for poets who avoid the rules
how can 1 love words & loathe the manhassle of punctuation or grammar’s arcane statutes?
the usefullness of blogging
what it’s done for me stuff I’ve learned from mine. experience reading blogs
Viral Propaganda
But what a brilliant idea! Think of the work the Germans and the Japanese put into getting their propaganda heard, and think of the money the U.S. government currently spends getting its propaganda …
The Facts of Chuck Norris Facts
It seems like the Chuck Norris Facts are on their way to becoming a sensation. Like anyone, I’m curious about cultural phenomenon’s like this happen? Why Chuck Norris and not, say, Jean …
Big Heads, Tiny Bodies
First, let me says that I’ve never had anything against Lucile Ball, the I Love Lucy show or Desilu productions. But when I was a young child, stricken with the flu and allowed to lay on the …
Moodometer
Depression skews your perspective on everything. A few months ago, I was so frustrated and sad that it seemed I had constantly felt that way, for months, without any relief. I knew this wasn’t …
The Tax-Raising Fetus Killers Versus the Out-Sourcing Torture Fascists
I was just reading a discussion thread on digg.com about a new David Lakoff book, Whose Freedom? The Battle over America’s Most Important Ideas and, as all political discourse on the Internet …
Forget It Jake, It's Seattle
I’m a crime film fan. This is not a crime film. The crime in this film is not a part of the plot, but rather a part of the setting. Police Beat is about an immigrant, far from his family, …
Two Years of Sitting on Our Hands
I came across an old news story at the Guardian this morning about a suppressed 2004 Pentagon report that predicts in the next 20 years, or 18 years since this report is two years old, climate change …
Rhetorical Ice Cream Question
I met Mike in New York a couple of weeks ago for our annual baseball trip. We saw games in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington DC and rounded out the trip with museums and lots of beer and …