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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Justice Watch: Right-wing crankiness on full display

Justice Watch: Right-wing crankiness on full display: In his new book, The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court , Jeffrey Toobin writes that the dissent Justice Antonin Scalia wrot...

Friday, March 09, 2012

Hmm - I think I was Angry then...- a 'spare' poem from Aug 2009


Found this poem of mine from a very very bad period of grief, morass and depression. I'd just lost my sister, was losing my lover and had lost the use of my left hand - all in the same month. Was obviously tired of watching the TV in pain...Enjoy or shiver and feel cold and abandoned, whichever it leaves you:

Spare me…

your wasted judgments, and petty low-thinks,
haterisms, check me against the magazine,
the TV, the cable fixer-upper show, the internet a-list,
the talking heads of newsdom, where all the told news is old news - washed-rinsed-repeated into new news that
I can’t find any relevance in or make logic fit and sucks like slow sinks.

Spare me.

The lies of love and loving and my guilt stinks,
placaterisms, holds us in this old scene,
the bed empty even of politeness, and Oh, so full of loneliness,
our talking heads bobbing in cold silence, no news is good news, breaking up and making up is same news and
I can’t find myself between us or in you –as foreign to me as ice rinks.

Spare me…
of any responsibility…

From This-Is-True and Randy Cassingham

This is True®

by Randy Cassingham

Stories from My Archives ©1994-2025

Try, Try Again
A robber who hit a grocery store in Minneapolis, Minn., made the mistake of putting his gun on the counter so he could use both hands to scoop up the $2,000 in cash he got from the heist. As he was stuffing the money into a shopping bag featuring a Smiley Face, the clerk grabbed the gun, pointed it at the robber, and ordered him to leave. The robber did, but came back a few minutes later asking for his gun back. During the ensuing fight the robber’s mask came off and he fled a second time, again without his gun. Police arrived just as the robber was leaving. They charged Dantzler L. Thomas, 24, with aggravated robbery. Officers found a left glove in Thomas’s car; it matched a right glove left at the store. (Minneapolis Star Tribune) ...And I can’t help but picture that glove as being still wrapped around the gun.
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