I am not alone in this but this time around I will remember a friend who died while serving in the Army. His name is Roy Zimmerman and he died on November 13, 1991 during a nighttime exercise in South Korea.

I recall an summer evening in 1990 when I was wandering around drunk with my friend Jim Ruble through the streets of New Brunswick in New Jersey. Always having beers on us on these strolls and knowing the open container laws we lamented that there might inevitably be a price to pay the local judge […]

Some people might find it appalling that we pay a man two dollars to clean our son’s dirty diapers, or maybe shocked to learn that he’s a heroin addict. I was my own version of shocked and appalled, but I am over it. Itís Tanzania, and I donít know if the rules are different, but […]

CHICKEN HAIKU NO. 2
go to the whiteness
so obscure in the dark clouds
the chicken schmokes up
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery
Edward W. Place Jr.
In a sense you could say we’re late to the dance with our entry into the blogging commons (I’m certainly late with my first offering). But late is a way of life […]

bon soir/bon jour …… it’s either one depending on where you are (facile eh?)

I chose to write about our foolish leader because for a while now an inevitable moment happens when discussing politics with different folks. They are either Bush supporters or indifferent in many ways to politics so do not think the president is that bad and want to know exactly why I think he is […]

Witness the Chicken
Soft alone dreaming whiteness
How dark the nighttime

The Central Intelligence Agency made a surprising announcement today that it was adding itself to the list of U.S. Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The announcement was made today by CIA Director Porter Goss during a routine press conference discussing allegations of torture.

Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. This is the price that must be paid for the passions of this earth.