Saturday, March 2, 2024
Friday, March 1, 2024
Is LONESOME DOVE a Sacred Text? - quatrain
Lawrence Hall, HSG
One of Texas’
Sacred Books
Taking an oath by placing one hand
On a copy of Lonesome Dove
Is not yet law in our sacred land
But by the Grace of God above…
Someday it might be
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Never Mind the Guns and the Drugs; Seize the Books - poem
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Never Mind the Guns
and the Drugs; Seize the Books
By
1938, the Nazis had banned eighteen categories of books,
4,175
titles, and the complete works of 565 authors…
-Molly Guptill Manning, When Books Went to War
Ideologues search libraries for dirty books
Because reading might give people ideas
And encourage them to think for themselves
Tyrants are threatened by words and ideas
Censors search Mary Poppins for dirty words
Because a wide vocabulary might give people ideas
And encourage them to think for themselves
Tyrants are threatened by words and ideas
In an era when even mere literacy is suspicious
Tyrants are threatened by words and ideas
How conservative and liberal book bans differ amid rise in
literary restrictions - ABC News (go.com)
The Spread of Book Banning - The New York Times
(nytimes.com)
States Tell SCOTUS That Social Media Censors Conservatives :
The NPR Politics Podcast : NPR
List of banned films - Wikipedia
Over 170 books banned from Florida school libraries
following new education reform - CBS News
Monday, February 26, 2024
What We All Need to Know About Fentanyl - a re-post
I almost never re-post but in the matter of children's lives this is important. The source is at the foot of the page:
Here’s what children need to know:
There is a poison killing 200 Americans of all ages, backgrounds, and races every single day. It’s called fentanyl. Most kids who die from it don’t even know they are taking it.
Drug dealers are selling fake pills, cocaine, and meth with fentanyl to boost their profits.
These fake pills look identical to the real ones—Xanax, Adderall, Oxycontin, Percocet, and others. You cannot see, smell, or taste fentanyl. Even DEA agents can’t tell the difference between what’s real and fake.
Do not accept any pill of any kind if it didn’t come from a doctor or pharmacist. Even if your best friend offers you a pill, they won’t know if it contains fentanyl.
In the age of fentanyl, your life will become a coin toss. Heads, you get high. Tails, you die. The only way to win this twisted game is to refuse to play.
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James Fishback is a writer for The Free Press. Follow him on Twitter @j_fishback. And read Sam Quinones’ recent piece, “Opioids Decimated a Kentucky Town. Recovering Addicts Are Saving It.”
Broccoli on the Primary Ballot - quatrain
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Broccoli on the Primary
Ballot
(As President Bush
maior did not say)
Broccoli, limp broccoli, that’s all I see
Just rotting broccoli all stink, stunk, stank
No real choices today, only broccoli –
The same old broccoli, putrid and rank
Sunday, February 25, 2024
The Dime-Store Philosophy of Kahlil Gibran - poem
Lawrence Hall, HSG
The Dime-Store
Philosophy of Kahlil Gibran
How The Prophet Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in
America ‹ Literary Hub (lithub.com)
The dime-store philosophy of Kahlil Gibran
(“Daddy,
what’s a dime-store? And what’s a dime?”)
Reposing mostly undisturbed on brick-and-board shelves
The free-verse love-salad of Rod McKuen
And Lord of the Rings in
50-cent paperbacks
The Seekers played over and over on the phonograph
(“Daddy,
what’s a phonograph? Is it something bad?”)
Have you heard The Mamas and the Papas’ latest single?
Peter, Paul & Mary in “stacks of wax”
Three-chord commandos in every coffee shop
Looking back - it wasn’t the greatest stuff
But for the time and place, it was good enough
Someone Along County Road 400 & County Dump Extension Has Done a Little Remodeling...
...and it looks nice, especially the blue carpeting. But please have your contractor swing back and pick up the unsecured debris that fell from his open trailer around midday on Saturday, 24 February.
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