“Do you realize this year is the twentieth anniversary of a huge world event?” my friend Sondra said as she accosted me outside the local grocers. “Well, I guess that would be ’89,” I said, as I scrambled to remember what 1989 was all about. As usual, I did not have to reveal my ignorance […]
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*(et us all) Collateral damage is not collateral to those who are damaged. Stop sound-biting. Fact check talking points. End the free-market charades. Reflective is better than reflexive. Listening is more efficiently effective than talking. Ask not what your enemies are doing to you, but what you are doing to yourself. Remember the Pharisees.
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Seven-second drama by SMSmith, playwrightAdam & Eve (et all thereafter): “Oh, what are we to do?” Voice (Off-stage): “Just put one foot in front of the other, and try not to slip on your tears.”
(:Transcribed from meetings of Democrats Anonymous in undisclosed U.S. locations:)▪ Unfortunately, too many Democrats seem confused by the media’s “blue” labeling. Historically, we Democrats have been closer to the theoretical left, which is not conservative (or big-business) blue. However, by this same twist-of-color, our political rivals appear even more disoriented by their “red” label. They
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*ska, Neo-Cons; **Not to be confused with other Red books. Advertizing: The art of manufacturing desire and producing dissatisfaction, envy, and so forth, all in the greater cause of economic growth and free-market capitalism. A pillar of democracy. American Covert Operations: Secret interventions to promote democratic values and thwart anti-capitalists/corporatists. These are necessarily secret to
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by SMSmith Near drowningIn tsunamic rush.Irrational.DrivenAgainst the barren scapeOf reason. ReasonCaughtIn whirlsOf imbalanceScreamingPeeledLike bark from groaning willowsDriven into the inexplicableOf the root of minus one. Blinded, castFrom a realm unseenInto the abyss between.Disheveled, bruisedTorn, confused.Dreams breakingAgainst matterMatter against miracle.
It happens to good people. It happens to not-so-good people. And when it does, it seems our human nature to cry, “Why me?” “Why this?” “Why now?” Or as a good niece of mine recently wrote, “I need some extra help in trying to remember that God doesn’t hate me.” The short answer to the