A comment from Stan

Contributor, faithful reader and friend Gene Novogrodsky has pointed out that both the articles I’ve published today have not been readable on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. When I’ve gone back to look at them, I’ve found a longish piece of code that included an ‘if’ statement referring to Internet Explorer and pieces of [...]

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Wherein the Poet Relates a Visitation and Elucidates His Theme
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You know, my Friends, how long since in my House
For a new Marriage I did make Carouse:
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
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For ‘Is’ and ‘Is-not’ though with Rule and Line,
And ‘Up-and-down’ without, I could define,
I yet in [...]

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from Gene’s Notebook

…and let’s get to one argument that is very unsympathetic to the
US soldiers in the current wars, yes, wars ….
“Hell, they signed up, voluntarily, and if ’stop-loss’ occurs (keeping a service person after the enlistment has expired), too bad; they wanted some money; this is part of the job, which usually was easy.”
Some [...]

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A poem by Thomas Thornburg from Ancient Letters

BUBBLES THE HIPPOPOTAMUS, led
to believe her concrete block demesne
surrounded by barker and cagéd cat
was of her natural habitat
unchanging and forever green,
is dead.  Beloved, she fell asleep,
o.d.’ed like a teen-ager in the park
she slipped into the surrounding darkness
deaf to the midway midgets’ weeping,
the sorrow of keepers who [...]

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