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• Doggerel #214: "Absurd"

  
  The Bronze Blog — Authority: 125
  Welcome back to " Doggerel ," where I ramble on about words and phrases that are misused, abused, or just plain meaningless. Sometimes, its easy to dismiss something as absurd: It contains internal contradictions, like a "round square." It flies in the face of better evidenced ideas, like a perpetual motion machine ...
  1 week ago

• Doggerel #213: "Just Because / Its Magic!"

  
  The Bronze Blog — Authority: 125
  Welcome back to " Doggerel ," where I ramble on about words and phrases that are misused, abused, or just plain meaningless. This particular Doggerel entry is a bit different from the standard sorts: Its usually only spoken in between the lines, most commonly when someone is faced with a question of "how." Ive seen ...
  1 week ago

• Just Hold On Til Mo

  
  Bardball — Authority: 120
  by James Finn Garner .  Dedicated to skittish Yankee fans everywhere: . When your son asks you advice on mascara, When your head’s a-flame and your mouth’s a Sahara, When that small, still voice inside prattles like Berra– I’ve got two words: Mariano Rivera. When you’re uprooted and force-marched to ...
  1 week ago

• Doggerel #212: "Weird"

  
  The Bronze Blog — Authority: 125
  Welcome to a Halloween edition of " Doggerel ," where I ramble on about words and phrases that are misused, abused, or just plain meaningless. Theres an implicit argument that seems to come up whenever I hear someone attempt to justify the paranormal by changing the subject to quantum mechanics or other branch of ...
  2 weeks ago

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  Gutterflower — Authority: 406
  This week, somewhere in Pakistan a bomb exploded leaving a trail of melted toys and severed limbs - ripping apart lives and splintering souls, painting the horizon a violent crimson While I cursed a too-slow computer people mutely watched three men on a beach deliberately beat a boy. They watched as his thin arms ...
  2 weeks ago

• Doggerel #211: "Spooky"

  
  The Bronze Blog — Authority: 125
  Welcome to a Halloween edition of " Doggerel ," where I ramble on about words and phrases that are misused, abused, or just plain meaningless. Sometimes, skeptics are easily bored. A great deal of the frustration we experience is born out of that boredom: Whenever someone tells us about some "spooky" occurrence, ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Prodigy

  
  Gerbil News Network — Authority: 472
  There once was a young man who from date of birth Showed promise of one day achieving great worth. His parents sure thought so, his teachers did too– He’d really be something when upwards he grew.   It might be in science, or maybe the arts He wouldn’t end up like the other old farts. And so all and ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Ballad of Susan Finkelstein

  
  Bardball — Authority: 120
  by James Finn Garner . The girl had “Phillie Fever”, A massive fall attack. The only cure required her To lay down on her back. To nab a pair of tickets, What must a clever girl do? A “Dirty Utley”?  “Around the Lidge”? A “Hamels Camel” or two? But the cops horned in, and now her pic’s Been ...
  2 weeks ago

• Doggerel #210: "Victim"

  
  The Bronze Blog — Authority: 125
  Welcome back to " Doggerel ," where I ramble on about words and phrases that are misused, abused, or just plain meaningless. On some level, as social beings, we have an instinct for justice. When one of "our group" is harmed, we can quickly direct our anger at who or whatever caused that harm. Much of the time, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Doggerel #209: "Patented"

  
  The Bronze Blog — Authority: 125
  Welcome back to " Doggerel ," where I ramble on about words and phrases that are misused, abused, or just plain meaningless. This bit of doggerel is an old marketing trick that shouldnt work anymore. A patent does not indicate efficacy, only uniqueness, and sometimes not even that. Ive heard that, at least in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Doggerel #208: "Nothing"

  
  The Bronze Blog — Authority: 125
  Welcome back to " Doggerel ," where I ramble on about words and phrases that are misused, abused, or just plain meaningless. This entry is more specific than most, dealing primarily with Creationists. Its become a tired old cliche of theirs to ask, "How can you believe something came from nothing?" There are many ...
  2 weeks ago

• Doggerel #207: "Eastern"

  
  The Bronze Blog — Authority: 125
  Welcome back to " Doggerel ," where I ramble on about words and phrases that are misused, abused, or just plain meaningless. The "East" is almost a magical place for many of us "Westerners." Wildly different culture, home to many impressive tourist attractions, birthplace of many exotic martial arts, gunpowder, ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Poetry Kings

  
  Gerbil News Network — Authority: 472
  A rainy Saturday afternoon in the offices of plangent voices, the poetry quarterly I helped found nearly three decades ago, and from which I was summarily ousted in a hostile takeover in the early 80’s by Elena Gotchko, the Emily Dickinson-wannabe whom I had taken under my wing when she was still a naif young ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cheering for the Laundry

  
  Bardball — Authority: 120
  by James Finn Garner . Stars and journeymen come and go, But the colors stay the same (Unless a retool’s passed by MLB, The Heidi Klums of the game). We cheer for laundry throughout the year, And as the leaves turn red and gold, The winning jerseys pull up front, Eight teams leave the fold. Champagne pops and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Doggerel #206: "Toxins"

  
  The Bronze Blog — Authority: 125
  This entry brought to you by YouTuber C0nc0rdance : Part 1: Part 2:
  3 weeks ago

• Doggerel #205: "The Mainstream Wont Publish My Stuff!"

  
  The Bronze Blog — Authority: 125
  Welcome back to " Doggerel ," where I ramble on about words and phrases that are misused, abused, or just plain meaningless. This bit of doggerel is often a sort of preemptive "sour grapes" rationalization: Because the mainstream allegedly wont publish something, they dont have to bother trying. Even if the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Yankees, 2009 Immortals

  
  Bardball — Authority: 120
  By Kevin Hennessy . When the Twins face the Yankees, Mere mortals we don’t just see: Gods as great as those of Greeks Stand upon tall mountain peaks. A-Rod, king of playoff clutch, Jeter, dare we stray too much? Mark T., we should four-ball pass, Jorge? He isn’t out of gas. Then the bullpen, dare we see? ...
  4 weeks ago

• Gone to the Dogs: Doggerel For a Title

  
  The Bronze Blog — Authority: 125
  Decided to watch "Lock and Load" with R. Lee Ermie last night. I liked Mail Call, and enjoyed the new show and the history lessons about various weapons. Unfortunately, I was treated to another of History Channels forays into woo, and its pretty bad when its got Doggerel #18 for a title: " I Know What I Saw! " Its ...
  6 weeks ago

• Kung Fu Panda’s Stretch Run

  
  Bardball — Authority: 120
  By Stuart Shea If Pablo Sandoval Has a fault at all It’s simply that his uniform can’t fit. Nobody looks like him And it will be quite grim If sometime soon his uniform pants split. . Posted 9/15/2009
  8 weeks ago

• Rainbow alphabet doggerel (S,T)

  
  Wind Rose Hotel — Authority: 125
  S is for Simple S ailor Simon went to sea In a ship with a single sail. When a salty storm shook the ship The sail was slit by the gale. So when all seemed lost And the squall shrieked on He was seized by a shylock squid, If I take you to shore and save your soul, It would only cost you a quid. (When sailor ...
  8 weeks ago

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