On August 13, four friends and I gave a poetry reading at Arts Upstairs in Phoenicia, New York. The event became an impromptu benefit for Doctors Without Borders. Below is the letter I wrote to the organization, along with a check for $50. Dear Doctors, My friend Alan Fliegel has been asking me […]
“Tender Buttons” by Gertrude Stein
I just read this book for the first time — in the Dover Books edition, I’m proud to say. Dover prints the cheapest versions of public domain classics, in Mineola, Long Island. This one has nice big print, and a serviceable, though vague — and unsigned — introduction. The cover, by Frank J. Moore, shows […]
AMANDA KNOX: “RAILROAD JOB FROM HELL NOW PROVEN!”
Consider the ramifications: What if lead Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini knew Rudy Guede committed the murder of Meredith Kercher before November 5th, 2007? What if Mignini went into the “interview” on November 5th, 2007 with premeditating the framing of Amanda Knox to cover for Rudy Guede? To some, this may sound impossible, to others; I am […]
Book Review: Overcoming Speechlessness by Alice Walker
Alice Walker’s recent book Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel weaves a collection of horrific tales with the lifelong activist’s wisdom and words of hope. This thin 75 page book (or booklet) is published by Seven Stories Press in 2010. Walker (no relation to me) starts the reader […]
Hezbollah and Hamas prevent return to pre-1967 Israeli borders
When President Barack Obama spoke of Israel returning to its 1967 pre-war borders, many within the intelligence, law enforcement and military communities believed he spoke from either ignorance of the recent history of the Middle East, or worse, he spoke from a position of loathing for the Jewish State. While many of Obama’s media cheerleaders, sycophants and supporters […]
Snowflakes in your hair
Do not forget to ask your guide to take you to the hot spring here. Chances are that, as you rejuvenate your tired limbs in the steaming open –air pool and look up the valley at Chango-Khang with a superb glacier descending to about 3,270 meters on its southern flank, drifting snowflakes will settle n […]
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