Tuesday, July 31, 2012

DROUGHT

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by John Guzlowski   Image courtesy of sighthound through Creative Commons. See my little girl? She can read a book mak...
Monday, July 30, 2012

BUILT-IN OBSOLESCENCE

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by Janice D. Soderling Chinese state media reported breathlessly about a teenager from eastern China who sold his kidney for about $350...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

BEACHCOMBER

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by Laura Rodley With long tanned legs and shorts lined with pockets she walks beach, spying beach glass, valued lockets of the ...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

MY LIFE HAD STOOD -- A REPUBLICAN

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by LaWanda Walters                    on the occasion of a politician's remark                    that the Colorado shooting          ...
Friday, July 27, 2012

THE REGISTRY OF KIM JONG UN AND HIS NEW WIFE COMRADE RI SOL-JU

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by Ed Plunkett One nuclear weapon Two matching Jeremy Lin Houston Rockets jerseys Three bottles of that plum liquor I had a couple of...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

MAMMYWOOD

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by Gloria Andy Warhol. Mammy . As it goes, even J-Lo was maid up to remain the same Driving Miss Lazy just sticks to The same crazy cr...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

LET ME COUNT THE WAYS

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by Ed Shacklee Propaganda Poster by Bas van Oerle How do I love thee, Mitt?  Dear weathervane: I love your trees, which are the prop...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

BOTTLE IT UP

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by Becky Harblin Image source: Ecologist Tomato plants droop, the apple trees are dropping fruit, and the large leaves of shade pla...
Monday, July 23, 2012

CENTURY 16 SHOOTING: JULY 2012

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a pantoum by Meg Eden  Joker-red hair, dyed in the sink. Always alone, white boy— Alone, rider. Alone, burrito-eater.  Even...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

FOR SAUNDRA'S CHILDREN

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by Wayne Scheer "i wanted to write a poem that rhymes but revolution doesn't lend itself to be-bopping." Nikki Giovanni wrote ...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

RANDOM ACTS AND HEARTACHE

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by Lynnie Gobeille I lived out in the mountains of Colorado One could say I spent my Youth out there Spent it with wild passion Spent it foo...
Friday, July 20, 2012

DARK KNIGHT

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by Karen Greenbaum-Maya AURORA, Colo. — A former neuroscience honors student dressed head to foot in body armor and brandishing three we...

THERE WAS A COUP TODAY IN PARAGUAY

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by Jose A. Alcantara Paraguay's ousted president, Fernando Lugo, denounces 'parliamentary coup'   -- The Guardian 24 June...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

STATUE

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by Alexis-Rueal Let them keep the statue-- we need monuments. But let this monument be honest; too often we polish the frailty out o...