Body and (vs?) Soul

The chick flicks they show at the plex
Are concerned with much more than mere sex
Such as touching and feeling
And the triumph of healing
But it helps if the hero's got pecs.

Phantasies

Rupert Murdoch held a fund-raiser for Hillary some time back, and has contributed to her campaign. Why?!! Is there a chance at some point we could hear him say, "I did not have sex with that woman."

Scott McCLellan says he was lied to and unwittingly lied to all of us. With civil liberties going down the tubes, isn't there a court somewhere that might say, "Ignorance of the truth is no excuse."?

Huckabee is gaining ground in Iowa, despite his "rock n'roll background. This is a chance to turn the Presidential race into "American Idol." What is Hillary's talent? Obama's? Do we give them immunity challenges? I don't care if I'm mixing my metaphors and talent shows. I just want to know soon we can vote them off the island.

Truth and Beauty

Kanye West's mother has died after, or while, undergoing cosmetic surgery. Sad, yet wonderful and appropriate. All deaths are sad, but for an English teacher to die from cosmetic surgery is wonderful and appropriate because it is dying for beauty. Beauty is truth and truth is beauty, as Keats tells us "Grecian Urn." What could be better than an English teacher dying for either one? I hope my own exit is so poetic.

Stevens and Stein

Upon hearing the news that Hillary is using audience plants to lob softball questions her way (a Republican trick, in the Gannon-Guckert mode) I thought, "Who can I turn to to explain my simultaneous disgust and delight, Mike?" Turn to the poets, sez I, turn to your favorite poets, and examine your conscience. My conscience, Wallace Stevens and Gertrude Stein came up with, "Schadenfreude is my ice cream."