November 3rd, 2009
I saw that fish, and it wasn't nearly that big
Oh, my, that's well said
Howard Dean: ‘There is no moral obligation to support the leadership on an issue, [b]ut you have a moral obligation to help the leader run the senate the way he thinks it needs to be run.’
A day is the blink of an eye
Is it really a year since Ralph Nader called Barack Obama an Uncle Tom?
An idea
I’m thinking maybe we should wear yellow ribbons for the cure of prostate cancer.
Going in full-bore
I am about to oil my wooden flute. Please wish me luck, and contact the authorities if I don’t return timely.
My latest e-book: Poems not really from anything Portuguese and rhymed like a sonnet
Annals of bad naming
‘Triggers’ indisputably are things hazardous to health. Very hazardous. I always think of a gunshot wound when I hear about ‘triggers’.
(OTOH I am not convinced that ‘public option’ is such a bad name. With that name it has gone from obscurity to prominence and popularity, perhaps in part because it makes reactionaries behave abusively. One of the tricks of public discourse is getting the ‘bad’ guys to abuse you in front of cameras.)
(OTOH I am not convinced that ‘public option’ is such a bad name. With that name it has gone from obscurity to prominence and popularity, perhaps in part because it makes reactionaries behave abusively. One of the tricks of public discourse is getting the ‘bad’ guys to abuse you in front of cameras.)
