The Cause Lost Was Treachery
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: History
Few nays were heard, those hundred years
Since Abe Lincoln was killed.
No self-[flagellation, no soggy tears,
When the Great Lost Cause was willed.
The Rebel losers, in their grief,
Having lost their valuable property,
Sought about like a common thief
To replace it with absurdity.
The day the virus came
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Science
The day the virus came –
Damn its double name –
Is the day the world closed down
With a terra firmer frown.
SWEAT OF THE SUN, TEARS OF THE MOON BOOK 6
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin
A NEW RECORD
- Written by: William Hunn
- Category: Culture
A NEW RECORD
In October we went to see The Who at Toyota Center in Houston. The band opened with a lengthy but incomplete selection from Tommy. After a few minutes, I realized I was singing along, easily recalling all the words even though I probably had not listened to the album in its entirety in years. As I looked around, it was clear that 20,000 other people had joined me.
Empathy For All...
- Written by: Eric J. Kiser
- Category: Politics
And now for something completely different...
So, this is America in the 21st Century. Call me old-fashioned, but when I was growing up back in the day, this country was a major source of pride for most of its citizens. Sure, we had problems. Things like wealth inequality, racism, gender suppression, international threats and nukes were just the tip of the iceberg. And regardless of which side of these problems you landed on, we could at least come together around the holidays and have some fun.
pseudoscience
My youngest is doing currently doing his Junior Year at Berklee College of Music The following is his paper on Joel Lord's article VRM: Vaccine Toxicity – Middle Ear Infections and Autism. It may be the best (yea ok, I might be a tiny bit biased) paper to refute that idiot and all those who follow him.
NOBODY ASKED THE ANIMALS
- Written by: Mike Bowler
- Category: Science
In three weeks’ time, I visited three of San Diego’s biggest tourist attractions – the San Diego Zoo, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and SeaWorld of San Diego. After battling crowds on weekends and battling smaller crowds on weekdays for each park, I reached an overall conclusion: Humans are the winners and animals are the losers. Of course, since we are also animals – primates to be exact – everyone loses. Jared Diamond in The Third Chimpanzee, suggests we are a third kind of chimp.
Crap
They go by many names; Conservative, Republican, right wing, alt-right… But I call them CRAP (Conservative Republicans and Putin).
They push bullshit in many forms, economic theories disproven years ago, racial hate, xenophobic statistics, religious bigotry, conspiracy theories, and all manner of political lies.
Less Than Human
- Written by: Stephanie E Barr
- Category: Fiction
The alarm pounded through Maureen Hunter's dream like a hammer, shattering it in a million pieces. As she slammed it to silence and looked at the time blearily through her sand-encrusted eyes—she must have forgotten to take her contacts out again—she groaned quietly. It was her damn project. Why the hell had she agreed to a 7 am meeting after she'd had the meet-n-greet last night with the bigwigs from Washington? Even a brain like hers required more than three hours of sleep a night.
Mommy sick
Mommy, Laurie and me
When I was in the first grade, my mother became very ill with Rheumatic fever. This caused my sister and me to be sent to stay with our grandparents. Laurie went to live with Mama (Valentina Lugo, my mother’s mother) and me with Laura Rosa, Abuelita. The illness effects lasted almost a year and caused me to be ‘left back’ because of missing so much school. This period marked my sister and I in the same way, as each of us stayed closer to the side of the family we lived with ever after. Although each of us went to visit the aunts, uncles and cousins from both sides, the natural affinity imprinted by having lived with each side, became lifelong.
