On this Memorial Day, I would like to share with all my fellow countrymen a story that follows perfectly the classic “bad apple spoiling the bunch” concept. The extent to which this American People chooses to exercise its sense of proper judgment and justice will ultimately determine the level of devastation this “bad apple” [...]
Archive for May, 2006
Memorial Day: Remembering the Actions of One Man
Posted in Dan Black Posts on May 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Attaining Impeachment May Turn Out to be a Mixed Blessing
Posted in Dan Black Posts on May 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
It’s difficult to escape the latest trend of Bush-bashing; seeming to surface in magazines, junk mail, bumper stickers, and things of the like, it reached a new level altogether when the Center for Constitutional Rights drafted their “Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush” this past March. There is this sweeping movement to remove George [...]
A Poet’s Passing, Her Words Still With Us
Posted in Dan Black Posts on May 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
It was 120 years ago today that poet Emily Dickinson died in her home in Massachusetts, known to the world barely moreso than she was the day she was born. Her life shrouded in mystery, recalled today as quiet serenity, it’s hard for me not to wish there were more like her in our modern [...]
A Return to Writing, A Renewed Love for the Written Word
Posted in Dan Black Posts on May 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
My blog, now silent for weeks, has lost its sense of direction, navigationally jarred and agitated to the point of possibly heading uphill in ardent struggle to arrive at the Earth’s core. Its discombobulated state, however, has proven far from self-defeating, respecting that redefinition is periodically essential, that motion is not always progress, and that [...]
