ERIC CHAET Credit: U.S. Dept. of Transportation (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) Traffic starts rumbling outside my window before dawn first a train sounding its horn over &
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ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles One of my very favorite opening paragraphs of any novel is found in Dashiell Hammet’s Red Harvest: I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a
ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles Google admits it harbors within its databases everything you’ve ever done online. They call it efficiency and sensibility, and bringing relevancy to your information seeking.
ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles Credit: Einar Faanes I know a lot of you political junkies and newswire hellions consume dozens of ounces of thickly brewed coffee every day. Coffee is
William Heise sums it up: I don’t play the lottery, as I have always viewed it as a tax on
ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles One of mankind’s greatest historians and philosophers, Karl Marx, wrote: …if a surplus population of
Dan Rudy PORTLAND Oregon A lottery fever grips the nation, and about as tightly as millions
When there’s no difference between Domino’s Pizza, and one of the greatest poets to have ever lived, your society is
ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles In the head of Doctor Sarvis, who, in turn, resided in Edward Abbey’s head: Only
DONALD O’DONOVAN Los Angeles Nothing is so rare on the part of any man as an act of his own.