Sunday, July 6, 2008
Am I arrogant?
One of my friends on MySpace has a Chinese zodiac calculator where you put in your birthdate and it tells you what your sign is. Since my birthday is at the beginning of our year, there was the question of whether it fell before or after the Chinese New Year in my birth year. As it turns out, it...
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Saturday, July 5, 2008
Our Illegal Country
There is a growing opinion held in this country that, despite our heritage of welcoming, starting with the native tribes that helped the Pilgrims survive their first winter here, and continuing with the great period of immigration, "The New Colossus" and the Statue of Liberty, despite all of this,...
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
Purchase
Purchase There never was a purchase made Nor would I wish to make one That would enslave whom I love free To freely choose to love me So I would agree and love that you thought To repay all that I have given you All that appears to falsely suggest A purchase made with beauty or wealth Copyright ©...
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Monday, June 30, 2008
A Fourth of July Song for You
I just want to invite everyone to my MySpace page (<-- click here) to listen to my song commemorating the centennial of the Statue of Liberty (in 1986) "A Home for All". You don't have to have an account on MySpace and playing the song there is free. If you would like to have your own copy to...
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My Entry into Sexiest Body Part Contest
My, that didn't come out the way I intended! Nor that! I was trying to speak about a contest on a MySpace blog wherein we were asked for our sexiest body part and a picture thereof. I dashed off this response, which I thought you all might like: I cannot show you my sexiest part And you wouldn't...
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
The Media
The Media As if in some nightmarish dream My words cry out unheard All those I love and others too Keep walking into danger's way And do not turn a head or eye Nor slacken yet their pace But only hear the call to rush From proud, bright, leading lights 'Tis Lucifer Yes, 'tis Lucifer Who mocks the...
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Immigrants to the US and English as an official language
There is much confusion about this topic. It is entirely a confusion rooted in the worst kind of self-serving demagoguery. The plain and simple fact is that the US Constitution and all of its laws are written in American English at the time they were written. Ignorance of American English is thus...
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Monday, June 16, 2008
Unprose
Unprose Lost in the sea I free From sentence Period concussion Deep red thoughts Flow No gate No line Crowded fish station Open-mouthed people Verb herb Garnish Their silent water breath Sale Today Take two Wrapped Loose Copyright © 2008 by C. P. Klapper
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
My position on the Iraqi war and peace
This was written in response to a MySpace poster who expressed anger at George W. Bush over the situation in Iraq: Hussein was a cold-blooded murderer of his own people, witness the Kurds, who needed to be deposed. However, it was pointless for any foreign armies to stay beyond that point. We cannot...
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Monday, June 9, 2008
Hot Time, Not Quite Summer Just Outside the City
When I posted this to MySpace, I couldn't set the category to "weather". What sort of set of blog categories is it without the "weather"? Why would they exclude the prototypical default topic of conversation? Especially when it makes the landscape resemble a Dali painting: My pocketwatch just...
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