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Old December’s Bareness
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English playwright, poet, actor, and theatrical company partner; widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon.” To read William … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Winter
Tagged December, Sonnet, William Shakespeare
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Winter Solstice Day 2020
This is a reprise, with some editing, of a story I wrote six years ago about the Winter Solstice. In the northern hemisphere, this is the day with the least amount of sunlight and most hours of darkness. The southern … Continue reading
A Poem for the 50th Earth Day
Today is Earth Day #50, but it will not be a celebration of our planet’s beauty and bounty. Nor will we march in protest of the many governments still lacking the political will to turn us back from our current … Continue reading
Posted in environment, Poetry
Tagged A Poem for the 50th Earth Day, Earth Day, Jane Hirshfield, My Debt
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TCS: Journeywork of the Stars
Good Morning! ________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
The fogs that shroud the Congressional Review Act … GOPredation
By ann summers This Congressional Review Act bill is important: It restores federalism and is pro-life. https://t.co/fnPMG8Q0Pi â Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) February 15, 2017 Sam Bee had a segment on Full Frontal regarding the Congressional Review Act (CRA), another of … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Congress, Conservatives, environment, Government, Presidential Elections, Presidents, Uncategorized
Tagged Congress, congressional review act, Media, Paul Ryan, Politics
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Your home heating prices will go up because Giant Yam won’t bring back coal jobs
By ann summers Clueless natural Gasbag’s “post-truth” promises to cull votes with more coal jobs will now make your home heating prices go up with little effect on returning coal jobs to the US coal belt. But that was … Continue reading
Fracking WikiLeaks’ “right circumstances”
By ann summers WikiLeaks is continuing to publish more emails from the account of John Podesta, the chair of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. One newly published email revealed that Clinton privately bashed environmentalists opposed to fracking and the Keystone XL … Continue reading
Being on the right side of neoliberal Water
“Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb … Continue reading
Posted in Countries, Economics, Energy Policy, environment, European Union, France, Government, Immigrants, Immigration, Media, Neoliberals, Political Science, Politics, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, United States
Tagged Brexit, commoditfication, commodities, commons, EU, European Union, Public Policy, Water
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Owls and Lemmings – shared last meals
By ann summers It is of course a first-world conceit and problematic to talk about last meals on earth when some have trouble getting daily meals at all. OTOH don’t we all like to speculate about penultimate pleasure, except … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Cooking, environment, Health Care, Mental Health, Philosophy, Uncategorized
Tagged last meals, lemmings, Malcolm Gladwell, Nature, owls, Suicide
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