...O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes ( Read more... )

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In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
Thomas Wolfe

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(*But not like a Scientologist.)

Remember Death To The Extremist?
( Let's kill math. )

Stars are again like a teary ballad, and at nights ( Read more... )

What breaks your heart?

This is getting picked up everywhere, but allow me to direct your attention to reports that more than one percent of the adult population of the US is in prison. This is, as you may guess, a record, and is an increase not reflective of a similar rise in the crime rate, but of an increase in harsher sentencing (and stricter sentencing requirements ( Read more... )

OH, I GET IT. It's funny because men and women are DIFFERENT.

Kosovo has once more declared their independence from Serbia.