. This commentary first appeared in the Algemeiner on January 11. The last time I wrote about President Obama’s then only rumored selection of Chuck Hagel I said two things I knew I would wish to revise. The first, rhetorically, was the question: “What was he thinking?” The second was a quotation from Gil Troy’s generally very good writing […]
Eating Poetry (XLI) – The Shield of Achilles
. A magisterial poem of soul searing, tragic bleakness.
Head Reconstituted
. My previous post accounts for why I have spent the past 26 hours feeling miserably reptilian, tossed to the side of the road, catatonic on my back. Tssssssssssss. I am miserably persistent, too. I researched data recovery programs – free data recovery programs, which are, especially in trial forms, as good at the full-price software […]
Exploded Head
. My head has exploded after working for six hours yesterday on 2000 difficult words that I did not save and for which no variation on Microsoft Word auto recovery has worked to find even a temp file. I will be back online and among the barely recognizably human after I have recovered the pieces, reconstituted […]
Anti-Labor, Anti-Free Press, Anti-Gay, Anti-Israel
. Some people never get the point. Some people once got the point, or claimed to, claimed to see it – there it is, over there – and then they got their hands on the point and stretched the point, to make a point, turned it inside out, inverted and perverted the point, developed a […]