The following is from the SOA Watch organization, which is trying to close the School of the Americas (renamed WHINSEC).  Go to http://www.soaw.org for more information on how our government exports torture and blackmail to Latin America, all from Ft. Benning, GA.

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The following is from the SOA Watch organization, which is trying to close the School of the Americas (renamed WHINSEC).  Go to http://www.soaw.org for more information on how our government exports torture and blackmail to Latin America, all from Ft. Benning, GA.

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On Monday, Jon and Kate held a conference to report that their TLC reality show competitors, the Roloff family of "Little People, Big World," are a scandalous clan.

"Those children are crying for help...and comforters that match the window treatments!" said Kate. 

"The mom on the show---" … Read full post »

I don't know what you're doing this evening, but I am going to a very important meeting at El Torito (not. its. real. name.).

I was invited (by a message in my Spam folder) to go to a meet-up group on the paranormal, 9-11, and alien abductions.  From my back and… Read full post »

"It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And Mama hollered out the back door, 'Y'all remember to… Read full post »

"...When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying 'What are these stones?' then you shall let your children know..." Joshua 4: 21-22

Years ago my uncles went to Mississippi's Vietnam Veterans Memorial and came back with a picture.  Families of the dead soldiers were asked to send… Read full post »

On the Mary Wollstonecraft blog, there is an interview with me up now.  There are tons of interviews that will be up in the coming days.  Men and women have been asked for their views on feminism and discrimination and how these issues have affected their lives.

http://open.salon.com/blog/m… Read full post »

1.  You know how like....people?  Will sometimes put....like....extra words in their sentences...like...they don't know...like...what to say and they...pause like and kind of..um....squint...or wince and it's like.....they're..uh....word constipated?  And they make things questions..th… Read full post »

Contact Congress Now!

"At the end of this week, Representative Jim McGovern will reintroduce the Latin America Military Training Review Act! In the 110th Congress, this legislation was known as HR 1707 and for more information about the bill and whether your Member of Congress supported it, che… Read full post »

What am I supposed to do?  That woman was so mean to me always yelling and screaming and when I got in the car when I was 12 she smacked her mouth like chewing tobacco and said, "This car went down a lot when you set in it" and "You've got… Read full post »

sweet spot

My lips caress that

sweet spot on your throat, pulsate

with it, taste it.  Feel

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There are many, many awful or offal songs to choose from for this challenge.  These come to mind:

"Good Directions," by Billy Currington

(I had never seen Billy before searching for this on youtube.  Billy is kinda cute.  You know, the longer I see Bi… Read full post »

DharmaBUmmer callS herself a "TreeHugger,"anD When I look at THE treez That Live Near HEr, they seem REAl happy. OnE Look St Dharma and You'd know Why. EveN the WeepINg Willows havE ERECT limbs!!

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What can I say? I… Read full post »

Trey Montana has not been with us long, but Trey Montana has been with us a lifetime.  He is beyond the normal scope of men.  He is a god.  He is the alpha and omega, as well as the letters in between that I don't know.  He will… Read full post »

Plunging neckline means

folds of ivory beckon

maybe they'll hire me Read full post »

I was going to write a post about what being part-Irish means to me, but then I realized that it doesn't mean much of anything.  All I can do is ramble and ramble about how there are all these cultural myths (and yes, I  have noticed this about other cultures, too) that… Read full post »

His pants were the fertile furrows of fields.  They were lines of leanness, like lions in their ferocity. They clung to his hips like a bad dream clings to a waking drunkard.  Like a fart in no wind clings to the guilty. Buckled against his waist, they beckoned. … Read full post »

When I person is a writer they write their whole heart and the holes in their heart and they try real hard real hard.  They expose themself not like that man inthe park (must have been cold out--real cold out or he got shrunk in the dryer ONE WORD: Vigra) and… Read full post »

Around 3AM I posted a 'famous' poem for my favorite poem.  mah's blog made me remember this poem--newer and less famous--that deserves attention.  Of course, feel free to read my last post about another favorite poem, too.

By Pamela Gemin:

SENIOR PICTURE, 1971

I take it all back,
each… Read full post »

I have too many poems, really, as most of us do.  One rises at this moment, though maybe tomorrow another one would.  My poem is Tulips by Sylvia Plath.

I don't kerr what you drive, I'm in love.  Your tophat stirs the core of my being, like a wicked bout of food poisoning or  a Tom Jones concert.   When you throw in Franch words, like o-WEE, comminikay, and endanger, I fear my heart will melt.  I've even picked up some o… Read full post »

A teacher once told me that a famous thinker--famous to her, I can't remember his name--was once teaching an Ivy League class, then stopped to comment on the fine day, while looking out his window.  "I think that I shall go outside."  And he did.  And never went back to his job… Read full post »