certain there will be
weather but not whether it
will shine or bluster
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
PAUL NEWMAN, 1925 - 2008
You know, so much of the time we're just lost. We say, "Please, God, tell us what is right; tell us what is true." And there is no justice: the rich win, the poor are powerless. We become tired of hearing people lie. And after a time, we become dead... a little dead. We think of ourselves as victims... and we become victims. We become... we become weak. We doubt ourselves, we doubt our beliefs. We doubt our institutions. And we doubt the law. But today you are the law. You ARE the law. Not some book... not the lawyers... not the, a marble statue... or the trappings of the court. See those are just symbols of our desire to be just. They are... they are, in fact, a prayer: a fervent and a frightened prayer. In my religion, they say, "Act as if ye had faith... and faith will be given to you." IF... if we are to have faith in justice, we need only to believe in ourselves. And ACT with justice. See, I believe there is justice in our hearts.
Paul Newman as Frank Galvin in THE VERDICT
Friday, September 26, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Unchanged
recalling the velvet
revolution and the sounds
psychedelia
reverberating
while we waited for the world
to stop its spinning
revolution and the sounds
psychedelia
reverberating
while we waited for the world
to stop its spinning
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Together
place books in plain
boxes
wrap the boxes in
brown paper
without labels
take one year
if you have forgotten
burn them
boxes
wrap the boxes in
brown paper
without labels
take one year
if you have forgotten
burn them
Monday, September 22, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Why aren't women furious about Sarah Palin? | Salon Life
Why aren't women furious about Sarah Palin? | Salon Life
...Republicans have -- in a P.T. Barnum, sucker-born-every-minute kind of way -- successfully framed themselves as the custodians of Christian ethics and conservative family values. This stance successfully masks their wholesale class war against the majority of their supporters, who continue to vote blatantly against their own economic interests in thrall to this deliberate emotional manipulation. It was the media critic Douglas Rushkoff who pointed out, several years ago, that Republican politicians were employing marketing techniques perfected by Clotaire Rapaille. Rapaille, broadly paraphrased, introduced a theory that approximately 80 percent of all decision making is done at the level of the limbic system -- our lowest, most colorless, reptilian emotional level. Republican strategies are consistent with a belief that the voting process, for most people, is full of feelings -- but devoid of reason...
...Republicans have -- in a P.T. Barnum, sucker-born-every-minute kind of way -- successfully framed themselves as the custodians of Christian ethics and conservative family values. This stance successfully masks their wholesale class war against the majority of their supporters, who continue to vote blatantly against their own economic interests in thrall to this deliberate emotional manipulation. It was the media critic Douglas Rushkoff who pointed out, several years ago, that Republican politicians were employing marketing techniques perfected by Clotaire Rapaille. Rapaille, broadly paraphrased, introduced a theory that approximately 80 percent of all decision making is done at the level of the limbic system -- our lowest, most colorless, reptilian emotional level. Republican strategies are consistent with a belief that the voting process, for most people, is full of feelings -- but devoid of reason...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Now That the Day Has Passed
It's two days past September 11. It's another day when I see just how unmutual I am. Perhaps, in social science it's called low identification. At any rate, I've not felt particularly emotional about the events of that day when they happened or since then. My life wasn't changed and when I hear commentators say that those events change everything I believe at best they are being disingenuous and at worst they are lying. Although I will agree that travel has become even more stupidly tedious than it was before.
I can appreciate great athleticism or skill in any field. But I'm never so deluded as to think that i accomplished it or that my presence made it possible.
I can appreciate great athleticism or skill in any field. But I'm never so deluded as to think that i accomplished it or that my presence made it possible.
Bill Maher Rules!
| September 5, 2008 | Send Bill Maher's New Rules to a Friend |
New Rule: Aw, perfect. If you're a baby mama trying to hide your baby daddy's baby behind your mama's baby, you just might be a redneck. At least when Obama got a convention bump, it wasn't leaking amniotic fluid.
New Rule: Get a room. [shots of McCain and Palin] John McCain has called his VP his "soul mate." Is this a running mate or a mid-life crisis? The old maverick is so hot for the MILF - he had to put a folder in front of his crotch because the "surge" was working.
New Rule: [with shot of Fred Thompson] You can't criticize someone for giving a - quote - "teleprompter speech" in a speech you are reading off a "teleprompter." Also, you can't accuse the other guy of being a celebrity when you, yourself, have been in movies, starred on TV - and modeled for a shoe company. [shot of Thompson next to Hush Puppies hound] He looks like the...
New Rule: Democrats - Democrats must not treat Sarah Palin with kid gloves just because she's a lady. And you can start at the debates. "Sarah Barracuda" meet "Joey the Shark."
All right, and finally, New Rule: Republicans must stop saying Obama is an elitist and just admit you don't like him because of something he can't help, something that's a result of the way he was born. Admit it. You're not voting for him because he's smarter than you.
Now, in her acceptance speech, Governor Palin accused Obama of using his run for the White House as a "journey of personal discovery." This from the lady who just spent ten minutes introducing her family: Track - Track, Trig, Bristol, Piper. For a minute there, I thought she was calling in an airstrike.
Karl Rove described Obama as - quote - "the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and making snide comments about everyone who passes by." Unlike George Bush, who is the guy at the country club who makes snide comments and then passes out.
Now, this characterization, of course, was something Mr. Rove just pulled out of his bulbous, gelatinous ass - but, remember, this is America, where people believe anything they hear. One of McCain's ads casts Obama as "the one," implying he thinks he's the Messiah. Well, good, maybe he can raise McCain from the dead.
But, it doesn't matter to Karl Rove that his country club caricature is made up. It's the role that Obama must play if the party of plutocrats is going to win over the little guy. But, Barack Obama can't help it is he's a magna cum laude Harvard grad and you're a Wal-Mart shopper - who resurfaces driveways with your brother-in-law.
Americans are so narcissistic that our candidates have to be just like us: not very bright. And that's where the McCain camp gets their strategy. Paint Obama as cocky and arrogant and wait for America to vote him off like the black guy in every reality show.
A black president? Half of Pennsylvania isn't ready for a black quarterback! Forget Obama. They think Will Smith needs to be taken down a peg. And they may be right about that one, I can tell you.
And as for "Country First," you know who's putting "Country First"? I am. By supporting Obama. Because a victory this fall for the McCain-Mooseburger ticket...would make my job the next four years very, very easy.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Monday, September 08, 2008
Ferryman
Anti takes you over
the river
sticks
float swift
then slow
then round in eddies
time is passing and soon
the acequias will be dry and
filled with tumbleweeds
laugh ruefully
laugh often
laugh until your eyes fill with tears
it's your birthday
and you are still giving
birth to yourself.
the river
sticks
float swift
then slow
then round in eddies
time is passing and soon
the acequias will be dry and
filled with tumbleweeds
laugh ruefully
laugh often
laugh until your eyes fill with tears
it's your birthday
and you are still giving
birth to yourself.
Sunday, September 07, 2008
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Friday, September 05, 2008
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Monday, September 01, 2008
Blanche
BLANCHE
slowly the pen writes
on my skin
each word leaves
small drops of
blood
each drop
erases each letter
as it dries
first my hands then
my arms sink into
ice cold water
when did water
become
pink?
slowly the pen writes
on my skin
each word leaves
small drops of
blood
each drop
erases each letter
as it dries
first my hands then
my arms sink into
ice cold water
when did water
become
pink?
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