Poems
The Firmest Embrace
I fought the firmest embrace And lost. No brethren left to share my burden, The yoke’s mark rests on my back alone. Released from an overlong cell, So afraid to leave, The sun dazzles. The […]
Month: September 2012
Essays & Opinion
47% Agree: Romney’s Maths Stink
Before you leap up in fury, let me start by saying I am not going to mention taxes, or entitlements, or anything like that. There is no need. Whenever a politician enters a two-horse race […]
Poems
The Spectrum of a Woman
The semantics of colour Is known to many lovers Watch pink stick fill lips And how that black dress Elides your hips Brush back platinum blonde To hang gold from Flesh holes Black stockings ascend […]
Essays & Opinion
Why Predistribution Makes Miliband Prediculous
Please let me make a prediction about ‘predistribution’, a solution to Britain’s economic and social woes, as explained by Labour Leader Ed Miliband this week. As he put it: We need to care about predistribution […]
Essays & Opinion
What Clint Should Have Said
The problem with being partisan is that it forces you to be wrong some of the time. There is no need to be political to understand the truth of this. People make mistakes. Organizations make […]