Washington, D.C. January 28, 2006. Homeland Security Chief, Michael Chertoff, announced the formation of the Fact Checkers Association. Staffed primarily by people with MFAs and English degrees, the FCA will be on the front lines of the information wars, screening thousands of websites, blogs, memoirs, documentaries, pamphlets, leaflets, and reality TV shows to [...]

The Bush Administration took four years to develop and then introduce a program to address a projected shortfall in Social Security funds in the year 2045.
Here is George Bush in a rare public discussion, unteleprompted, last February, trying to explain what his own administration proposed. This is taken right off the [...]

In a surprise announcement this morning, Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, called for the purchase of 200,000 sets of medieval body armor. “You didn’t see Mel Gibson in Braveheart getting blown up by insurgents,” the Secretary said from the Pentagon.
Senator John Warner, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee was caught off guard [...]

The intelligent design versus evolution debate between Kile Smith and Bob Gallagher rages unabated in the Readers Forum portion of this website. It’s quite interesting and also amazing how much energy these guys have. I have the feeling they’d welcome any readers who care to jump in with their views or another [...]

Poets are always looking for new tricks (starters) to get their word juices going. Found poems are made up of phrases selected at random from advertisements, cheesy magazines, pulp fiction, television shows, children playing, mixed with intended lines. They can be very cool. My friend Molly was writing them for a while.
Lately, [...]

Here are first, second and third place in the City Paper 20th Annual Writing Contest. It’s hard to do anything in 1000 words. These folks did a good job. (As a judge, I got to quip in the little box on the side)