why English is hard to learn -continued

bead head bed heed

book spook

where whore

it's a wonder we can speak at all

when the indoor cat gets out - the world stops until he's found.

what in the world?

we watched the wars on tv. & we were angry.

we watch the world on YouTube & twitter. & we are angrier.

what's next?

implosion or explosion?

not news

wikileaks? meh

politics as unusual #2

we must believe our pres. knows more about being pres. than we do.

politics as unusual

does anyone remember when schools taught something called "civics"? that's where we learned how deh government was supposed to work. you know- 3 separate discrete divisions as a safe-guard for the over reaching of the others? we were taught that most decisions were made by negotiation & debate; that congress was elected to represent the needs of the people & to advocate for the "Folks back home". Compromise was not a dirty word, rather it was what happened when 2 opposing views heard each other with dignity & came to some sort of accommodation.

WHAT HAPPENED?

compromise is not a synonym for appeasement. there is room for middle ground. isn't there?

in the words of Mick Jagger: "you can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes..."

you know the rest.