A few months ago, I wrote this. I was trying to convince myself that inaction was justified in light of the absurdity of world events. I figured, at the time, that laughter would allow me to escape the bite of conscience — the feeling that there is work to be done (and that [...]

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Periodically, I forget who I am . . .
I forget how to hold the narrative together . . . and nothing makes sense . . .
When this happens, I don’t know how to remember . . .
There’s nothing but this . . . and I don’t know what this is . . [...]

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This is proof that global warming is not a neutral, periodically recurring phenomenon, and that the fossil fuel revolution has had a direct impact on global temperatures (see also, weather patterns).
It should be rather difficult for the Exxon/Mobil think-tanks to explain this away . . .

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(from www.democracynow.org)
“The Boston Globe is reporting 45,000 low income families in Massachusetts will soon start getting discounted home-heating oil from a subsidiary of the Venezuelan national oil company. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has offered to ship 285,000 barrels of oil to Massachusetts and sell it at a 40 percent discount. The deal was arranged by [...]

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I’ve been signing my name ever since.

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But I couldn’t help myself.

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“Mortal speech is a calling that names, a bidding which out of the simple onefold of the difference, bids thing and world to come. What is purely bidden in mortal speech is what is spoken in the poem. Poetry proper is never merely a higher mode of everyday language. It is rather the reverse: everyday [...]

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