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Tuesday, March 08, 2011
The evidence mounts daily that Speaker of the House John Boehner is a level 4 bed-wetter.
The evidence mounts daily that Speaker of the House John Boehner is a level 4 bed-wetter. /jack
Can Newt Gingrich Run For President, And Dodge Questions About The Sewer Of His Personal Life?
By Pablo Fanque
National Affairs Editor
The idea that Newt Gingrich might actually run, and somehow dupe the Republicans into supporting him in the first place (his numbers are sucking wind), seems patently absurd if you take even a passing glance at the sewer of his personal life. Republicans seem unlikely to give the nod to someone on their third marriage, especially when Wife No. 2 is talking to the press about what a P.O.S. he is, was, and always will be.
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National Affairs Editor
The idea that Newt Gingrich might actually run, and somehow dupe the Republicans into supporting him in the first place (his numbers are sucking wind), seems patently absurd if you take even a passing glance at the sewer of his personal life. Republicans seem unlikely to give the nod to someone on their third marriage, especially when Wife No. 2 is talking to the press about what a P.O.S. he is, was, and always will be.
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Photos of Jerry Melin
I recently bought a scanner with a slide/film attachment. I am scanning our old cache of slides. Here are some more photos of the late, great, Jerry Melin. /jack
click images to enlarge
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Monday, March 07, 2011
The Seattle Post Intellingencer globe is looking a little sad and forlorn...
By Mona Goldwater
Seattle Metro Editor
The Seattle Post Intelligencer globe is looking a little sad and forlorn...but nothing a good scrubbing won't fix. Apparently, when they went out of business, no one was assigned the job of keeping this great globe clean. The globe is made of steel and is one of the city's most beloved pieces of public art. I don't know if the building owns it, or The Seattle Times. The best part about the globe's location is that you can see it from many parts of the great waterfront sculpture park. Hopefully, before they sell it for scrap they will haul it down and place it in the park. And maybe bring in the Hat and Boots, and the Pink Elephant car wash sign too. . .
Seattle Metro Editor
The Seattle Post Intelligencer globe is looking a little sad and forlorn...but nothing a good scrubbing won't fix. Apparently, when they went out of business, no one was assigned the job of keeping this great globe clean. The globe is made of steel and is one of the city's most beloved pieces of public art. I don't know if the building owns it, or The Seattle Times. The best part about the globe's location is that you can see it from many parts of the great waterfront sculpture park. Hopefully, before they sell it for scrap they will haul it down and place it in the park. And maybe bring in the Hat and Boots, and the Pink Elephant car wash sign too. . .
click to enlarge
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Sunday, March 06, 2011
The death of proofreading?
By Jack Brummet
Social Mores Editor
Proofreading and stringent copy-editing may not be dead, but they seem to be wheezing, and almost ready for life support. While it hasn't happened in The New York Times yet, I suspect it will one day. Even now, it's not uncommon to find a typo/transposition on the front page. And sometimes incomplete edits, page breaks where words are missing, etc. I wonder if the person responsible for this headline kept their job?
Social Mores Editor
Proofreading and stringent copy-editing may not be dead, but they seem to be wheezing, and almost ready for life support. While it hasn't happened in The New York Times yet, I suspect it will one day. Even now, it's not uncommon to find a typo/transposition on the front page. And sometimes incomplete edits, page breaks where words are missing, etc. I wonder if the person responsible for this headline kept their job?
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Saturday, March 05, 2011
Jack Brummet poem: Scarred For Life
Scarred for Life
By Jack Brummet
It could be watching your family
Diced up in slow-motion
By a sick biscuit with a machete,
Or the day your brother let you down.
It might be when you were wrongfully accused,
Whether they figured it out or not.
Maybe you discovered your wife sleeping
With her Yoga teacher,
Or remember the night your parents
Let you cry yourself to sleep.
It could be the motorcycle accident,
Or the time you saw your Uncle naked.
Under a bad moon,
It can all leave you scarred for life.
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Friday, March 04, 2011
Poem: The Moon Race, 42 years later
by Jack Brummet
And the race was on —
Movie star Jack Kennedy
V. the spooky shoe pounding Nikita Kruschev.
We charged 226,000 miles
To that pale toenail,
Hell-bent for leather,
To claim title
With old glory or the hammer and sickle
And impale the moon on a dusty pole.
The paramecium of the Milky Way,
We wind in time and untick in the heavens
Under the weather and under the gun.
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Poem by Jack Brummet: The World Seems Especially Verisimilitudinous Tonight
The World Seems Especially Verisimilitudinous Tonight
by Jack Brummet
Swim run fly crawl and creep —
Animals don't kill time
And time loves them back.
Threading high fidelity cirrus,
The sun unloads the last of its rays
And blesses the mountain palisade
So much depends upon
Keeping this up.
And a red wheel-barrow.
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Thursday, March 03, 2011
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