Another comment by Stan
We got yet another of those political newsletters by email today, this one from Senator John Cornyn. The Honorable Mr. Cornyn’s very first note was about what he was doing to help out with the fuel crisis–drilling in ANWAR, etc, etc–but slowing down was not among them. So, once again, we wrote [...]

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A poem by Thomas Thornburg from Ancient Letters
His is a pose one seldom sees these days,
Right shoulder forward in a togaed pose,
The left hand togaed there, welding the lace
Like an inverted goblet lightly chased
(Above the wine-dark robe run from its rim)
To the translucence of the swan-like stem
Sweeps neck to crown of that crushed velvet [...]

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A video
Are you “… mad as hell, and … not gonna take it anymore!”?
While we have been struggling to relocate that Bhuddist idea about detachment–and we certainly didn’t leave it in the sock drawer–we ran into this video on the Alternet site. Bill Moyers is a hero to us and, we suspect, to a lot [...]

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