August
August is a dramatic month. Humidity is a form of madness. Writing is a form of suicide. The temptation to talk like this, in short clips, is overwhelming. Short sentences are like raindrops: loud, splashy, and desirable.
-- Andre Codrescu, A Craving for Swan (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1986), 33.
Pacifica
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Tomcats
This arrived. 4 immediately it began so to yell, that it first of all immediately went to give to me foods. It devoured.
Then this began to obtain sour cream. 4 again to yell. It gave spoon to me, I ate. Again it began to yell and to arise to this - let still it give. This, fool, was inclined toward me with the entire jar. 4 not dogs are any at the spoon to look, when jar next. This hardly had time it to jerk back, reptile.
Guantanamo Suicides “Acts of Warâ€
Guantanamo Suicides “Acts of War” — BBC, June 11, 2006:
The suicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amount to acts of war, the US military says.
The camp commander said the two Saudis and a Yemeni were “committed” and had killed themselves in “an act of asymmetric warfare waged against us”.
Lawyers said the men who hanged themselves had been driven by despair.
A military investigation into the deaths is now under way, amid growing calls for the detention centre to be moved or closed. . . .
Rear Adm Harris said he did not believe the men had killed themselves out of despair.
“They are smart. They are creative, they are committed,” he said.
“They have no regard for life, either ours or their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.”
All three men had previously taken part in some of the mass on-and-off hunger strikes undertaken by detainees since last August, and all three had been force-fed by camp authorities.
They had left suicide notes, but no details have been made available.
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Presidents
The First Thirteen Presidents
From General George to Millard, all
Owned slaves, except for two:
Those Massachusetts liberals
John (senior) and John (Q.).
Evil Macy’s
Pride and Prejudice: Macy’s Yanks Gay Display (Boston Herald)
Macy’s Removes Display Marking Local Gay Pride Week (Boston Globe)
