Year: 2003
Across Switzerland at Night
Posted on October 1, 2003 in Book of Days Travels - Past
Somewhere in the middle of Switzerland, a short man stumbled into my compartment. A curly strawberry blonde beard dribbled from his chin. The man wore the classic lederhosen with a white shirt and brightly ornamented suspenders.
Letter from Ariana Huffington
Posted on October 1, 2003 in Gray Davis Recall
It’s time to Terminate Schwartzenegger’s candidacy
Super Rats!
Posted on October 1, 2003 in Creatures Strange
Will these super rats find a way into adjacent Central Asian Republics? Will they spread into Afghanistan and force Osama Bin Laden to flee, arm-in-arm, with the U.S. High Command?
The Law and Morality
Posted on October 1, 2003 in Immigration Morals & Ethics Social Justice War
The logic is telling: if the law changes to allow a person to become legitimized, then that person is no longer illegal and therefore no longer morally suspect. The question which must follow is this: if the only thing that has changed is the status of the person under the law and not the behavior, why declare them morally reprehensible in the first place?
The Ten Commandments
Posted on October 1, 2003 in Liberals & Progressives Morals & Ethics
It is unhealthy for any free society or any free religion to allow healthy and vigorous debate to be shut down by the whims of a majority — no matter how slender or how broad. It kills the community and kills the soul.
Valyermo 6
Posted on September 30, 2003 in Book of Days Myths & Mysticism Photos Sexuality Travels - So Cal
The peace of the garden could have been Eden.
What are We Going to DO about Illegal Citizens?
Posted on September 30, 2003 in Immigration Satire War
If those who live here without INS approval are “illegal aliens”, then those who do not register for the draft are “illegal citizens”.
An Alabama Recall
Posted on September 30, 2003 in Gray Davis Recall Morals & Ethics Social Justice
Riley, who is a devout Christian and a man of conscience, read a theological paper that discussed the Christian’s obligation to the poor. His tax reform would have shifted the tax burden off the backs of the working poor and onto the backs of the wealthy.
Is Ahnold a Shoo-In?
Posted on September 30, 2003 in Gray Davis Recall
If you vote for him, you give him license to be these things. It means that you are an accessory to his boorishness, his arrogance, and his stupidity
Fogbound
Posted on September 29, 2003 in Book of Days Weather
Note: This is part of a series based on exercises from A Writer’s Book of Days. It’s something of a rebellion against the Friday Five and similar tupperware content memes.
Today’s topic: The night won’t save anyone.
Low fog across the face of a crescent moon. The moon fights to remain noticeable. Come morning, the light will have brightened, but visibility will remain murky and the moon will have dimmed and dropped over the horizon.
Things come in the darkness. When day breaks, they loiter.
California Poetry Anthology
Posted on September 29, 2003 in Writing
More than a few of you are poets. If you are a California poet, you should know that the deadline for the annual Tebot Bach anthology is coming up on Wednesday, October 1.
For more information, click here.
I wish everyone who submits well!
