Tuesday, March 10, 2020

IN MEMORY OF TWO HONEST MEN,
ERNESTO CARDENAL AND MY FATHER

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by Penelope Scambly Schott I am taking off my hat in prayer for Nicaragua. I don’t have a black beret like Ernesto Cardenal’s. I...
Monday, March 09, 2020

CLEARITY

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by Mark Williams Cartoon by First Dog on the Moon “Hello. I am Austin Baggerly and I am giving my speech in Mrs. Colley's four...

BUG

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by Gil Hoy I know it's not what you want, but I can't live if I can't get inside of you. To be precise, I'm not...
Sunday, March 08, 2020

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2020

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by Mary K O'Melveny Once again three old white men will mansplain about child care, abortion rights, how pregnancy pratfalls ...

THE BROKEN CLOCK

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by Bill Meissner Though the black hour and minute hands are stuck, motionless, the second hand keeps circling and circling the cl...
Saturday, March 07, 2020

BYE, BYE, ST. PAT'S PARADE

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by Andrés Castro When organizers of the Staten Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade again decided to bar members of the borough’s LGBTQ prid...
Friday, March 06, 2020

POLITICS AND PICASSO

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by Ed Werstein A Facebook friend posts: Any blue will do! and I comment: What if Picasso had had that attitude? We may be enter...

WORTH

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by Pepper Trail The New York Times , March 5, 2020: “Elizabeth Warren, Once a Front-Runner, Drops Out of Presidential Race” “If ...
Thursday, March 05, 2020

DECAMERON FOR A NEW PLAGUE

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by Joan Leotta Photo of Fiesole by Sailko at visittuscany.com Boccaccio and his friends escaped to the hills of Fiesole, well abo...
Wednesday, March 04, 2020

2020 CD3: ODE TO THE NEW MOON AND MY OLD COLLEGE ROOMMATE

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by Susan Barry-Schulz The earth has a new moon—it’s only temporary—roughly the size of the orange Volkswagen Beetle you tried to te...

AN EPHEMERAL TRIANGLE

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by Myron Pulier On February 26, 2020 SpaceWeather.com reported on the near-equilateral triangle that formed briefly deep in the B...
Tuesday, March 03, 2020

THE BASEBALL HALL OF SHAME

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by Earl J. Wilcox @AsteriskTour  on Twitter: 2020 Astros Shame Tour Squatting in the dirt was never anything but awkward looking,...
Monday, March 02, 2020

CORONA

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by Dale Wisely Daffodil corona by Nick Harris                            1 Crown of stars Corona The rarefied gaseous envelop...
Sunday, March 01, 2020

FEBRUARY

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by Rick Mullin I read the news today O Lyle Mays who died of an unspecified disease not 70. Somewhere a piano plays, electric res...