GOP Nominee

Maybe the reason Republican candidates are so slow out of the starting gate is that the sooner there is a clear front-runner the sooner the Democrats can start demonizing him (or her) which they are very good at.

Free

Free advice:  Don't judge a posting by it's Title.

Real Clear Politics

I've been reading a bunch of opinion pieces and have concluded we should spend less time arguing about what is good for Democrats and what is good for Republicans and more time arguing about what is good for the country.  (And it is not more debt or commitments in Libya.)

Death

My younger brother died Tuesday making me the last survivor of five siblings.  It makes me feel so old.

My Poetry

SOLILOQUY


Contemplating inner spaces--empty aching inner places
where wellings should belong.
Examining faint feelings that elude my apprehending
like the title of a half-forgotten song.
Suspecting lack of motivation based on something being taken
from the pleasure centers of the mind;
taken from the driving will that kept me moving on until
I knew within myself I was alive.
Looking for a spark to kindle energy for some new passion,
some new way to spend a day that's not a task.
Pondering why there is no yearning that would guide me to a turning
from these tearful visions filtered from the past.
Searching for imagination that would lead to inspiration--
would lead to more than resignation, to more than marking time.
Days were meant for more that counting, years for more than passing,
time for more than filling with a rhyme.
But I do not find much comfort in the places where I seek it,
and when I sit and wait it doesn't come to me.
I surely hope my sorrow will be lightened on the morrow,
that there'll be a better cure for this ennui.

--Harlow B. Staley (c) Dec 9th, 1996