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 […]

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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 […]

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