The debate over gay marriage is, perhaps, misguided.  Rather than extend the franchise, why not just scrap the practice?
I admit that I’m biased against marriage by observation of my parents.  It seemed to be an arrangement in which a male alcoholic slumped in a chair, binge-drinking and channel-surfing; he had a whistle around his neck to call an unhappy female, who waited on him […]

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“Animal Bird Fish” (Ed-U-Cards, 1959) offered a lovely deck of dignified depictions of various creatures.  I limit myself to one; I pick the parrot.
(Posted by Doug Skinner)

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If you want your work commercial,
Go for pseudo-controversial.
a musical phenakistascope: the notes move on the staff
a rodeo on the radio
Even as a child, I was baffled by the idea of Hell: how could fire hurt disembodied souls?
What a pretty puffin!
Polly want a muffin?
What a pretty quetzal!
Polly want a pretzel?
A stereoscopic panorama: the first image is […]

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