The Anchor
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion ; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. -- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWhen we think about liberal...
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Polarization: Past and Present
A number of commentators have lamented increasing polarization in Washington. Conventional wisdom has it that America is as divided and partisan as it ever has been. Sectional divisions are tearing...
View ArticleClinging to Glory
The teabaggers are predominantly baby-boomers who grew up in and around the 50's, in the echo of one of America's greatest victories (WWII) and the era of its greatest rise in power. America was the...
View ArticleBeck's Epic Win, Be Very Afraid
After watching parts of the Beck rally and seeing him in "action", I am not sure what I was watching, but it did remind me of something. What happens when god fearing religious fanatics feel powerless???
View ArticleIndigo Kalliope: Poems from The Left
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Indigo Kalliope: Poems from The Left“Words as Weapons: The Ammunition of Peace”Join us every Monday evening for drinks at the new Kos community political poetry...
View ArticleIndigo Kalliope: Poems from The Left - The Protest Song
Welcome to the second installment of Indigo Kalliope: Poems from The LeftJoin us every Monday evening for drinks at the new Kos community political poetry club. Drop by and speak your mind in rhyme or...
View Articlenow 66 and counting . . .
66 does not seem as if it should be a momentous birthday. Except for those of us reaching that age now, it means we are eligible for our full Social Security benefits (except I chose to begin to...
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Top Comments - Overcoming Familial Republicanism
I WAS OUT on the roads today, looking at a series of signs for political candidates, almost all of them Republican. Pretty disgusting. And they put the word “Republican” right on the signs, almost as...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Clearing Out the Lives of the Dead
I have been spending most of the day for the last week cleaning out my brother and parent’s house. We lost Dad in 1999 and no one went through his things. We lost Mom in 2010 and I’ve gotten through...
View ArticleCentenary musings on a poem of Anna Akhmatova
"Cabaret Artistique" January 1, 1913Всемыбражникиздесь, блудницы, We're all revelers here, prostitutes,Какневеселовместенам!...
View ArticleLife's Dynamic..unto Death's Mystery
if half the book is missing…does it kill you…a half finished book is…after all…a half finished love affair…just trying to understand…why we keep making the same mistakes…over and over…our lives…and our...
View ArticleTomgram: Engelhardt, The Future Is Not Ours (and Neither Is the Past)
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Requiem for the American CenturyTurning 70, Paragraph by Paragraph By Tom...
View ArticleWhat songs bring back good memories of you when you were a kid?
I need some good memories... it has been a rough couple of weeks,.When I get down, I turn to music, specifically I turn to older tunes that in the past picked me up.Below are some that are associated...
View ArticleInteresting: Video from the year you were born - 1969 anyone?
I was born in April of 1969.I know it was a time of great news and social upheavel.Of course, being awfully young at the time, I cannot say I remember much of the year, but I found on the youtube a...
View ArticleThe Final Chapters
The final chapters of my life have not been written out. so no one here or anywhere knows how my life will end. Because no one here is God. When I died, I saw what humans call, by so many different...
View ArticleThe Present Never Looks as Good as it Will in the Future
Friends at the Daily Kos,I tend to become somewhat reflective as the New Year approaches. As such I am reminded of Peter Benchley, who wrote, “The past always seems better when you look back on it than...
View ArticleThe Hubble Telescope captures the oldest known image yet—13.4 billion years ago
An international team of astronomers have broken a distance record. A cosmic distance record. They were able to use the Hubble Space Telescope to see all the way back, 13.4 billion years ago, and...
View ArticleThe 1950's Reframed
The picket fenced yards with their majestic Elms — no litter in the streets. June, clad in heals and accessorized with a pristine white apron and pearl necklace. Cookies a baking, and of course...
View ArticleThe year was 1969...
xYouTube VideoNixon is inaugurated 37th President of the US (Jan. 20).Nixon started "Vietnamization" in Southeast Asia. The United States, USSR, and about 100 other countries sign the nuclear...
View ArticleGet to know one another: Post 1 silly little known fact about yourself.
Usually I ask a question of the night, I already asked tonight’s question here about drinking bottled water, yay or nay.But I am an insomniac, so I thought I would write a second diary tonight to tend...
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