Shakespearian Prophecy*[*Concerning Mitt Romney]
Region: New York
Bain will be the bane of Mitt's campaign. more
Views: 819An Exclusive Interview with Ann Romney
Region: New York
Sparrow: Democratic pundit Hilary Rosen recently said that you "never worked a day" in your life. Is this true? Ann: That's nonsense! I have worked several days in my life. For example, on May 25, 1971, I furiousl... more
Views: 739Mitt Romney Is Gay!
Region: New York
The story has just emerged that while at the prestigious Cranbrook School in 1965, Mitt Romney led a vigilante attack on a suspected gay student, holding him down and forcibly cutting his hair. "He can't look like that. Th... more
Views: 1040New Poems of Emily Dickinson
Region: New York
New Poems of Emily Dickinson -- a bold title! -- by William H. Shurr, with Anna Dunlap and Emily Grey Shurr, offers hundreds of new poems found within Emily's correspondence. Many of them are "fourteeners": a line of iambi... more
Views: 691Christian Ethics in the Presidential Election
Region: New York
Speaking as a fundamentalist Christian, I must regretfully observe that Mitt Romney is destined for Hell due to the heresy of Mormonism, whereas Obama, who is an actual Christian, will surely enter Paradise. I call on all ... more
Views: 763My Imaginary Debate with Rick Santorum
Region: New York
Santorum: If God had intended us to use contraception, we would have each been born with 1700 condoms. Me: If God had intended us to use contraception, She would have given us the intelligence to devise it. She did. more
Views: 774The Bumper Sticker That May Win the Election
Region: New York
MITT ROMNEY GUESSED MY AGE WRONG [A New York Times article from last December 27 revealed that Mitt travels through the country constantly guessing people's nationalities, ages, and interrelationships -- for examp... more
Views: 687Greg Girard, "Half the Surface of the World," International Center of Photography (until May 6)
Region: New York
Greg Girard is a Canadian photographer who has spent much of his life in Asia. The ICF is showing his photographs of American military bases in Korea, Japan, Okinawa and other Asian locales. These photos are surprising. Th... more
Views: 1100"Whales, Whaling and Whalecraft" by Paul Giambarba
Region: New York
This is a simple book full of illustrations by the author, intended either for children or tourists (or both; there is a genre of "child tourist literature"). Mr. Giambarba published it himself (I suspect), in 1967, under ... more
Views: 887"The Fox" by D. H. Lawrence
Region: New York
Some hustler could make 2 or $3 million transforming this book into a moody English film. But I'm glad he doesn't! I'd much rather read it, slowly, over two weeks -- though it's only 195 pages. The front cover calls The Fo... more
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Sparrow avoids refined sugar and National Geographic magazine, but he enjoys all jokes, including:
Tourist: Excuse me, but do you have a pumpkin patch?
Farmer: Why, do you have a leaky pumpkin?
His latest book is America: A Prophecy -- The Sparrow Reader (www.softskull.com).
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