tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253904342009-11-11T16:00:03.456-06:00"The public and I have a firm understanding: <BR>they never hear what I say, and I never <BR>say what they want to hear."<BR> - Karl Kraus (1874-1936)HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03553867266653212081noreply@blogger.comBlogger986125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25390434.post-25040756993523780062009-11-11T15:26:00.005-06:002009-11-11T15:43:42.776-06:00

Today is Wednesday, 11 November 2009.91 anniversary of Armistice Day.Thanks, Belle Emily, for reminding me of this Mandy P. classic.Pardon me, if you get that ref, but ... when i was a draft resister, it was not only to try to stop the killing of the Indochinese civilians and soldiers, but for the useless dying of the American soldiers.I never hated the latter, nor wished them harm. Just wished

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Today is: What it is.This was a comment on blog today. Beautiful.I left my heart in Amherst has left a new comment on your post "Today is Tuesday, 10 November 2009. “Obscurity of...":“I am inexpressably sad for the friends and families who lost loved ones at Fort Hood.I find Emily's words peaceful and somehow comforting, despite the last strange image of the moss at their lips.[Well, I don’t get

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Today is Tuesday, 10 November 2009.“Obscurity of his very own”. A fine line.Well, “gracious”, as my grandmother said.The stupidity of guns. Let’s all thank the NRA, etc., You Know Whom You Are, for putting guns in the hands of this mentally ill guy, in, wouldn't one know, Texas.Having been, forgive me, once upon a time, a “pastor”, “minister”, what have you, I have seen more than my share of the

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Today is Friday, 6 November 2009. Whatever the reason, yesterday at Fort Hood.For the Union Deadby Robert Lowell"Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam."The old South Boston Aquarium standsin a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows are boarded.The bronze weathervane cod has lost half its scales.The airy tanks are dry.Once my nose crawled like a snail on the glass;my hand tingledto burst the

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Today is Wednesday, 4 November 2009.WE INTERRUPT OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING.Just brought to my attention that this is the 20th anniversary of the debut of Wallace and Gromit.Alas, all embedding of their original work is prohibited, so, herewith, a fan’s homage.This one’s for Field Marshal Beth, Supremo of the Army of General Indignation.

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Today is Wednesday, 4 November 2009.PART OF THE REASON I'VE BEEN ABSENTI’m 57, and have had arthritis since I was 20. I love autumn, and, every October, the transition of seasons plays particular wicked with my joints, particularly my back. Who feels like writing? And now, I think of the Third World.Chronic pain, which I have, to greater or lesser degree, about 66% of the day … for lack of a

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Today is Saturday, 24 October 2009.

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Today is Thursday, 22 October 2009.Sparing you sad specifics:Two days ago,We rushed my beloved Sophie,Dachsund, small and black,With mighty opinions, well-voiced,To the vet, suffering from a protozoan illness -Protozoa encover the world.Happens to all mammals,Including thee and me.They live on our hands.It was grim,sparing you sad specifics,but she is well.Frequently, surely, I have since heard,

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Today is Monday, 12 October 2009.Clif S. G., dear friend of HH and Ms. HH, best friend for 57 years of Ms. HH's father, this date died, aged 95. Born a few days before World War One commenced, once thought to be The Great War.Chemical engineer, holder of 18 patents. B.S.E ’36, M.S. ’37, Ph.D. ’65, all University of Michigan.Lieutenant-Commander, United States Navy, in World War Two.Generous to

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Today is Friday, 9 October 2009.On this date in 1940, John Lennon was born.On this date in 1967, Che Guevara was assassinated by Bolivian soldiers. The best evidence indicates the murder was ordered by CIA.The Museum of the Bourgeois salutes them.Presente!

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Today is Thursday, 8 October 2009.Some figures in the arts argue that Roman Polanski should be relieved of further legal jeopardy in the rape of a 13-year-old, on the grounds of his cultural contributions.Others decry this position as elitist.The latter public figures are frequently, if not usually, right-wingers of an anti-intellectual, nekulturny bias. Their argument might carry more weight

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Today is Wednesday, 7 October 2009.On this date in 2001, eight long years ago, the USA/USE conquest of Afghanistan began.Afghanistan is in worse shape now than then, thanks to W. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and thousands upon thousands of Republican supporters, all eagerly embracing a Napoleon complex, and too early fitting themselves for crowns.These thugs wanted to conquer Afghanistan swiftly

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Today is Tuesday, 6 October 2009.New Federal Trade Commission rules to take effect on 1 December will require all bloggers endorsing products to disclose all compensation received, including free samples. While MoB hasn’t yet endorsed much beyond anarcho-socialism, we keep an open mind.Blandishments we might enjoy: a 1959 Jaguar (with complete pre-paid upkeep plan), caviar (the pound-a-month gift

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Today is Sunday, 4 October 2009.On this date in 1957, Sputnik 1 began orbiting the Earth, the first human artifact to do so.Here's a recording of its transmission:______________________________________________The Museum of the Bourgeois congratulates the Panhellenic Socialist Movement on its resounding victory in the Greek parliamentary elections.

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Today is Saturday, 3 October 2009.On this date in 1955, Captain Kangaroo debuted.A Boomer reference:The column title is a reference to Hal Moore's book about the Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam, 14-16 November 1965, We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young.On this date in 1942, a V-2/A4 rocket, launched by Nazi Germany, became the first human artifact to reach outer space.

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Today is Friday, 2 October 2009.In Brazil, at least 25% of the people live below the poverty line in misery.In Brazil, at least another 25% of the people live hand-to-mouth in misery.The government of Brazil has chosen to piss away billions of dollars of the people’s money to provide the First World the chance to party at and profit from the advertising orgy of the 2016 Summer Olympics.Shame on

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Today is Thursday, 1 October 2009.On this date in 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People’s Republic of China.Unfortunately for the Chinese people, although Mao had clawed his way to the top of the Chinese Communist Party, he wasn’t a socialist, nor a Marxist, nor a communist, but merely an old-fashioned opportunistic adventurer, lusting after power and privilege. Mao’s

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Today is Wednesday, 30 September 2009.I’m tempted to start referring to Obama as “BHO”, a reference to LBJ and Vietnam, but I think I’ll wait until he issues his strategy for Afghanistan, which of course he should have had ready on Day One. After all, he’d been contemplating becoming president for years.I’m not optimistic, particularly with today’s news that Ban Ki-moon, the buffoon and hack

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Today is Tuesday, 29 September 2009.The army and police of the Republic of Guinea yesterday assassinated at least 200 protestors objecting to the dictator Camara’s plans to run for "elected" President. Hundreds of women were molested, raped, or kidnapped.On 23 December 2008, six hours after state radio reported the death of the previous military dictator, Lansana Conte, Captain Moussa Dadis

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Today is Monday, 28 September 2009.William Safire, speechwriter to Richard M. Nixon, is dead at 79.Safire was the man who wrote, for the disgraced bribe-taker Spiro Agnew, such immortal phrases as “nattering nabobs of negativism” and “hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history“, then later marketed himself as the Guardian of All Which Is Sacred and Holy in Language.Safire defended Nixon

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Today is Saturday, 26 September 2009.On this date in 1774, the proto-environmentalist John Chapman was born. Better known as “Johnny Appleseed”, he introduced apple trees to parts of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.On this date in 1888, poet and anti-Semite T. S. Eliot was born. Despite Eliot’s bigotry and pseudo-Anglo airs, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock“ remains a great poem.On this date in

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Today is Thursday, 24 September 2009.Despite many flaws, the comedy routine that “Colonel” Muammar al-Khadaffy, evita peronista dictator of Libya, debuted before the UN General Assembly yesterday wasn’t a total bomb.For starters, that hair, that Superman hair! “Paint it black!” as the Stones sang. I understand it’s done by the same technician who did Reagan. And maybe a lady in the audience can

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Today is Tuesday, 22 September 2009.Some eventful days recently, here at the Museum, and I’m still trying to up catch.Our elder Weimaraner, Lyntl, 14, had a mysterious sudden drop in blood pressure that knocked her for a loop. Still not certain what caused it, but our wonderful vet orchestrated a medicine regimen that has her back to frisky normal.Our younger Weimar, Shelley, 11, had a tumor

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Today is Sunday, 20 September 2009.Proposal being debated: That all Americans shall be required by law to purchase health insurance. Those failing to comply would be fined.Desperate tea bummers claim: fines would be a hidden tax, and therefore EVIL!Current situation: it is illegal to exceed speed limit while driving, and the consequence is often a fine.Question to desperate tea bummers: is a fine

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Today is Friday, 18 September 2009.It's 2.55am, and it would be much funnier if this country weren't 37th in health care.

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