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...Sensitivity isn’t being wimpy,” Jeff Buckley once declared. “It’s about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom.” While Kathy Nilsson refrains from such gestures of grandiose pomposity, her poems are imbued with a similar ear for the power of the mundane. “The Abattoir” is a chapbook with 23 poems that frequently use the everyday to direct the reader on to more abstract concerns of love, loss, and a decaying spirituality. Written...
Ronald Reagan once sent him a personal letter and William F. Buckley considered him a friend. But when White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called Rush Limbaugh "the voice and the intellectual force" of the Republican Party, Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele responded that the AM radio host was nothing more than a "divisive" and "ugly" entertainer...
...like being summoned to as close to God on earth as you can get." - on being invited to William F. Buckley's apartment for the first time. The Rush Limbaugh Show...
...whether a young Henry Luce (founder of Time magazine) actually laid naked in a coffin and told the tales of his early sex life during his Skull and Bones initiation, or if William F. Buckley jumped into a mud pie as part of his hazing, or whether any of the three Bush Bonesman (Prescott, H.W., and W.) really received a gift of $15,000 and the guarantee of a lifetime of financial security upon being selected - all these rumors, publicized over the years by Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times and numerous independent book authors, might never...
...pageant advertisements on campus because they violate the "safe space" policy of various university charters. Feminist ire isn't just directed at pageant organizers either. They also point the finger at contestants who they feel possess a false sense of emancipation. "Their attention-seeking is completely misplaced," says Ruby Buckley, a women's officer at LSE. "They are parading up and down and being leered at by men who have paid money to judge them on how they look." (Read a TIME story about Facebook...