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Cretinism - I mean creationism
Okay , maybe this is just me getting on my usual high horse, but how can a Rhodes scholar with a bachelor's degree in biology from Brown University make a statement like "There’s no scientific theory that explains how you can create organic life out of inorganic matter" when there obviously are quite a few such theories? Thanks, Bobby Jindal, for ( Read more... ) -
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My dream last night was so visually stunning that I want to wrap it up and save it to look at later - which will make writing it particularly hard and reading it not as enjoyable as dreaming it, but I'll do what I can ( Read more... ) -
Bush feels like reminiscing; I do too
Okay, so this is actually old news. Bush sang a happy little ditty at a press dinner last week. I've peppered the song with all the things I find distinctly un-funny, for anyone who's forgotten that the mistakes of a president cause real harm. Bush apparently sees his ruthless expansion of boundless executive powers as eight years of darn good ( Read more... ) -
The usual, as winters go
From the New York Daily News:
"New Yorkers' allegiance was split along racial and gender lines with heavily black neighborhoods picking Obama for President."
Somebody want to explain to me how there are heavily female neighborhoods in New York that picked Clinton for president to warrant the mention of "gender lines" in this statement?
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The end of droughts
After rainless weeks, we're finally getting showers here and there--the whole town's misty with humidity, if not yet with raindrops. Let's hope my stunted tomatoes and eggplants are properly grateful. And here I am, finally posting on LJ after who knows how long ( Read more... ) -
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I keep passing along a pair of articles that made me think more about intersections between government policy, food, economics, health, and poverty. There's a lot going on in both of these articles that is definitely worth consindering:
"You are What You Grow," about the cost of nutrition and how the Farm Bill subsidies are forcing the obesity ( Read more... ) -
"Prince Henry Morgan Commands His Ships" Part Deux
Deciding that my dream about a poetic homage to an unknown Prince Henry Morgan was not weird enough, rakelspektakel was curious if somehow I had written a dream-poem about a real historical figure. So with a little help from Google and Wikipedia, she discovered that there is indeed a well-known Sir Henry Morgan, commander of ships. Not a prince, it turns out, ( Read more... ) -
Are its origins in the Dirty South?
Last night I watched the first half of I Heart Huckabees, then fell asleep and dreamed that I was a writer of environmental poetry. I gave a reading of one of my poems, entitled "Prince Henry Morgan Commands His Ships," which, I informed my audience, was "about consequences." In one of my untitled pieces, I'm pretty sure I used bread mold as a ( Read more... )
