Wouldn’t it be nice about now to be inoculated against political sleaze, spin
and specious argument? While awaiting that medical miracle, let’s think about
pleasant things to come, like Indian summer or Halloween.
Rebecca Lilly can always distract me:
a child’s magician hat–
dust motes float
in the moonlit attic
Indian summer
fire ants swarming
over a rotted squash
Creaking gate —
the crows evenly spaced
between the headstones
“Indian summer” – A New Resonance 2; Modern Haiku XXXI:1
by dagosan:
health food store:
unnatural sneeze
in the candle aisle
[Oct. 16, 2004]
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Scheherazade asks whether comment spam is effective; f/k/a wonders about annoying Referer List spam.
We gladly join Prof. Bainbridge’s campaign for the serial comma. See Get It Write.
We disagree, however, with Prof. B. about whether John Kerry will have a mandate. Our worry: that a Bush re-election “mandate” will make the American people co-conspirators to global recklessness in the eyes of the world. Unlike citizens under a dictator, Americans are responsible for the actions of its Government.
It’s amazing that e-mail can now be sent by thoughts alone. Now, we just need to get everyone to think
before engaging in email or IM. (via Steve Minor)