Monthly Archives: September 2014

War War War

September 18, 2014 – 10:37 am

Hawks in the media and military establishment are calling for America to address the threat of ISIS after the video beheadings of journalists covering the civil war in Syria. Former Vice President Dick Cheney told Fox News commentator, “Now, are we going to pull yourself up by our bootstraps and get on with the business […]

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The Unmagic of the BBC

September 15, 2014 – 7:37 am

Varanasi on the Ganges River is one of the oldest cities in the world and considered by many to be the spiritual center of India. Archaeologists date its origin to over three thousand years ago and Siddhartha formulated the tenets of Buddhism upstream at Sarnath in a sermon entitled ‘Turning the Wheel of Law’ in […]

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Not Man Enough

September 10, 2014 – 8:10 pm

I’m half-Irish. I wear a size 10 shoe. Not once have I ever dropped my trousers and heard a woman say, “Not with that you don’t.” Once I mentioned transplanting a donkey penis and my doctor scoffed saying, “Your body doesn’t possess enough blood to engorge such a monster. You’d probably pass out before you […]

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dreaming of a tree – a poem

September 9, 2014 – 5:09 pm

dreaming of a tree a tree bigger than me I wish I were three Three of me Holding hands we hug the tree We three and a tree bigger than me.

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The Catoosa Blue Whale

September 9, 2014 – 3:49 pm

Whales are everywhere. Even on Route 66. Why didn’t Chuck Berry sing about the Catoosa Blue Whale?

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