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Synapses and Ganglia

Synapses and Ganglia

Wednesday’s poetry rendering Synapses and Ganglia What demon incarnation is this That strides back and forth Over the world, steps across oceans,  Traverses mountains and continents,  Tempts man with gifts, fears, anger, and rage, Persuades to lust and jealousy,  To theft and fraud and mendacity, Who stands bestride the world  Crowned in cruelty and brutality? […]

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Wednesday Poetry Rendering

Wednesday Poetry Rendering

The Space Between                     by Phil Cline The space between is where life is,  Where emotion is, where feeling Is, The space Between fists raised in furious rage,  Held, poised, awaiting,  Brutality’s rapture, And  Poor arms pale, splayed Underneath. Weak,  Inadequate.   In that space Between.  In that, time, no time,  Before the hit  Where Dread resides,  […]

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Cline on the Constitution – Interpretation

Cline on the Constitution – Interpretation

In November, President Trump referred to a federal District Court Judge as an “Obama judge.”  Uncharacteristically, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, rebutted the President in a public statement.  He said, “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges, . . . (an) independent judiciary is something we should […]

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Reckless Kings

Reckless Kings

Nothingness to nothing, Returned my King.  Reckless his good deeds,  Legend his evil deeds, Augmented, layer by layer, atop Vaults too deep for excavation, among Rows of tombs, Subterranean  Cellars, protected  From jocund birds, raucous, Gossiping in the tree tops Amid mornings aborning.  Returned my King, Nothingness to nothing. Vexed by bumps and bruises, Staggered […]

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Electoral College

Electoral College

The Electoral College In the last segment I addressed the proposal by some candidates for the Presidency to pack the Supreme court. In this segment I will discuss the Electoral College.  There are various proposals by the same candidates to modify it or eliminate it altogether.  While any proposal to change the Constitution or amend it should […]

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