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EQUINOX

I must keep from breaking into the story by force for if I do I will find myself with a war club in my hand and the smoke of grief staggering toward the sun, your nation dead beside you.

I keep walking away though it has been an eternity and from each drop of [...]

Video Poetry (Bright Version)

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BRIGHT EYES – I MUST BELONG SOMEWHERE

Leave the bright blue door on the white-washed wall. Leave the death ledger under city hall. Leave the joyful air in that rubber ball today.

Just leave the lilac print on the linen sheet. Leave the bird you killed at [...]

Republicanism Explained

Okay … now this is some funny shit … I’ve just snipped an except, but you’ve gotta go read the full thing.

First Draft: Republicanism Explained

Well, I’ve done a lot of observing and thinking, and it seems to me that the Republican party stands for two things.

Tax cuts are the cure for everything, [...]

Poetry Friday

JOEY AWAKE NOW

Some poems, right some poems.

I’m a lover of poems. And yes, we lovers of poems

must stick together. Don’t mind me. Pardon? Glenn? Glenn? Glenn. It is nice to meet you, Glenn.

You are thinking you are in luck. Because look,

a strange old man has joined you at the bar. [...]

Nostalgia? Already?

I must be suffering from Post-Election Withdrawal Syndrome (PEWS); George W. Bush isn’t even out of office yet, and I’m already beginning to feel some nostalgia towards his Presidency of the past 8 years.

Not because I think he was a good President; far from it, in fact, but the Bush Administration has given me [...]

In Flanders Fields

Op-Ed – A Holiday to End All Wars – NYTimes.com

TODAY is the 90th anniversary of the armistice that ended the First World War, and it will be commemorated very differently on each side of the Atlantic and across the borders of Europe. It’s a reminder that not all “victors” experience wars in the same [...]

Don’t Vote

Don’t vote … unless you care about your future, your children’s future, your grandchildren’s future, the economy, civil rights, human rights, women’s rights or gay rights, the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to worship (or not to worship) how you choose, education, defense, [...]

Video Poetry (One World Edition)

BLACK EYED PEAS – WHERE IS THE LOVE?

What’s wrong with the world, mama People livin’ like they ain’t got no mamas I think the whole world addicted to the drama Only attracted to things that’ll bring you trauma Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism But we still got terrorists here livin’ [...]

Oil on its way back up?

Georgia: Attacks continuing despite Russia halt claim – CNN.com

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday that he had ordered an end to military operations against Georgia, but Tbilisi reported more attacks after the statement was made.

Medvedev’s announcement came minutes before French President Nicolas Sarkozy was to land in Moscow to [...]

Olympic Truce? Not so much …

The top two stories on the New York Times at the moment:

Georgia and Russia Nearing All-Out War – NYTimes.com

As Russia moved in more forces and continued aerial bombing, it appeared determined to occupy the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

In Phelps’s First Event, Gold Medal and a World Record – NYTimes.com

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