Thursday, September 14, 2006

I am just starting to write poetry again, and I am posting this first new completed poem in...um...I think the technical term is forever.  Posting a poem, of course, offers you, the reader, the opportunity to make fun of me.  Enjoy.  If that's the right word.   Another Day   Of course the alarm clock fails, and I have to get up in a hurry. Just another day gone off the rails: I'm still tired, sore, a little blurry.   Of course the shower turns cold. What doesn't turn cold?  I get out with a shiver, feeling old. I am so angry I want to shout   but there's no one here to hear it. I can't stand living with someone else, better I were a hermit. But then, I can't stand living with myself.   Of course the skies are gray. Of course the days grow short. Of course time flies by like a bird of prey. Of course unhappiness becomes a sport.   I think hard on what to do, or even what I want. Things coming easily isn't in the rules of play. Life is not a buffet, nor even a restaurant. Not choosing, I waste my time.  I waste away. 8:39:15 PM    comment []

Robert Novak is a Liar   In his latest column, the man Jon Stewart calls a douchebag of liberty, Robert Novak, has disputed former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage's claim that Armitage mentioned Valerie Plame's CIA connections casually, and as purely a conjecture.  Novak said the information was more specific, and that Armitage was definite that this information was widely known (thus taking Novak off the hook for endangering national security and furthering the spread of WMDs), and a fit topic for his column.  This is a convenient defense for Robert Novak; it suggests there was nothing villainous and treasonously partisan in Novak's motivations.  The problem with Novak's claim is that in his original column on the subject, he wrote that the information was offered to him in an "offhand" manner.  Going into great detail and telling him to use the information in his column would be very far from offhanded.  So the question is, did Novak lie in his original column, or is he lying now? Anyone who believes Novak now should call for his column to be pulled, because he lied in his column in 2003, and any value he may have had as a journalist thus no longer exists.  Anyone who believes Novak was telling the truth in 2003 should call for his column to be pulled, because he is lying in his column now.  He should properly join Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass and others as a mere inventor of stories, pretending to be a truth-teller.  I admit, I'm shocked.  Perhaps I shouldn't be.  What else would you expect from someone whose friends call him the Prince of Darkness? 11:22:07 AM    comment []

Quote for the Day, 9/14/2006   "I've fallen in love, and this is what people who've fallen in love look like." "Well, you picked the unrequited variety.  It's very bad for the skin. "   -John Cusack (Craig Schwartz) and Catherine Keener (Maxine Lund), Being John Malkovich 10:42:11 AM    comment []