Tuesday, September 30, 2008

PRESSING PANTS ON DEATH ROW

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by Buff Whitman-Bradley He has spent fifteen years on death row, fucked over by lawyer after lawyer – the one who fell asleep during the tr...
Monday, September 29, 2008

LACK

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by Dion Farquhar We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves. --George Orwell, 1984 formerly a radical pursuit: the...
Sunday, September 28, 2008

SALVATORE FERRAGAMO LASTS

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by Bill Costley On a brightly sunny Norcal morning, as we both limp thru an upscale mall, Ivo says he tells his wealthy friends “Don’t think...

BAIL-OUT

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by Barbara A. Taylor socializing losses toxic corporate debts for Main Street– saved by the State owned by the few Barbara A. Taylor 's ...

MORE THAN WE WANT

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by Paula Sergi Even the potted plants are in shock, either dead from water-logging or spindly and anxious as a teenager trying to understand...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

THE TWO PROPHETS

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by Esther Greenleaf Murer (Jeremiah 28:1-17 ) Jeremiah wore a wooden yoke around his neck, made of the stoutest oak. "Babylon will ...
Friday, September 26, 2008

STACKED DECK

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by Dave Seter Poker champs cradle chins, rub meaning from faces, while two channels over political luminaries fake transparency on the issue...

MUDDLING THROUGH

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by Scot Siegel "After decades of investigation, scientists are still unable to explain why no part of the brain seems responsible for s...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

McCORIOLANUS

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by Bill Costley very slightly adapted from Coriolanus Act III, sc.II, ll. 52ff McCoriolanus : Why force you this? Palinia , his running-mate...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S
OBAMEO + JOHNIETTE

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by Olga Wayne Two partyholds, both alike in stubbornness, On fair Potomac, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, ...

JOHNIETTE'S SOLILOQUY

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by Aaron Gillego Obameo, Obameo, wherefore art though Obameo, Deny thy Muslimhood and refute those charges, Or, if thou wilt not, I will be ...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

YOGI. POET LAUREATE OF BASEBALL

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by Earl J. Wilcox At 83, icon of icons, there you stand, Yogi, your shadow smaller and smaller each time we see you. Your clear-eyed twinkle...

THEY WERE CARELESS PEOPLE

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from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retre...
Monday, September 22, 2008

ANATOMY OF A TERRORIST

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by Suzanne Richardson Harvey Our preliminary diagnosis revealed no apparent abnormalities No early symptoms of the disease were visible True...