If we took a holiday …
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »It's interesting that the shameful pandering that is the gas tax holiday is being acknowledged as such by the establishment press; I can't remember such a broad consensus in the punditocracy about charges like that. Is that because Obama resistance ...
Poetry Friday: Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »http://wellreadchild.blogspot.com/2008/04/poetry-friday-love-calls-us-to-things.html Richard Wilbur published his first poem when he was 8 years old. He went on to translate Moliere and Racine, write lyrics musicals, win the Pulitzer Prize, and become the U.S. Poet Laureate. If you've never been inspired ...
Poetry Friday: Philip Larkin’s “Aubade” - “I work all day, and get half drunk at night”
Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »http://wellreadchild.blogspot.com/2008/04/poetry-friday-philip-larkins-aubade-i.html In the Middle Ages minstrels sometimes sang Aubades, or songs about lovers parting at dawn. This theme was revived by metaphysical poets like John Donne. In "The Sun Rising," he rails against the sun for its interruption of lovers. In "Aubade," ...
We are All Descendants of Muhammed, Charlemagne, etc.
Monday, April 7th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | 1 Comment »And like Barack Obama, we are all cousins of Dick Cheney. A little research that once ended my genealogical ambitions to find someone famous in my family: http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:5CiheUn4INcJ:www.theatlantic.com/doc/200205/olson+%22the+royal+we%22+olson&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=firefox-a Under the conditions laid out in his paper, the most recent common ancestor ...
Poetry Friday: Crossing the Hellespont
Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »A poem by me, available here.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Poetry Friday: Crossing the Hellespont", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/of-interest/poetry-friday-crossing-the-hellespont/" });
