Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

The following review ran, a little shortened for space, in today's San Francisco Chronicle : CONTESTED WILL: Who Wrote Shakespeare? B...

Dear merciful goddess, the right wing hates soccer. "It doesn't matter how you try to sell it to us," yipped the Prom King ...

Rand Paul on mountaintop removal : PAUL: I think whoever owns the property can do with the property as they wish, and if the coal company ...

I'm going to start a new religion. All the other ones are too sure of themselves for me. (Well, maybe not the Unitarians or the Buddhist...

The Fish   I caught a tremendous fish  and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook  fast in a corner of his mouth.  He did...

Blogger Dennis G. at Balloon Juice nails it :  Look, I know that we face many difficult challenges. A lot of things have gone wrong and mo...

Peter      Strong and slippery,  built for the midnight grass-party  confronted by four cats, he sleeps his time away --  the detached fi...

Four Haiku      A balmy spring wind  Reminding me of something       I cannot recall.       The green cockleburrs  Caught in the thick...

A Study in Aesthetics  The very small children in patched clothing, Being smitten with an unusual wisdom, Stopped in their play as she pa...

Snow   The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was  Spawning snow and pink roses against it  Soundlessly collateral and incompa...