"you bred raptors?"

what the Straight Talk Express won't tell you

It's nice that Obama is getting so much media coverage, but it also means that not only are flaws getting a lot of that attention, but also that McCain as a candidate is not being paid much mind, which is a lot more dangerous than one might think. I have a lot of issues with McCain, but this sums them up pretty neatly. Everyone voting in the election this fall should really read it.

http://pol.moveon.org/mccain10/email.html?rc=homepage


And, a follow-up on his stance on women's rights:

http://www.sptimes.com/2008/03/09/Opinion/Why_McCain_should_wor.shtml

oh, p.s. If you've seen that new "Celeb" ad of McCain's--well, the factuality of it is what I've come to expect from his campaign.

something to keep in mind?

What do you love about your life? @ Yahoo! Video

This is how it works:

Let's crumple calendars, smash watches.

Let's throw ropes around the Moon,
never stop swallowing its linens.

Let's recline the way the horizon does,
every evening, yawning across Tropic lines.

Let's fill a hammock with limes.

Let's fall asleep on the reef,
stare up through clear water at trembling stars.

Let's climb a coconut tree & squeal like monkeys.

Let's ride a trade wind like paper airplanes.

Let's watch the sky wheel & wheel
from under straw hats.

Let's count a billion stars,
lose track at a billion minus one, then start over,
until we glitter with white sand.

Let's tumble together until the earth is flat.

Let me sail like Magellan into you,
unfold the maps of your roundness.

Let's hope for the volcano.

Let's reinvent the godless universe ballooning.

Let's crawl into a conch shell
& bang on a bongo.

Let's build a bonfire
that boils away the atmosphere.

Let's sublimate, evaporate, condense.

Let's get drunk on the real stars—
helium engines strumming
our own cores to a glow.

Let me wear your warm skin.

Let's simplify: skin, nerve, synapse, nucleus,
hydrogen, quark, the unpronounceable...

--Poem of Low Latitudes
Mike Dockins