Month: October 2005

DeLay’s mugshot’s been posted!

this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters

cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.

image and poem below the fold

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

The man who call his indictments a “political witchhunt” has hired a Democrat to defend him!

I consider language to be the richest gift we as humans enjoy.  It goes way beyond simple communication.  Words themselves possess a certain power – they can transform the emotional landscape – create, destroy, caress – or pound someone senseless with the accumulated muscle of a thousand fists.  We treat words carelessly in American society.  Words and their applications are often considered trite and disposable, less human necessity and more French fry. The richness – the pure sensual pleasure that can derive from language craft has been demoted – kicked to the curb along with music as an unnecessary art – not essential to the continuation and promulgation of narrowly defined and increasingly jingoistic American standards and ideals.

Is it that we no longer read for pleasure anymore?

This months Mother Jones is dedicated to Ohio and all it’s glory.