Category: Ethics
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Reveling in the Sickness
Reveling in the Sickness eye for an eye justicethe hallmark of authoritarians:fascists, one-true-faithists,and patriots of any stripe ‘conservative values’the worship of authorityand fear of changepunish anything different only appropriate punishmentsfor any infractions are oldtestament eye for an eyeand death as the kool aid drinkersrevel in the sicknesshanging and burningthose of us who resist who see…
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Last-Minute Message for a Time Capsule
Last-Minute Message for a Time Capsuleby Philip Appleman I have to tell you this, whoever you are:that on one summer morning here, the oceanpounded in on tumbledown breakers,a south wind, bustling along the shore,whipped the froth into little rainbows,and a reckless gull swept down the beachas if to fly were everything it needed.I thought of…
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This Is The Life
This Is the Lifeby Amy Macdonald Oh, the wind whistles downThe cold dark street tonightAnd the people, they were dancingTo the music vibe And the boys chase the girls with curls in their hairWhile the shy tormented youth sit way over thereAnd the songs get louder each one better than before And you’re singing the…
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Hats
Hats (Good guys wear black… I mean white…I mean black… I mean…) How many hats can anyone wear?Then again, who really cares?But if you’re one of the caring few,Consider the consequence of those we choose. No matter what your current hatIt’s worn in shades of white through black.Most are worn in these shades of gray.It’s…
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Life In Ashland KY (a short outling) – Memoir Continued
Life in Ashland (a short outline) – Memoir Continued The first few months of my being in Ashland were eventful. Once I unloaded and dropped the truck and car dolly off at the local U-Haul lot, most of my time was spent settling in. Then, there was quite a bit of maintenance and yard work…
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Quantum-verse
Quantum-verse What is reality,shadow photons or the seen?Shades of multiverse. Quantum thought is strange.Speaks of dimensionality shifts –freaks-out common sense. So, what is our life,simple or complex So fundamental,so complex we can’t understand,energy only? –LE – an old one from the early 2010’s
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St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day A brewer’s success taleIn shades of kelley greenAnd Black and Tan’s brownGreen beer in pubs all around Too many claim Irish for the dayToo many Kiss me, I’m Irish teesSt. Patty’s Day parades aboundUsually, a huge letdown And the snakes he drove outOf the emerald IslesAbound everywhere elseHe left strife north and…
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Ode to the First Dandelion of Spring
Ode to the First Dandelion of Spring There you sit all alone,between walk and stairsBut worry not, the spring is newand we’ll soon be trippingover every kind,all bathed in dew. Too soon, your golden maneturns puffy white,as your seeds inherit the earth,at least till the next polar vortexsends them dormant … again. Or until Nature’s…
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In My Own Mind
In My Own Mindby Lyle Lovett I get up in the morningDrink a cup of coffeeI look out of the windowI try to get it startedI turn it all overPlow it all underI plant ’em in the springtimePick ’em in the summer I live in my own mindAin’t nothin but a good timeNo rain just…
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Retirement – Moved to Ashland KY – Memoir Continued
Retirement – Moved to Ashland KY 1/15/2010 Tina retired around her birthday in 2009. She sold her house and bought one in Ashland, KY. Her daughter, Robin, was living close to Ashland, just outside Huntington WV at the time. So, over the last year before she retired, we had taken a few weekend trips to…
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