Poem of the Week:6/28/09-7/4/09

Posted on June 29, 2009 by the editor

This week’s poem of the week is Locksley Hall.

Rant of the Week: 6/28/09-7/4/09

Posted on June 29, 2009 by the editor

A rant bashing feminists who don’t like infrastructure projects is this week’s rant of the week.

Essay of the Week:6/28/09-7/4/09

Posted on June 29, 2009 by the editor

An explanation of why writing novels is an old man’s game is this week’s essay of the week.

Pigeons can be trained to like "good" art

Posted on June 28, 2009 by chicken man

This study reported on Discovery.com says that pigeons can be trained to pick out art their handlers think is good.

I think this is excellent news. Now we can put pigeons in school and let the kids run around in the park, and everyone will be better off. The kids can learn better things than mimickery and the pigeons can do as they are told.

Links For Today

Posted on June 26, 2009 by the editor

Citi has stopped accepting mortgage applications from mortgage bankers. Among the issues is appraisals which is supposedly the issue that is stooping the sale of a house near us.

A bunch of free home planning tools.

Cool pictures of volcano punching a whole in the sky.

One week until IOU’s.

Shine, Perishing Republic

Posted on June 21, 2009 by chicken man

You have to be careful of people who think that history cycles. A circle comes back to where it started. A swirl, on the other hand, has a beginning and an end. But a circle and a swirl are very similar so a description of one can greatly resemble the other.

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Robinson-Jeffers/3011

Poem of the Week: 6/21/09-6/27/09

Posted on June 21, 2009 by the editor

This week’s poem of the week is Waiting for the Barbarians. One would imagine that it loses something being translated into English, but there are only so many good English poets.