A veritable embarrassment of riches, a cornucopia for your delectation tonight. Thank you all for your picks. Happy reading.
Hopefully, you'll note some posts that you hadn't noted before, go read them and perhaps come back and make a comment. Or better still, you can make a comment about a post you liked and I'll add it to the body of the Scrawl. (Thus will the Scrawl crawl as the evening wears on). Here goes.
Community News:
designanator: OSX: Costco and Salon.com Announce Merger Today. A pOSt that mOSt of OS may have missed. Was breaking news yesterday, so as "warmed over newsfeed" (attribution CCC) appropriate for leading off tonight's Scrawl. Satire. I think.
Tuesday's Picks:
Bryan Harrison: Life, Art, Hate, Death, and the GOP Brilliant exposition of why conservatives hate art and artists. " Because art is the agent of change, and for conservatives, change is the Angel of Death." Must read. Stacey Youdin
Tom Cordle: Stem Cells and Sophie's Choice "Finely focused challenge on the stem cell debate." Jeremiah Horrigan
fingerlakeswanderer: Scylla and Charybdis of PTSD "One of her continuing series on PTSD, this one highlighting the pressures on battlefield commanders and the increasing rates of suicide among soldiers." Caveat Canem Croceum
Hobolawstudent: What a tool An essay on death and taxes (well, collections) and Elder Law and legal ethics.Thoughtful and informative.
Mary Cuevas: Tucson, Arizona: Get Back To Where You Once Belonged "You can sense her excitement about the move to Tucson--I loved it." Joan K
Hawley Roddick: From WASP Enclave to Hardcore Slum Bronxville to Harlem is less than fifteen miles and a world away. The author's awakening to the realities of race and discrimination. Mrs. Michaels
damali ayo: Racism 101: Animal Farm " It is a well-written piece about how racism inheres in our society still." Smithbarney
Noahvose: Welcome to Rapid "Homeless Lakota men keep turning up dead in the river but nothing is looked into, no leads. A Civil Rights Commission comes from Washington: tell us your story" they tell the Lakota." This is Noahvose's story." Sao Kay
Mean Mr. Mustard: Mr. Pepperoni Tagged fiction. Tough stuff, way beyond Nurse Ratched. Keen observation makes the writing pop.
High Lonesome: I owe My Life to a Drug Rep " A deft and chilling "brush" that draws a conclusion." Jeremiah Horrigan
Greg Cordell: oops A cynic's epitaphs. Quite in the tradition of Jonathan Swift's clear-eyed Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift.
Poet of Logan Square: Making Fun of the Homeless "Elegantly written and profound. Even the most successful are not far from the abyss. There but for the grace of God should be everyone's motto." Padraig Colman "Wonderful post about a dinner conversation about homelessness." doloresflores_d
Christian Fredrickson: Despatches From the Class War A different take on the homeless.
Skip Williamson: Hef's Pad "How often had nude exhibitionist sprites romped in rude water-ballet, while in the shadows of the Woo Grotto voyeuristic hep cats sipped Rob Roys and reposed enrapt?" Gonzo writing, where a Charles Bukowski epigraph comes to life. Terrific stuff.
dangosteen: On my feminism "New" feminism's take on and attempted conversation with the "old."
shannonrosa: Picking on the Girl With the "Retarded" Sister An honest story about not-so-nice behavior.
OEsheepdog: " Dad, you make my life a living hell!" Part I Gripping tale of two daughters. Start here and read it through to the end.
Scoubidou: Medea's Milk: We All Come from Someone "Is it wrong to get a boner from reading something your mother wrote?" A bad son blabs.
Leslie M: I hate you because... Our favorite sixteen year old. Still writing from her heart. And beautifully.
retiredtoosoon: Dear heart, will you come tomorrow? And speaking of heart, if this doesn't grab you... Love shines through.
More Vox Populi:
Lulu and Phoebe: Moving to a Closet Part Deux "It's a touching story of how much of our lives end up preserved in boxes; those sentimental things you find when attempting to downsize in preparation for a move." Lisa Kern
Katina Choovanski: Homage to a Meconopsis (my weekend in photos)
"It is a humorous (yet informative) review of her visit to the Philadelphia Flower Show and Longwood Gardens. A must read and see for flower and plant lovers everywhere!" onecorgilover
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It's a touching story of how much of our lives end up preserved in boxes; those sentimental things you find when attempting to downsize in preparation for a move.
Thank you for including it.
Added posts by Lulu and Phoebe and Katina Choovanski.
I'd like to suggest for the Scrawl:
Booknut's A Bittersweet Last Day in Gaza: continuing post from a heroic journey in the cause of peace, and
Padraig Colman's Tamil Separatism in Sri Lanka Part 2: his authoritative account of both the present and the past of the civil war on that island.
WOOF
There is so much really good stuff here, I guess I'm going to have to give up posting and commenting and just read!!!
And thank you to ccc and you for picking yet another article of mine on PTSD.
Giggle and chuckle.
These reads are great.
I'd rather not read fakes.
Mainstream CCC? Creeps.
Conservation. Charity. Care.
The sakes in Dc venture forth.
Mess. You picked a pot of Stew.
Opens Salon's is not a cataclysm.
Politicians are dens of toxic vipers.
Mess. Barack Omama needs to read.
The key. Back in CCC days:`New Deal,
The Work Ethics, Teach Worker Trades.
Why bail out criminal thieves? Roosevelt!
Thanks. @ OS it's to Follow the Real Feed.
Cynic? hmm.
naaw.
Greg Correll
If it's not too late for this list, I would recommend adding Bryan Harrison's latest post :
http://open.salon.com/blog/bryan/2009/03/11/sophie_wisniewski_witch
If it's too late (or one person can't have two posts on the Scrawl) please consider it for the next Scrawl. It is superb.
Best,
Bill
WOOF
mary