Monthly Archives: June 2018

ON THIS DAY: June 22, 2018

June 22nd is Chocolate Éclair Day Journey’s End Day * Onion Rings Day Worldwide VW Beetle Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Bilbo Baggins, Katherine Dunham and Ferdinand Porsche, click

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One Sentence Poems for Friday

One of my favorite poetry websites is One Sentence Poems, which does indeed publish only poems that consist of a single sentence. If you think that one-sentence poems wouldn’t have much meaning, or you even doubt they could actually be … Continue reading

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Darn them ‘vituperative’ critics of Lord Dampnut, The 4th Estate is ‘shocked’ at the incivility

By ann summers The contagion of incivility: President Trump says undocumented immigrants want to “infest” the United States. His critics respond with vituperative words of their own. https://t.co/S6CgmiuhdQ — NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) June 21, 2018   Mr. Trump’s coarse discourse … Continue reading

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A Poem for the Summer Solstice

In Summer by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 – 1906) Oh, summer has clothed the earth In a cloak from the loom of the sun! And a mantle, too, of the skies’ soft blue, And a belt where the rivers run. And now for … Continue reading

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ON THIS DAY: June 21, 2018

June 21st is Atheist Solidarity Day Daylight Appreciation Day * Day of the Gong * International Day of Yoga * National Seashell Day Peaches ‘N’ Cream Day World Make Music Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Daisy Turner, Jean-Paul Sartre and Shirin Ebadi, click

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Word Cloud: FABLES

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD ONCE UPON A TIME, in a country so big that it stretched for many miles, all the way between two oceans, a woman wrote a poem. This poem was put in the base of a statue … Continue reading

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ON THIS DAY: June 20, 2018

June 20th is American Eagle Day * Kouign Amann Day * Lambrusco Wine Day Vanilla Milkshake Day World Refugee Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Samuel Morse, Lillian Hellman and Muhammad Ali, click

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“As I have initiated the destruction of the republic…” DoJ OIG report: mistakes were made…

  By ann summers The FBI wasn’t biased, but they sure were influenced by forces with complex alliances, some Russian. The DoJ Inspector General’s report seems to indicate that at the unclassified level, the FBI comes off as hamstrung by … Continue reading

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Reaping the Whirlwind

This administration may quote the New Testament in a desperate attempt to sanctify their illegal and immoral Border War Against Children and Families, they may claim what they are doing is different from the Third Reich because the Nazis were … Continue reading

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ON THIS DAY: June 19, 2018

June 19th is Garfield the Cat Day * National Watch Day National Martini Day Sauntering Day * World Sickle Cell Day * International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict * _________________________________________ MORE! Blaise Pascal, Laura Hobson and Abe Fortas, … Continue reading

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