An out-of-breath fourteen-year-old girl in cheap shoes hurries to cross the street, her hand clenches over some cash and an electricity bill. A mother feels like forty miles of bad road, stands abandoned in a super market and ponders whether to buy milk or bread. After he sees his neighbor's newer… Read full post »

 

Let us say—not “Since we know, we love,”
But rather “Since we love, we know enough.”
Robert Browning

Sudden harrowing, quivering, throbbing, stabbing, gnawing, excruciating ass, thigh, and leg pain Edward experiences for the first time. Hearing extreme distress i… Read full post »

 

When it comes to discourse, short is sweet, easy does it, and some logic goes a long way; however, sometimes a bit of finesse renders a statement beautiful. When asked by Ed Schultz on MSNBC should the democrats embrace the Occupy Wall Street crowd, our Joan Walsh—whose demeanor on the… Read full post »

 

“Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children, recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.” Leo Tolstoy

Why? Because lie-detection and truth finding is an evolutionary t… Read full post »

The idea of bailing out Wall Street in a deregulated capitalism is far more fantastical than that of a casino giving back all the money a guy lost cheating all night in cahoots with the dealer.

Realizing he will eventually fall asleep, let alone he’s not the… Read full post »

Dear Friends,

I am off for a while. I would like to thank all of you for your continuous support and for being such beautiful writers and loyal friends. I will leave you with my personal prayer and my…voice.

Your friend

Thoth

 

O Lord of… Read full post »

“Soccer is a civilized and fair game of keep away, with a goal in mind.”
 
Thoth 

I will start by turning every parent into a soccer expert. Watching soccer practice, if you see both teams running after the ball, it is not soccer; the coach needs schooling. The single… Read full post »

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.”

George Bernard Shaw

Charlie Regan did what he was told. He lived by the Twelfth Commandment and followed the Eleventh. He moved up from the ‘full dinner pail’ to the ‘full gara… Read full post »

 

Ms. Slutingham sues Dr. Everwood for sexual harassment, indecent exposure in a department store. She claims substantial emotional distress, and both compensatory and general damages. Although the evidence is vague on the indecent exposure charge, the case still goes to trial. Ms. Slutingham is… Read full post »

 

 

“You cannot find love; true love finds you. If you look for love you will find confusion and affliction; there is no right place to look for love.”

Thoth 

I am seventeen. I am sitting in the Tea-Garden of a sporting club somewhere in California with some… Read full post »

 In Ancient Egypt, the many gods were simply different manifestations of the universal consciousness, the One God: Ra, the Lord to the Limit. All the Gods were one; all were children of Ra. Whether God was Atum in Heliopolis, Ptah in Memphis, Thoth in Hermopolis or Amun-Ra in Thebes, the ancient
… Read full post »

Every state begins with an initial act of illegality, murder or theft or both. The owners of the new state hire some gofers to create a ‘myth of origins’—a bullshit story inspiring national pride. Ours was taxation, rather than genocide. Later, a “Christian nation” was a… Read full post »

“We are here on earth to groom ourselves to the best picture possible before our maker, whether it’s God or Nature.”

Thoth

Over a year on OS, I learned much about life and people. I express my gratitude to OS for giving me the chance to share my thoughts, and… Read full post »

This piece was triggered by Lunchlady 2’s post (Do You Want To Do Something About Insurance), and is dedicated to Lunchlady 2.

Why do nations around the world offer their citizens free medical care and free higher education? The answer is simple: it is a national pride. France, Britain, Canada
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Last night I received an intelligent objective comment on my post “The God Solution.”I agree, Placebostudman, no religion is above scrutiny.

FOX News Viewers and Terrorists

Have you ever noticed how liberals, democrats and those with no political affiliation alike are so differ… Read full post »

 

“In the beginning, there was doggy style; then man-on-top; then woman took man from woman.”

                               &nb… Read full post »

Katherine wakes up at 10:00 AM, reaches into a solid gold box studded with rubies for a small wooden container, scoops a little ball of the finest opium paste on earth, and smears the paste with her little finger on the back of her teeth. She lights her Davidoff cigarette with… Read full post »

Heaven Is You

Does a meadow know whose heart has bled;
What souls have longed, what words were said;
Whose love was just, whose dick was led;
Who kiss’d, who fuck’d, whose tears were shed?

I saw you walk by and I found my gift
I watched your song: a shift then a rift
The beat… Read full post »

Power, religion has, merit; religion has not. Recently many voices warn against the dangers of religious fundamentalism, especially the rising militant right wing evangelicalism. No, I will not pick on Evangelicals; although, if the right wing crusaders get their way, Islamist terrorists will look li… Read full post »

I dedicate this post to those hard-working Americans whose ancestors “built this country with their bare hands,” and who believe in a Stock Market blessing-capitalist-American Jesus. I write to those flag-waving nationalists and Bible-thumping militants who believe that Americans are the… Read full post »

All my life, almost all of my friends have always been women. I find them pleasantly challenging and I can talk to women about life, art, literature, philosophy etc. In fact, I owe a big part of my acquired social skills to interaction with women. Even on OS most of my… Read full post »

Man and Romantic Love

There is love of family, love of fellow citizens, love of all humans, love of the universe; and altruism, the highest form of love. There is also romantic love, which literally makes other kinds of love possible. Yet, there is only one kind of romantic love, which… Read full post »

 

This is not about how women should dress in public—my only wish is for them to match their clothes. The days when parents told their daughters to go back up and change because they looked like whores are gone. Male sexist claims such as “provocative or revealing” dress have b… Read full post »

The Story

In a military dictatorship, where the president is also the head general of the army, at the president’s wife’s pleasure, the bishop of the land holds the Sunday Mass in the church adjacent to the presidential palace. Only the wives of the big generals and governing junta are in
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They say that the supreme god Ra came forth from Maat, the goddess of justice and truth, and since then Ra exists and lives in Maat. Without Maat, there is no god—a loving woman is a man’s home.

Maat said,

The Lord possessed me even then
Before his works of old
He set
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