A late night case of the hiccups has me blogging late into the night.

Here's a historical hiccup featured in my hometown newspaper. Strom Thurmond, the racist fuck, then 23, fathered a child with his family's 16-year old maid. (Question: did the Black mother of this child have a choice to fend off the advances of this man? Was it love, power, or some confabulation of the two?).

I have no sympathy for that racist fuck, no matter what his never-acknowledged daughter says. Fuck him. May he rot in hell forever.

But, God, forgive me for my sins.

Although I often skim their site, I don't think I ever cited them before. Seems a crazy enough place to start.

synergesis(haikus)
a.
we hung out, twenty-
somethings, days of headiness;
hip as hip can be.
b.
thirty-something crept
up faster than life-changing
decisions to wed.

Found out today that yet another friend-couple has bought a house in our neighborhood. Cool enough for me. We can all be in this debt thing together. No more need to congregate at a renter's crib-- we're all owners now!

Crazy.

Crazy Stuff

#1: Terry Shiavo
The Republican-controlled congress (lower-case "c" intended) has supbpoenaed a brain-dead woman. Visualize success: a brain-dead woman, in those hallowed halls, being interrogated. For background, check out these folks: AP story; the Rude Pundit (3/18/05); and Majikthise (3/9/05).

#2: Steroids
Why the hell do we need anyone in congress (again, lower-case "c" intended) to ask a bunch of jocks whether or not they used steroids? And why confine the testimony to baseball players? No track-and-field folks? No football players? No professional wrestlers?
Since we're so concerned about people's biochemical purity, how 'bout we have hearings on which congressmen use Viagra to shag interns?

#3: My Hometown
San Diego's bishop denied funeral rights to a devout catholic (another lower-case "c", intended) because he ran two gay bars. Nice. Check the story here (3/18/05 posts). Scroll through the comments, too.

#4: Balls Like a Motherf*cker
Paul Wolfowitz to head the World Bank? John Bolton(3/10/05 and 3/9/05 posts) at the UN? Alberto Gonzales at the Dept. of Justice? (As Dave Chapelle would say) "Cunnilingus" Rice at State? (I never liked her at Stanford, either). I won't even bother linking to anything about her.

#5: The Blogosphere
Even though reading blogs gives me more reasons to bang my head against the wall-- thanks, God. Where else would I read about all this crazy stuff?

"5000"

Sometimes I just get a jones for Ras Kass.

On another note, I couldn't help shaking my head at the headline of today's Post Express edition-- Battlefield Lebanon: Bush touts gains in Mideast democracy; nearly 500,000 denounce U.S. in Beirut rally".

That's only 430,000 more people than last Monday's rally to get Syria out of Lebanon.

I'll forego sarcasm and just re-state the numbers:
Monday, 70 thousand folks demonstrated against Syria's influence and presence in Lebanon
Tuesday, 500 thousand folks demonstrated against U.S. policies in the Mideast.

"The Bush administration brushed aside anti-American sentiment, saying it was happy to see people peacefully express their views".

I'm not making this up. I'm refraining from sarcasm. My country, the one in which I just bought a house, elected this man to a second term of office.

I find solace in the fact we're a constitutional democracy with Presidential term limits.

Two pieces from November 2004

1. (fragment)
I am the Black infant
mortality rate, more elusive
than census data portends
with tallies of death
per capita; I am

death in perpetuity.

breast-fed memories of
wet-nursing master's heir,
weaned at first breath
to hold my tongue and
swallow bitter milk

like it was honey.

2. Augusta(haiku)
inky starlit sky
seeping through Georgia pine, trees
sway rapturously

Words learned while reading Colson Whitehead (- Kai, check out his 13 essays about New York).

epigonic
carapace
recondite
appurtenance
plangent
funicular
adumbrate