An Explanation of Today's Posts

1. My favorite word is an archaic old English spelling of Whitsuntide (Pentacost), not some sort of Omian rite performed before the Apocralypse.

2. No that is not "My favorite view of the mountain", my favorite view is from Cornish - as I have so (un)clearly stated in the past..... or wait was it the view from Killington...?

3. Words are fun for two reasons: 1. They allow us to communicate and 2. They seperate us from other species, and the president.

4. The political posts represent that I am: 1. Against the Guantanamo Prison because it dehumanizes the captors as much as the captives 2. Against supplemental funding in general, and especially against supplemental funding for war because in the current millieu it represents a blank check to gov't contractors and hides the cost in non-itemized line items. And finally 3. I was against the Iraq invasion from the beginning, not only because it perpetuates a myth of redemptive violence in the nationwide psyche but also because it represented a further power-play by the adminstration shuffling jobs to their cronies and hiding the cost in dollars in supplementals, and hiding the cost in civil liberties in patriotic language.