Woodshedded (verb)
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Free Use, Copyright Law
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Copyright and Fair Use
Copyright and Fair Use Fair Use is a legal term you use at your own risk. Lawyers can readily …
Witch’s Brew
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Knowers Knowing What Can’t Be Known & Believers Believing What Can’t Be Known Either
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Kristallnacht, Babi Yar, Tulsa
Kristallnacht, Babi Yar, Tulsa miso – a combining form meaning “hate,” with the object of hatred specified by the following element: misogyny. …
It was the third of June…
It was the third of June... It was the third of June, another sleepy dusty Delta day. The Ode to Billie Joe as written and …
Teach Your Children Well
A slice of a Wikipedia column of information is enough to read how unreliable that information is. You can whack off a part of every …
Choice Rebecca Solnits
I am again profoundly admiring, jealous, changed by the incisive writing of Rebecca Solnit. From the one essay (above) I quote only a few …
Gunchildren
Do you ever notice how few intellectuals visit gun mayhem on churches? Funny isn’t it? Even though their members score unusually high …
Faux Holies
The Faux Holies are out in droves nowadays. Not only Christians — Buddhists killing people? But in America it’s the Christians who are …
A Child in Bed
A child is sure monsters are under her bed. Or in the closet. She’s young, the frights of the adult world are disconcerting. Makes perfect …
America is Poised
America is poised between just another sunny day and living forever with radioactive fallout. Blame it on the Confederacy that hadn’t the decency to admit …
The Man Who Couldn’t Mean
Trump Talk Bubble We’ve all heard about the little man who wasn’t there but now we have the fatsy man who couldn’t mean. What do …
Buildings Lighted Green
Buildings around the world lighted in green. What does the ego that stomped the US out of the Paris Accords make of all the greening-up? …
Immigrants With Pets
–––––– I’m enjoying the pleasures of writing with pointed words — as if this administration was Saint Sebastian and my arrows would sink in. –––––– …
Contempt in High Places
Remember Leona Helmsley, “Only the little people pay taxes”? Remind you of Donald Trump about to barge into the White House in flamboyant disregard of …
Black experience, flip and deep
I need to write this. Now. I’d heard of a prize-winning novel by a black man writing of black experience. A quick search turned up …
Parisians Being Parisian
Whenever I go somewhere I come away wondering what I’ve missed. In Paris not what streets I didn’t follow, but rather on the trodden streets …
A Paris, of Many
Paris is simultaneously so many adjectives why pretend yours is more valid than Jean Paul the taxi-driver’s, or Walid the TV historian’s or Julia Child …