Dorothy Parker

“As for me, I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money. I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.”

-- Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

“As for me, I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money. I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.”

-- Dorothy Parker

An axe for the frozen sea inside of us

“Kafka said, A book
must be an axe

for the frozen sea
inside us, which sounds

great, but what good
is an axe against

a frozen sea?
Perhaps this is why

he said, while dying,
Destroy everything.”

-- Matt Rasmussen, from “Elegy in X Parts”

An axe for the frozen sea inside of us

“Kafka said, A book
must be an axe

for the frozen sea
inside us, which sounds

great, but what good
is an axe against

a frozen sea?
Perhaps this is why

he said, while dying,
Destroy everything.”

-- Matt Rasmussen, from “Elegy in X Parts”

I Have So Much To Do

Today I have so much to do:
I must kill memory once and for all,
I must turn my soul to stone,
I must learn to live again -

-- Anna Akhmatova (1889-1996)

I Have So Much To Do

Today I have so much to do:
I must kill memory once and for all,
I must turn my soul to stone,
I must learn to live again -

-- Anna Akhmatova (1889-1996)

Rainbow

Rainbow

The Horse Race

"If you can't beat Barack Obama with this record, then shut down the Party! Shut it down! Start new! With new people."

-- Laura Ingraham

Going through last night's taped news shows, I am surprised to see that the Republicans seem to be a little nervous. After both conventions, Obama has apparently garnered a five-point lead in the polls. Now, five points in the middle of September is not an irrecoverable catastrophe, but considering the state of the economy, I suppose it can be dumbfounding why their man is only falling further behind.

Um, maybe they should have considered running a moderate rather than an ideologue, but of course the Republican base, including people like Laura Ingraham, would not tolerate anything less than a fire-breathing, gung-ho 'conservative' - promising even more tax cuts for the rich, maybe an extra Mideast war or two, as well as promising to take an axe to what little safety net this country has put up.

But, yeah, it would probably be healthy for America if they did shut down the Republican Party. They have surely ruined whatever good investment Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt put into it. This is not to say that a genuine conservatism does not have a place in this country, but today's Republicans are not it.

The Horse Race

"If you can't beat Barack Obama with this record, then shut down the Party! Shut it down! Start new! With new people."

-- Laura Ingraham

Going through last night's taped news shows, I am surprised to see that the Republicans seem to be a little nervous. After both conventions, Obama has apparently garnered a five-point lead in the polls. Now, five points in the middle of September is not an irrecoverable catastrophe, but considering the state of the economy, I suppose it can be dumbfounding why their man is only falling further behind.

Um, maybe they should have considered running a moderate rather than an ideologue, but of course the Republican base, including people like Laura Ingraham, would not tolerate anything less than a fire-breathing, gung-ho 'conservative' - promising even more tax cuts for the rich, maybe an extra Mideast war or two, as well as promising to take an axe to what little safety net this country has put up.

But, yeah, it would probably be healthy for America if they did shut down the Republican Party. They have surely ruined whatever good investment Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt put into it. This is not to say that a genuine conservatism does not have a place in this country, but today's Republicans are not it.

Power Trips

“The lunatics end up in charge of everything. Sane, normal people don’t need power trips.”

-- James P. Hogan

Sane, normal people? Hmm, I wonder if I'll ever meet one of them. I wonder what that is like.

Power Trips

“The lunatics end up in charge of everything. Sane, normal people don’t need power trips.”

-- James P. Hogan

Sane, normal people? Hmm, I wonder if I'll ever meet one of them. I wonder what that is like.