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Poem – EQUUS & ANIMA (By Peter Taylor)
EQUUS & ANIMA November and I’m walking home after work, shortcut through the paddocks with a chill ground fog closing in around me, animals huddled together stare dull eyes in a dull light, mesmerized by their own breath. The field is a vision of hoar-frost and sculpture, necklaced with fences. Air so still I hardly notice them at […]
Read moreLightning Blamed for Reindeer Death
It’s not unusual to find animals that have been killed from lightning strikes, but climate change is making it worse. They found an entire herd of over 300 reindeer that were killed by a lightning strike in Norway. In the area where these reindeer were found lives about 10,000 reindeer and is considered to be the largest wild-reindeer range in […]
Read moreCartoon – Therapy
Goddess Kali Demands Human Sacrifice
To worship the goddess Kali sacrifices of goats, roosters, sugarcane and pumpkins are offered to celebrate the changing of the seasons. It has been reported that the sacrifice of a 25-year-old man was found in a remote village in the eastern part of India. The young man’s head had been severed and then he was adorned with red paint, dressed […]
Read moreThose who stand for nothing will fall for anything
“Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything.”
Read morePoem – RELEASE (By Roger Singer)
RELEASE – By Roger Singer Strong pulses water my eyes as I fail under collapse of trying to control, to stand or sit. My feet, weak, pull at my legs, like gravity forcing the moon to fall. The grief backed up my breaths, choking the air within me like cold thick soup. I gasped to free […]
Read moreDeepwater spill still killing fish
The oil released during the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster may damage fish populations in the Gulf of Mexico for years to come. New research from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that exposure to crude oil can cause heart defects in fish embryos—abnormalities that will likely kill many developing fish and shorten the lives of others. The study looked […]
Read moreCartoon – The Dumber Plumber
Poem – DO-OVER (By Ray Gallucci)
DO-OVER (Inspired while watching “United 93,” the one flight that was prevented by its heroic passengers from fulfilling its mission of murder on September 11, 2001) If you could go back To one time and place, Stop accursed attack On the human race, Could you simply choose (Knowing what you know) Holocaust of Jews? Nine-eleven’s blow? […]
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