A New Word
I ran across a new word today.It isn't something that occurs as often as it did as when I was a child. Then I was surrounded by a polyglot of vowels and consonants arranged in manners I had never...
View ArticleH8360 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE December 3, 2014
NO INDICTMENT IN ERIC GARNER’S CHOKE HOLD CASEThe SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. BRAT). Under the Speaker’s announced policy of January 3, 2013, the Chair recognizes the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. JOHNSON)...
View ArticleTell Me About the First Christmas You Worked
In this day and age when more than half the American population is under economic distress the concept of working Christmas isn't even an option. Most employers inform them verbally that they will be...
View ArticleI don't like music remakes, but...
As a child there was a movie most of us are familiar with by the name of Grease. A musical, which were usually forbidden to me lest I catch the Ghey inherent in musicals, about high school love. I...
View ArticleBoycott Jamaica
TRIGGER WARNING after the fold. Tourism is tied with remittances as Jamaica's top source of revenue. The tourism industry earns over 50 percent of the country's total foreign exchange earnings and...
View ArticleBREAKING: Houston Ship Collision and Chemical Spill
This is breaking so I will add as information flows in.The U.S. Coast Guard says their first priority is immediate response to any risk of fire or explosion from vapors and human health protection...
View ArticleDespicable Racist City Manager Resigns
FERGUSON, Mo. — The city manager of Ferguson, Mo., who a Department of Justice report said was responsible for overseeing the city’s operations as it engaged in racially biased and unconstitutional...
View ArticleMy Statement re: HB2307 Conversion Therapy Ban in the State of Oregon
I am a mess at the moment, but this is vitally important to me. I have been getting very little sleep, and too much exercise and rain while without shelter. I'm in Salem today after biking down...
View ArticleWet, cold, and tired-Thank You
I'm in desperate need of a bed or at least a roof and warmth, a shower and to wash my clothes.I can handle these issues as they occur only without complications. In my case the complication is a foot...
View ArticleFYI
Commonmass just told me someone is using my gmail account and telling him my main focus is my transtion. Since most of my transtion occured in 2000 when I changed my name on my ID, those of you that...
View ArticleSelf Publishing 101: Kindle Direct Publishing
Hi all- this is akadjian. Horace Boothroyd III hopped on our thread last week and mentioned his Kindle chapbook on Kurt Vonnegut's final work: Chap Book Review: Armageddon in Retropect. I thought it...
View ArticleI Haz Book-Let Me Write More
I wrote a chapbook called Chap Book Review: Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut. This is a review of Vonnegut's unpublished works published posthumously.Sales have been abysmal. I need to raise...
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