chomsky in chains

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There's a line I'm rather fond of, by the American philosopher Richard Rorty: "thinghood itself is description-relative." ...

I just did some back of envelope rough estimate calculations to get a sense of how much CO2 emissions each of us is in some sense "enti...

My friend Dave Snodgrass has graciously consented to have me publish his poem about the Golden Plowman. Dave was a huge presence in the Cl...

by Dave Snodgrass There ain't no life, 'cept the one life you get; That's what you think about when you sit way up high an...

My friend the poet Maj Ragain has been a huge influence on poetry here in Northeast Ohio. It occurred to me the other day that he is under-...

by Maj Ragain In Olney, Illinois, the hillbilly ghetto, about a four block square, is named Goosenibble. Everybody in town knows the name; ...

I vaguely recall reading somewhere in Hegel "There is no freedom from law, only freedom through law." I can't find any sources...

Galton marks. Print dust. Chalk dust of 10 million algebra classes. White cliffs of Dover. The late cretaceous. Crispy critters. Critical th...

My chapbook "An Uncountable Infinity of Orgasms" was published a few days ago by NightBallet press. Many thanks for the diligent e...

The following post is just a bunch of links to Google image pages for different kinds of flowers referenced in a poem by Philip Levine, ...

Flowers Wisteria , plum trees , almond blossoms , iris , rose , tulip , poppy hillside , lupine , gorse , wild mustard

At its peak it was an annual Vietnam in America: 50,000 dead. In a year. And on an exponential growth curve. I think the hardest thing to ...

"Christians" like those of the Westboro Baptist Church should recognize they are allowed to spew their hateful anti-gay rhetoric o...

Almost gone the days of your childhood, almost gone, the wonder-eyed youth, when each minute reveals permanent magic, and nothing but fails ...

They want to put Ronald Reagan on Mount Rushmore. Ronald Reagan on Mount Rushmore. Ronald Reagan on Mount Rushmore? I mean, isn't that l...

What would I do with all that prodigal sunshine, day after changeless day, and the way it bleaches unliving colors to pastel? Far better to ...