Video: Tom Lehrer | The Vatican Rag & Send the Marines
What do we do? We send the Marines!
For might makes right,
And till they’ve seen the light,
They’ve got to be protected,
All their rights respected,
‘Till somebody we like can be elected.
Edna St. Vincent Millay: Humoresque
“What queer books she must have read!”
Kazu Haga: Why the moral argument for nonviolence matters
The civil rights movement was led largely by leaders who believed in nonviolence as a moral imperative. It was not only the most effective thing, but also the right thing.
Amiri Baraka: The Liar
What I thought was love
in me, I find a thousand instances
of fear.
Rebecca Gordon: Torture’s Legacy
If one administration can get away with confining detainees in coffinlike boxes and torturing them in myriad other ways, why shouldn’t a later one go unpunished for, to take but one example, putting migrant children in cages?
John Samuel Tieman: Self-portrait with folks in St. Louis
still I recall the rains in the islands
the cold in Mexico and how
I imagined my mother standing
on the porch looking south
Video: Liberal Redneck | Super Tuesday Smorgasboard
Us liberals got a choice to make, y’all. Then the real fun starts.
Terry Blackhawk: Orchis Opens the Book
feel the earth whinny and stomp
Seamus Heaney: Pangur Bán
Next thing an unwary mouse
Bares his flank: Pangur pounces.
Next thing lines that held and held
meaning back begin to yield.
Kathryn Levy: Bernie Sanders and George and Me
A longtime activist explains why she supports Bernie Sanders.
David Huddle: Parable of the 4 a.m. Demons
My mind yearns for sleep so innocently it refuses
the perverse truth…
John Edward Simms: The Last White RINO
A conservative Republican comes to terms with what his party has become.
Dawn Potter: Sonnet in Search of Poems I’ve Never Written
I’ve been meaning to write about a patch of mossy
frogs’ eggs in a vernal pool, about a single contrail
chalking a blue November sky…
Chard deNiord: The Music of Being
Hold a hazelnut up to your eyes
as a lens for seeing through,
then wake to a katydid and say its name.
