Month: <span>July 2017</span>

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Either or

Can’t choose

Don’t want to

Not my thing never will be

Writing and Prompts

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I was watching my zealot neighbor
picking individual zoysia blades at dusk
when it occurred to me there was no way
he would ever be able to disguise
that UFO scar on his front yard.
He could subscribe to every right-wing rag
but he could not deny his perfect zoysia grass
had been scorched by a spaceship.
I thought about drones awhile,

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Cesare Tanassi 

 

Men so heartless ruled the earth for many years
And still today heartless and soulless men claim their hands are free of blood when it’s on every inch of their body, and still they control us

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I am reading a book that tickles my funny bone. It’s absolutely hilarious. Sadly, I can not recommend this book to everybody. The ones who believe that they have a direct line to heaven should avoid this book but for the rest of us, who are open-minded and are cursed with a sense of humor, this book is a must read. 

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1863 Black soldiers were allowed to serve their country

1917 Women were allowed to serve their country

2011 Gay women and men were allowed to serve their country

2017 We forbid Transsexuals to serve their country.

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“Please, sign here and give up your car.”

“What do you mean, give up my car? What will I be driving?”

“Don’t worry, we will give you another car, just not right now.”

“But I need my car.”

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Bad news – Fake news – Biased news – Bad media – Bad press – Lying press. We all heard the slogans lately and I couldn’t help research it a bit more.

For a time, “bias” was the term of choice to describe anything people hated about journalism, whether the power and influence of corporate news organizations to the choices reporters made in writing individual stories. In 2001, in fact, a book about media unfairness entitled “Bias” was number one on the New York Times bestseller list.

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If you haven’t seen me at your blog lately, it’s because all my WordPress email notifications of new posts have stopped. I follow a lot of blogs and asked for an email notification for the ones I love the most. 

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