The Primal Screed

Could a historiographer drive on his history, as a muleteer drives on his mule, he might foretell when he should get to journey's end; but the thing is impossible: For, if he is a man of the least spirit, he will have various Accounts to reconcile: Anecdotes to pick up: Inscriptions to make out: Stories to weave in: Traditions to sift: Personages to call upon: Panegyricks to paste up at this door; Pasquinades at that: All which both the man and his mule are quite exempt from. --L. Sterne

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Monday, May 08, 2006

Poem of Hope


                                                                        Berlusconi,
Bush and Tony,
cool and clever,
there for ever.

So they thought,
but

Berlusconi
got the push.
So will Tony.
So will Bush.

--Michael Swan, Cambridge, England

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--Irish-heritaged eldest son of a civil-libertarian ex-Marine economist and an artistic, activist librarian, I am a Southern Catholic leftist who served in the 22,973rd Irregular Non-uniformed Unregistered Antiwar Conspiracy Cohort stationed on detached duty in Houston, Toronto, Austin, Purcellville, Lovettsville, Middleburg and Mt. Pleasant from 1967 to 1977, some of it under Sen. Eugene McCarthy (DFL-MN). I helped found Pacifica’s KPFT in Houston just in time for its transmitters to be twice blown up by the police, er, Klan. My work has been published in the Texas Observer and the Progressive Populist. I was recalled to the 22,973rd's honorable colors in dismay at the Democrats’ sorry inability to resist the Iraq war. I have an irrefutable economic motive for using a pseudonym. Any impression of modesty this might give is doubtless exaggerated.

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