Brotherhood of Romantics: Neptune in Pisces Redux

Daydreaming by DG RossettiLondon 1848: capital of the largest empire the world has ever seen, a city where the rich live in lace and cream and fripperies, children work as chimney sweeps and bootblacks, where the streets run with sewage, and where e…

Seriously: Who Takes "President Trump" Seriously?

A recent poll suggests that someone does take NYC’s serial-bankrupt mogul seriously in his bid for the US presidency in 2012.Not that there’s anything intrinsically wrong with bankruptcy with its safety valve capacity, of course: except that when it’s done on that level of a playing field (where the wheeler-dealers scamper while risking other people’s money), a definite whiff of scalliwaggedness

Wisconsin: 19 counties flip for Dems in Supreme Court Race!

Hurrah, Wisconsin!19 Counties Flip To Democrats In Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Significantly, 19 counties that went for Walker in the 2010 elections this time flipped and went for Kloppenburg, including LaCrosse (59 percent), Sauk (56 percent) and Dunn (56 percent). Nearly 1.5 million people turned out to vote, representing 33.5 percent of voting-age adults — 68 percent higher than the 20

In the Lap of the King

Hmmm, the title sounds a little X rated, but the subject is far from it!
As I write the Sun has just passed being exactly conjunct Jupiter. This is called cazimi and for a planet to be cazimi the Sun is about as good as it gets. This is even more so fo…

Poetry Hour: Neptune in Pisces

Neptune by Tony Vowles

The day has rosy cheeks and I imagine
this evening, sunset will light the sky
to a purple hue, while somewhere
hearts are aflame;
lovers’ eyes meet for the first time in a bar,
having spent the day with friends
and sunshine o…

Peter Schiff on the US financial condition (Alex Jones video)

March-April 2011: Alex Jones speaks with economist Peter Schiff on finances, capitalism, bailouts for the super-rich, unions, scapegoating the Middle Class, class warfare (Pluto/Chiron’s baby), taxes, Fortune 100 corporations like GE and Google which helped write loopholes into Obama’s financial reform bill, the Fed, and much more.Part 1 of 2Part 2 of 2(Personally, I’m unable to say that the