Dan Manassas writes to me concerning Kent Hovind (aka Dr. Dino):
Dear scumy liberal, anti-Christian, pro-invasion lawyer,
I’m sick and tired of hearing you socialist secularist liberals complaining about us Christians running the government. It just isn’t true. George W. Bush may be a God-fearing Christian but he still sits on Caesar’s throne and Caesar is still [...]
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Modern Love: XXVI
by George Meredith (1828-1909)
Love ere he bleeds, an eagle in high skies,
Has earth beneath his wings: from reddened eve
He views the rosy dawn. In vain they weave
The fatal web below while far he flies.
But when the arrow strikes him, there’s a change.
He moves but in the track of his spent pain,
Whose red drops [...]
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The ImmigrationProf Blog (highly recommended) points to a fine article in Salon. On this day in 1868, the 14th Amendment became part of the Constitution.* The first paragraphs states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein [...]
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I Like Americans
by Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961)
I like Americans.
They are so unlike Canadians.
They do not take their policemen seriously.
They come to Montreal to drink.
Not to criticize.
They claim they won the war.
But they know at heart that they didn’t.
They have such respect for Englishmen.
They like to live abroad.
They do not brag about how they take baths.
But [...]
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One of the favorite talking points among the “build a fence, throw
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To My Dear and Loving Husband
by Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me, ye women, if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold
Or all the riches that the East cloth hold.
My [...]
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The Maldive Shark
by Herman Melville (1819-1891)
About the Shark, phlegmatical one,
Pale sot of the Maldive sea,
The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim,
How alert in attendance be.
From his saw-pit of mouth, from his charnel of maw,
They have nothing of harm to dread,
But liquidly glide on his ghastly flank
Or before his Gorgonian head;
Or lurk in the port of [...]
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The Baby’s Dance
by Ann Taylor (1782-1866)
Dance, little baby, dance up high:
Never mind, baby, mother is by;
Crow and caper, caper and crow,
There, little baby, there you go;
Up to the ceiling, down to the ground,
Backwards and forwards, round and round:
Then dance, little baby, and mother shall sing,
While the gay merry coral goes ding-a-ding, ding.
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After-Thought
by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide,
As being past away.
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i like my body when it is with your
by E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)
i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the [...]
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