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Yikes!

readwritenow — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:41:39 +0000

Here’s an example of the kind of reasoned, deliberative, informed discussion we’ll get if Republicans take back the House of Representatives this fall:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_08/025193.php

Two Years in the Making…

readwritenow — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:05:50 +0000

The first draft of my novel. Done.

Now, I’m doing some proofing…then more to come on the details…

Amen…

readwritenow — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:53:28 +0000

Why You Don’t Care About JournoList by Chris Kelly, a writer for Real Time with Bill Maher

Tagged: crazy republicans

Fox & Friends agree: Racial profiling not possible in AZ law because “everybody…here looks Hispanic”

readwritenow — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:59:04 +0000

Man alive, these guys just keep setting the bar lower and lower.

Fox & Friends agree: Racial profiling not possible in AZ law because “everybody…here looks Hispanic”.

That’s Bullshit! with Sam Seder: Operation Scared Shitless

readwritenow — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:18:47 +0000

I couldn’t say it better…

Tagged: Andrew Breitbart, Fox News, Shirley Sherrod, Tom Vilsack

Jeesh…

readwritenow — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:18:41 +0000

I don’t even know what to say in reaction to this:

Tea Party Leader Mocks NAACP “Coloreds” In Online Screed.

Tagged: Abraham Lincoln, Mark Williams, NAACP, racism, Tea Party Express

What is the “Roe v Wade” of the Homosexual Agenda?

readwritenow — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:08:57 +0000

And why was Mr. Perkins asked to testify instead of his long-time associate Reverend Rekers. Seems to me Rekers is the one with true hands-on experience with the homosexual agenda.

Check out Sen. Shumer at 1.44. Looks like he’s having fun.

Tagged: "Roe v Wade" of the homosexual agenda, Christian right, Elena Kagan, Family Research Council, George Rekers, Judiciary Committee, Senator Chuck Shumer

Duh…

readwritenow — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:07:19 +0000

All I can say is, duh. . I remember visiting family friends who had large photo murals of the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock on their living room walls. People who could just as easily describe the layout of old Jerusalem as how to get to the local grocery store. People who took pilgrimages to Israel and prayed that Jesus would come again in their lifetime. People who gave money, time and effort to support the poor, beleaguered settlers in Eretz Israel. But these were not Jews. These are Christians born and raised in Arkansas, Tennessee and Southern Illinois,who believed that they, through the resurrection of Jesus, would inherit the earth. And that maybe 144,000 Jews could come along for the ride.

Fundamentalist, eschatologically(sic) minded Christians do not support the state of Israel because it’s morally right or because it is in Israel’s best interest. They support it because they believe it will hasten the 2nd coming of Christ, at which time they no longer need worry about supporting the state of Israel. Many in Israel know this, but see the support of American evangelicals as central to framing (and monetizing) their efforts to drive Palestinians off the land. Many Christians acknowledge that the Jews who do not come to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior will, at the end of the day, be left behind. The Jews are using the Christians and the Christians are using the Jews. And anyone who’s been paying attention has known this for many, many years.

For the New York Times to have suddenly discovered that tax exempt charities are being used to support this unholy alliance (i.e., that American taxpayers are paying to undermine official American policy denouncing settlements), is a bit rich.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/world/middleeast/06settle.html

From our new poet laureate

readwritenow — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:00:04 +0000

Thanks to Reggie for passing this poem along:

Berryman

by W.S. Merwin
I will tell you what he told me
in the years just after the war
as we then called
the second world war

don’t lose your arrogance yet he said
you can do that when you’re older
lose it too soon and you may
merely replace it with vanity

just one time he suggested
changing the usual order
of the same words in a line of verse
why point out a thing twice

he suggested I pray to the Muse
get down on my knees and pray
right there in the corner and he
said he meant it literally

it was in the days before the beard
and the drink but he was deep
in tides of his own through which he sailed
chin sideways and head tilted like a tacking sloop

he was far older than the dates allowed for
much older than I was he was in his thirties
he snapped down his nose with an accent
I think he had affected in England

as for publishing he advised me
to paper my wall with rejection slips
his lips and the bones of his long fingers trembled
with the vehemence of his views about poetry

he said the great presence
that permitted everything and transmuted it
in poetry was passion
passion was genius and he praised movement and invention

I had hardly begun to read
I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can’t

you can’t you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don’t write

Book bloggers catch on with publishers – latimes.com

readwritenow — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:51:00 +0000

An article worth reading for authors who are blogging:

Book bloggers catch on with publishers – latimes.com.

Tagged: blogging, writing