There are days that slip by And hours that bite to hurt; Never mind, I have known Days take the elevator to stars And left me to rusticate ‘mong angelic choir; while sweet lullabies salved hurt of hours misspent I knew the year as my reckoning. If such be the gift allowed for you and [...]
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New Year Wishes
Posted in 21st century literature, poetry, tagged 2011, Benny Thomas, greetings, New Years Eve on December 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
News on the March-honor killing
Posted in 21st century literature, current news, tagged evil, Middle East Muddle, monkeys paw, private tragedies, prodigals, religion of hate on December 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
BAGHDAD – When police came hunting for a 19-year-old woman they believed had been recruited by al-Qaida to be a suicide bomber in a town north of Baghdad, they found she was already dead: Slain by her father, who told police he strangled his daughter out of shame and then cut her throat. The killing [...]
Payback Time
Posted in 21st century literature, current news, tagged Bernard Madoff, personal tragedy, responsibility, suicide on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
How easy it is to subscribe to the proverb ‘Fathers ate sour grapes and teeth of children are set on edge.’ I do not share this view of anyone being called out to pay for the wrongdoing of another. Payback time of each ls closely hidden elsewhere and Law in most cases may render justice [...]
Wikileaks
Posted in 21st century literature, current news, tagged anarchy, movement, perpetual revolution, political ideology, rebellion on December 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“WikiLeaks has been under intense pressure since it began publishing some 250,000 U.S. State Department cables, with attacks on its websites and threats against its founder, Julian Assange, who is now in a British jail fighting extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations. A host of U.S. Internet and financial companies have severed their links [...]
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