Category Archives: Art
Poem of the Week: 11/1/09-11/7/09
This week’s poem of the week is “Epistle (to the author of The Three Impostors)” by Voltaire. This poem has widely quoted line “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him” in it. It is presented for education rather than for your enjoyment.
By reading it, you will come to understand to thing about Voltaire. He was smart and he was full of himself.
Poem of the Week: 10/25/09-10/31/09
Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad? by William Butler Yeats is this week’s poem of the week.
Poem of the Week: 10/18/09-10/24/98
Poem of The Week: 10/11/09-10/17/09
This week’s poem of the week is Variations of an Air.
Links For Today
Cool Pictures of old Russian homes.
Its working out so well for them, let us do it here.
Conspiracy theories abound. Most likely the story is false. In fact, the dollar fall probably would have happened without the story. But the fact that the story is getting so much press time shows how ready to panic people are. Just think about how they are going to panic when they have more then just a rumor to go on.
Poem of the Week: 9/4/09-9/10/09
Posts from the Ethereal Land
Due to upgrade in the software, post from around the Ethereal Land are not being automatically pulled like they use to be. Here is a couple of the more noteworthy ones that have been missed.
Gifted (Chicken Man)
The Empty Couch (The Silverware Thief)
Assumptions make a fool out of you (Ape Man)
Of course, many others are not being pulled. Maybe we will get that fixed one day.
Poem of the Week: 9/20/09-9/26/09
This week’s essay of the week calls to mind Kipling’s poem “The White Man’s Burden” in a very ironic way.