SLS — Midnight Oil’s Mountains of Burma

image link which also takes you to Rolling Stone article on the group Jim Adams is the host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: Music is in the air, lighting up our hearts and filling our dreams as an art form made up of sounds and silence. (and you said you weren’t a poet, Jim)…

FPQ — footing the bill

Fandango’s question of the day is easier than others he’s asked. “Should tax payers have the option to explicitly say what they don’t want their tax dollars spent on?” What do you think? What areas, if any, would you wish to exclude your tax dollars from paying for? Fandango, I think representative government as we…

To Mr. James Baldwin, With Love

image link Anmol is hosting dVerse this evening.  The topic tonight is privilege.  Anmol says: You can approach the idea of privilege in different ways. You can either seek inspiration from these poets and their poems or reflect upon your own privileges and share them through a tapestry of images and metaphors along with a…

Institutionalized soul murder. — Lucky Otters Haven

After watching Season 2 of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and writing about it recently, when I read Lucky Otter’s essay on totalitarianism and the trends of real life going on in relationship to it, I wanted to share it.  It’s important we face where we are.  The title is apt. “If you’ve been following me for…

The Handmaid’s Tale — S2

I’m about to go watch E4.  Hey peeps for those of you who haven’t watched this series, it gives me an icy chill up my spine.  It’s probably how some people felt back in George Orwell’s time when he wrote 1984, where they were thinking if we are not careful this is where we are…

All Hail King Joffrey

  All hail King Joffrey with plump rotten fruit All hail King Joffrey Small hands tight suit * World acclaim King Joffrey Broad mauler extraordinare World acclaim King Joffrey Bloated gut, combover hair * Bow down to King Joffrey For he holds the prize Bow down to King Joffrey Of world’s bullies least wise *…