a rich array of banking crises from which policymakers can draw lessons—and against which today’s rescue plans can be judged. According to an IMF database, there have been 124 “systemic” [...]

Poetry Friday

I, TOO, SING AMERICA

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.

Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then.

Besides, They’ll see [...]

It’s time

Sometimes, I really wish I didn’t have to turn to the foreign media to get the best news from an unbiased and objective perspective. The Economist has long been one of those foreign sources of news to which I have turned to get a broader perspective of world events.

The Economist generally has a [...]

Never thought I’d see it!

A-train railing against free-market realities. Okay, so it’s not truly a free market, but there are limits to what banks receiving funds under TARP can do; limits designed to protect the American taxpayer as a senior investor (the investments are in preferred securities after all), whilst not placing excessive limits on free-market flexibility for the [...]

God & Politics: redux

A repost from March, prompted by various Twitter and other assertions that the United States was founded on “Christian principles” … nothing could be further from the truth.

The only part of became the United States that was founded on “Christian” principles was the original Plymouth colony in Massachusetts, by the Puritans who were escaping [...]