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Word Cloud: ELDRITCH
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. – Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1 We’re midway through October, when black and orange decorations are popping up everywhere, and Americans add giant bags of … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration, Ireland, Mythology, Poetry, United States, Word Cloud
Tagged Carl Sandburg, Celtic, Eldritch, Halloween, Jack O Lantern, Pagan, Pumpkins
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Reliquary needed for fragments of the True Conservative
By ann summers Who are true conservatives, the dope-smoking homophobe Bill Buckley, the late druggie Andy Breitbart, George “Cubs Win!” Will, Ron “Goldbug” Paul, Billy the son of a Trotskyist Kristol, Chuck “Grecian Formula” Krauthammer… More importantly, who among the … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Capitalism, Conservatives
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates
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POC aren’t the problem for the Homeland’s “war on terror”
By ann summers The problem is as it’s always been – the ethnocentrism of the European colonizers and their American-born descendants, basing their bias on property and power and in the case of recent GOP politics on the fear of … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Crime, Criminal Law
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Unintended consequences: The 1965 Immigration Act and its nativist contradictions for 2016
By ann summers Would you go “back to where you came from” even if you’re from here, so that you could return to enjoy(sic) the rights of full citizenship and even though those you encounter on a daily basis discriminate … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Civil Liberties, Conservatives
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates
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Day of Infamy for a Seventh Grader
by Chuck Stanley All of us have a Day of Infamy. For younger people, it is probably 9-11-2001. For older people, perhaps the assassinations of Dr. King, Bobby Kennedy, or President Kennedy. In my case, it is Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s … Continue reading
Posted in 9-11, American History, Terrorism
Tagged Brandi Stanley, CelticLassie, Memories, PTSD, World Trade Center
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The Triumph of the Nanny-State: Lock-down those classrooms or I’ll hit you with my heroic lunch-box
By ann summers “We wanted to nip the problem in the bud,” (1990) A Second Grader in Widefield, CO, was subjected to investigation and evaluation after he responded to an assignment as to what he saw in the clouds by … Continue reading
Iconoclastically applying Mary’s geologist handle to The Donald
By ann summers Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets supporters after his rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium on August 21, 2015 in Mobile, Alabama. The Trump campaign moved tonight’s rally to a larger stadium to accommodate demand. (Photo by Mark Wallheiser/Getty … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Campaign Finance, Capitalism, Celebrity, Christianity, Conservatives, Democracy
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates
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How posse comitatus or Commadus’s posse is already here
by ann summers Regardless of the degree of derangement, lone gunmen are always the decentralized form of terror, whether domestic manslaughter or random carnage. The problem despite some neologistic tendencies by the MIC to organize fear or procurement of weapons … Continue reading
Word Cloud: CHORTLE
by Nona Blyth Cloud As an antidote to all the preliminary Primary Screaming dominating the news, I highly recommend Sarah Vowell’s wonderful books, which are a combination of Tours of Historical Sites, Vowell’s Interactions with her Family and Others, and … Continue reading
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