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From the Guardian, via Book Ninja. Inmates in Guantanamo write poems, and the American Government reacts predictably. Wow.
…the Pentagon has refused to declassify many of their words, arguing that poetry “presents a special risk” to national security because of its “content and format”.
‘Inside the wire’ | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books

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From the archives at the Science Creative Quarterly, for your reading pleasure:
January 17, 2005 I received the syllabus for my Humanities course. A humanities course should not be required for my B.Sc degree in Physics. To add insult to injury, we are supposed to do an analysis of Well’s The Time Machine. We are to […]

Happy New Years!  The Nisga’a New Year, Hobiyee, is celebrated at the end of February every year, just before the Oolichans’ arrival signals the beginning of spring.  This is our third year attending Hobiyee, although the kids didn’t dance this year.  Due to real life being crazy, the Badger spent the most time there, videotaping […]

Well, the Badger collects 419 scams, so why shouldn’t I have some fun with spam too. What I love are the amazing generated sentences that sometime show up in the e-mail- they sometimes border on poetry.
Walking is a vanishing among the shrubs. We grabbed up our packs and followed.
But recently, a new breed has […]

or, when is it NOT okay to use a cliffhanger.
I recently finished a sci-fi/fantasy series of paperbacks which I purchased with part of my book inventory largesse. I bought them for a few very good reasons. The blurb on the back sounded good and escapist (it is winter), the covers were nice, and […]

Okay- this has so happened at my house.  Pretty much word-for-word.

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As anyone knows who has lived far enough north, January is the month of ‘just making it through the winter’, and February is the month to start dreaming of spring, even though there are still 13 weeks until the last frost. And so it is. This month I […]