Saturday, September 01, 2012

MUSA QALA

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by Lex Runciman Image source: IRN Seventeen people were beheaded as punishment for a mixed-gender party in Musa Qala in Helmand - a vi...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

ON THE OPENING OF THE 2012 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION

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by Karl Kadie                        For Bill Costley The speakers are all talking about themselves: me, me, me; How I made it ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

SUPERABLED

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Poem by Charles Frederickson Graphic by Saknarin Chinayote Paralympics 26 sports 39 disciplines Ethos Determination Inspiration...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

SONNET TO ISAAC

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by David James Olsen Image source: Skye Dear laughing Isaac, listen if you please: Don't dig your wells in New Orleans now tame....

MOONWALK

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by Wayne Scheer I may be the only person in America my age who didn't watch Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. It was a conscious...
Monday, August 27, 2012

GODSPEED NEIL

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by Jon Wesick Dad handed me the binoculars. I stared into the Florida sky. In the distance the big Saturn V was a splinter atop an...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

ELECTRIC-BLUE EYES

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by Bill Costley Bill Costley has served on the Steering Committee of the San Francisco Bay area chapter of the National Wr...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

CHECKPOINT

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by Sari Krosinsky After the bus at the head of the line is de-boarded, inspected, and re-boarded, the dew-faced, khaki-clad blond asks ...
Friday, August 24, 2012

THE CANDIDATE PLAGUE

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by Sarah Brown Weitzman In the beginning      they will come in swarms clogging the air      waves, spewing abuse as much on each other     ...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

SKINNY DIPPING IN THE SEA OF GALILEE

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by Dana Yost House Member Is Rebuked After Nude Swim in Israel--NY Times Sacred pond, shimmering pond wet eyes of grief. Consecra...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

SONG FOR TODD AKIN

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by Kimberly Poitevin       to the tune of “I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General”       When the raping is legitimate, a pre...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

$TOP NEEDING, $TART LEADING

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Poem by Charles Frederickson Graphic by Saknarin Chinayote Untaught lessons worth knowing how 2B loved & loved back Schoo...
Monday, August 20, 2012

THE SUMMER AFTER HIS SOPHOMORE YEAR

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by William Aarnes Source: Dr. Goodword's Office Their son comes home from college thinking his parents have piddled their promi...
Sunday, August 19, 2012

BANKSTER RAP

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by Jon Wesick (a.k.a. MC Dimon) Financial bungle – Sometimes I blunder nearly take the nation under. Financial bungle – Sometimes I b...