A True Crime
My best friends are buried in the back yard they lie comfortably in the beds we made beneath the shade of the crab-apple trees We wrapped them in satin sheets Oh mother earth! Please guard them well I won’t forget They live in my heart
TROPE BUNCHING #2 / ‘Moxie’
Analyze the following: ‘Moxie’ by Jerome Shea When Moxie was first in your mouth, you didn’t know what you had taken in. But by then it was past worrying. Of course you could spit it out but, a good New Englander, you swallowed. Then the first charge hit. Dry—I remember that so clearly—not the silly […]
‘Just Say No’ to pharmaceutical drugs
An increasing number of shooting rampages are being committed by individuals who are under the influence of or withdrawing from prescription drugs that are known to cause mania, psychosis and even homicide in some patients. Colorado authorities confirmed James Holmes had received psychiatric care at the University of Colorado for undisclosed issues before donning combat […]
ODE TO CHARLIE
He’s a crossfire pinball wizard no reason to get excited You ain’t going nowhere Until we kiss the sky He’s been away While the joker plays A hurricane phony Just got back today A bustle in your muffin better to burn out than it is to rust After the Beatlemania Has bitten the dust I see […]
Theme from an imaginary heavy metal rock opera
BURNING IN HEAVEN (think Spinal Tap): Jack and Jill went up the hill and now they burn in heaven Jack climbed Jill but she was on the pill so now they burn in heaven Dick and Jane were doing the same We’re all burning in Heaven See Spot Run from the end of a gun […]
Charter school nightmare
De-funding public education is the quickest and easiest way to control the population. The idea is simple: kill critical thinking before it starts. An under-educated populace can be manipulated quite easily, and unless people are aware of their history they are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. This is where we find ourselves […]
How does Genocide happen? Three Case Studies
What is happening in Gaza is not new. Misguided religious beliefs and simmering, deeply entrenched racism each play a role in creating the conditions for genocide. In many cases, violence is perpetrated by one ethnic group upon another based solely on religious affiliation. In Cambodia, organized religion was considered a threat to civil order, and […]
Sacred Cows
When renowned author and environmental activist Vandana Shiva writes about ‘Mad Cows and Sacred Cows’ she makes a compelling case against the trade policies of the global cattle industry. That cows are sacred in Indian culture almost goes without saying, but few consider the practical, economic and environmental uses of cattle – especially on poor […]
History 301: Fundamental considerations
According to J. Samuel Walker in Prompt & Utter Destruction, the five fundamental considerations which led to the use of the atomic bomb grew out of circumstances that existed in the summer of 1945, when an especially brutal island-by-island military offensive was still being waged in the Pacific. The battle of Okinawa had sacrificed tens […]
History 300: The Potsdam Declaration
The government of Japan had many reasons to resist the Potsdam Declaration initially. As discussed in J. Samuel Walker’s Prompt & Utter Destruction, The Declaration – also known as the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender – was a document outlining the conditions for Japan’s surrender in World War II issued by the US, Great […]
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