Vagina Dialogues at the Michigan Capitol
This is one of the few times I can sort of liveblog an event as I was there today as Eve Ensler and a number of women Michigan State Representatives and State Senators - assisted by a core of very able...
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My Favorite Authors: Siddhartha Mukarjee, exploring the vast realm of the...
Here death may deal not again for ever; Here change may come not till all change end. From the graves they have made they shall rise up never, Who have left nought living to ravage and rend....
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My Favorite Authors: Russell Banks Writes about the Futility of Blame and the...
By homely gift and hindered Words The human heart is told Of Nothing—"Nothing" is the force That renovates the World— Emily DickensonFor this installment, I...
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My Favorite Authors: Carole King "A Natural Woman". Just the kind I Like.
When the Jazzman's testifyin' A faithless man believes He can sing you into paradise Or bring you to your knees It's a gospel kind of feelin' A touch of Georgia slide A song of pure revival And a style...
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My Favorite Authors: Algernon Charles Swinburne; The Personal is Poetical
Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die. Algernon Charles Swinburne The Heptalogia (1880)As another is a series that...
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My Favorite Authors: Paul Krugman, a prize for Cassandra and a clarity of...
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. ~Alexander Solzhenitsyn Given the events of the...
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My Favorite Authors: Barack Obama, the Audacity of the Man and the...
Let's start this one in Iraq. Not because of the way the political leadership has dealt with the country, or because of the importance of the war as a central issue during most of the first decade...
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My Favorite Authors: Christopher Hitchens and Confronting One's Own Mortality
Now, ballad, gather poppies in thine hands And sheaves of brier and many rusted sheaves Rain-rotten in rank lands, Waste marigold and late unhappy leaves And grass that fades ere any of it be mown; And...
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My Favorite Authors: Marguerite Feitlowitz, The Argentine Dirty War and the...
Tonight, in this city without altar I hope the dead souls can see my eyes and turn my watchful gaze into the flicker of a candle flame Not the sacrificial spirit money for the ancestors not the raging...
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My Favorite Authors: Larry Heinemann, Letting Us Know About the Scars of War
I Can't Remember Anything Can't Tell If this Is True or Dream Deep down Inside I Feel to Scream this Terrible Silence Stops MeNow That the War Is Through with Me I'm Waking up I Can Not See That...
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My favorite Authors: A return to Dr. Seuss, and an Indulgence of Sacrilege
I admit that I am not normally a religious person, but for this diary, lets have a go at one of the Gods that is worshipped fervently in this country.I'm not discussing the God, whoever or whatever she...
View ArticleIndigo Kalliope: Poems From the Left: Elegy for a Mitthead
Although this seems to be beating a dead issue, I am in an elegaic mood for personal reasons. And so, for my promised contribution, I offer this in memory of a soul-less slippery bloodsucking eel of a...
View ArticleHow Nice: Someone at The Economist takes down a racist bonehead
As I have written before, I subscribe to The Economist but have mixed feelings about it. The magazine (or the 'newspaper' as it prefers to style itself) has a lot of good info and a droll and erudite...
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My Favorite Authors: Jonathan Swift and an updated Modest proposal
We are all fans of reasoned discourse here. This is a political site devoted to serious topics, like the deficit, and wealth inequality, and access to affordable health care, and the need to move past...
View ArticleAn even dumber idea: Medicare means testing
President Obama is in the midst of a so-called 'liberal pile on' (by that meaning his base taking him to task for a cruel, pointless and politically stupid manoever of releasing a budget proposal that...
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The Grieving Room: Amour, my Version
When I'm strong and feeling fine maybe When I can look at you without crying You might look like a friend of mine But I don't know if I can Open up enough to let you in Here come those tears Here come...
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The Grieving Room—On the Spectrum of Sorrow: Grief, Complicated Grief and...
So when exactly do you pathologize a normal human process?I have been thinking quite a bit about this recently because I remember, as the second anniversary of my wife's death approaches, a time where...
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The Grieving Room: The Little Princess
On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. ("One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.")...
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The Grieving Room: Yeah, it's Complicated
As I go through the second holiday season since the death of my wife, I have been thinking again about the process of healing, why it is so difficult sometimes, and what happens when it cannot happen.I...
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The Grieving Room Valentine's Day Edition: The Lover's Heart
Neither me nor my former wife was ever really into Valentine's DayIt was certainly not the case that we weren't romantic types; we had a very passionate relationship in many ways, at least until she...
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