“Everybody knows the boat is leaking/Everybody knows the captain lied” Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows” When the polls closed on Tuesday, November 5th, I was sound asleep, like a baby...

Edward Curtin “The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.” Karl Kraus, Half-Truths & One-and-a-Half Truths Things, possessions, life...

Edward Curtin “There’s a blaze of light in every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah” Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah The last time I was...

Philip Roddis And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon...

Edward Curtin Etymology – from Greek, etymos, true, real, actual (the study of roots) Life is full of slips. Words slip out of our mouths to surprise us.  Thoughts...

Hope K Rumor has it that Columbia College in Chicago was the last school Kanye West briefly attended before he released his debut album The College Dropout. Though I...

Edward Curtin And the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbor And she shows you where to look among the garbage and the flowers There...