Incandescence

Penguin-- You have done a lovely job in these two chapters of setting up Mella's and Daryl's relationship: there's a strong sadistic element that is at once frightening and endearing. ...

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Snoink, The fear is that extreme liquidity of the "real" economy will happen if the credit-based economy doesn't stabilize (through government intervention). "Liquidity" is a fancy way of saying that ...

PC, I addressed what I believe to be most of the issues you raised in the thread for economic policy (sorry if I missed any; let me know). Best, Brad

Well, Sam, I disagree with most of your points. First off, taxes aren't meant to punish people for doing things: they're meant to convey information about the state and national ...

Cade, The first line of your poem can be absorbed into the title: e.g. A silent film in September. Small poems tend not to resonate with audiences for a lot ...

Palin isn't going to implode. The bank situation is the direct result of the regulations that McCain and other conservatives voted against. Regulations that forced them to give mortgages to ...

Bob, I'm not sure this is poetry. It seems more like a prolonged aphorism than a sustained engagement with metaphor, metonymy, etc. It's a group of descriptions that don't rise ...

Smorg - "Suffered accordingly" is horrific as a sonic. Listen to it: "Suffered" flows smoothly and then is abruptly cut off by the hard "ed." You then introduce a hard ...

Smorg, There's an idea worth pursuing here, but the current structure is completely opposed to the rueful wryness you've written with. The machine gun lines certainly don't help, and particular ...

The choice of Sarah Palin is a sign of the times. In politics, the feminine enunciation is hence called to dominate (Everywhere we see a call for strong, dominating women). ...

Feminists need to understand there's a difference in sexual discrimination and willfully submitting to objectification a la TV shows and pornography. Even if her analysis is correct--I'm not saying it