The many as noticed by the one: The noticed one, confusing itself with the many Yet perceives itself as an individual Traveling between two fixed poin...
If Biden is elected and starts gassing people, my qualified support of the court argument will look silly, I grant that. I will even send you a $100 a...
Let me fix that. I've been listening to the live oral arguments recently and probably most of those cases haven't been decided on yet. Among those are...
I like the idea - I don't know where it originates, but it crops up here and there - of the soul as something you have a relationship with. It's like ...
That time faded too and the night Softened to smooth spirals or foliage at night. There were sleeping cabins near by, bind lanterns, Nocturnal friendl...
I don't think it's straightforward and that has been my point. what's straightforward is this isn't straightforward. And people aren't equivalent to j...
Basically all I'm saying is, for people for whom particular things matter, its sometimes necessary to take into account nomination of judges. And, whe...
No one's talking about whether the state will save anyone! Save. No, the state won't save anyone. If the person who says the state will save everyone ...
I brought up personal stakes in the sense that it's helpful to think of concrete effects on people when appraising how they vote. People aren't lining...
I think we all can agree Joe Biden is morally compromised, to put it lightly. His character is in tatters, the flag is drooping. Yes, yes, I agree. As...
That would have gone over my head too, but I'm thankful for the introduction to the term. Bracketing both the rhetoric (and my general misgivings, rea...
My mistake, if I hadn't leapt to conclusions, I would have realized you were simply talking about forced labor in the holocaust and I would have seen ...
good god, guy - domestic abusers and nazis? Easy, easy. At this rate of moral condemnation inflation, what are we going to call actual domestic abuser...
I remember meeting you in a dark dream Of April, you or some girl, The necklace of wishes alive and breathing around your throat. In blindness of that...
The grand hotels, dancing girls, Urge forward under a veil of "lost illusion" The deed to this day or some other day. There is no day in the calendar ...
Pretty soon oil has Taken up the place of The dark around you. It was all As told, but anyway it never came out just right: A fraction here, a lisp wh...
I have a theory on this: Australia, in the American imagination, is more West than our West (& we love our West.) Our West is laconic Clint and ironic...
That reminds me of what a wizened Tasmanian told my father, years ago: "Legend has it that if you dive far enough into the dreamtime, down past the ru...
Small waves strike The dark stones. The wife reads The letter. There is nothing irreversible: Points to the last sibilants Of invading beef and calico...
Too much aussie pride on the forums lately; I think its incumbent on the rest of us to stem this before it goes too far. For instance, the Sydney Oper...
A lattice-work crust Holes are blobs of darkness Has been placed across the road You can't walk out too far that way any more They say the children ar...
I was thinking Now that the flowers are forgotten A whole new frontier Backing around the old one are Swamping its former good ideas Plowing under the...
/uploads/resized/files/vd/a4pierwi9jxy2jlq.jpg I'll use this picture as a 'main post' signal, if necessary. It's a close-up from the book's cover, a p...
I also have a copy of that book! its fascinating, but I haven't had a chance to read closely yet. I can't compare them because I haven't read either i...
Living with the girl Got kicked into the sod of things. There was a to-do end of June, Comings and goings Before the matter is dropped. But it stays a...
A protracted wait that is also night. Funny how the white fence posts Go on and on, a quiet reproach That goes under as day ends Though the geometry r...
@"StreetlightX" Courtney Barnett is great. She's one of the best of the last decade. But, moving beyond music - as always, australian bluster compensa...
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