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Alex Castellanos Now Advisor to McCain Campaignby Gilbert Wesley PurdySun Jul 20, 2008Daily KosMaybe Castellanos is a racist, maybe not. But if his research indicates that a racist ad will help his candidate, he's already proven once that it is not beyond him. [Go to the complete story >>>]The Ballad of Big Dickby Gilbert Wesley PurdyThu Jul 10, 2008Daily KosEv'ry mornin' at the White House you

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New Poetry:For the Tattooed Man by Sharmila VoorakkaraFried Beauty by R. S. GwynnSeeing the Eclipse in Maine by Robert BlyDead Butterfly by Ellen BassGo to the Poetry Index >>>New Book Reviews:Never Far from a Breakdown. Collected Poems: With Notes Toward the Memoirs, by Djuna Barnes. Reviewed by Brian Phillips.Thrills and Chills and Home Movies. Strong Is Your Hold, by Galway Kinnell. -and-

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-55623510835045220822008-05-29T21:29:00.010-04:002008-07-21T19:27:09.756-04:00Jon Norman: tortured enfant anti-hero

by Gilbert Wesley Purdy.This memoir was originally slated to appear in Days of Creativity: A Collection of Poems by Jon Norman ed. by James Stidfole. Little Red Tree Publishing. 2007.1. Shortly after I was assigned to the Navy construction crew of the USS Groton, at the Electric Boat Naval Shipyard, in Groton, Connecticut, in 1976, a shipmate (a first-class electronics technician with a Dagwood

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1157414538400755592008-04-21T19:44:00.001-04:002008-06-23T16:01:20.423-04:00Federico Garcia Lorca Page

Federico Garcia Lorca (June 5, 1898 - August 19, 1936) was born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada. He grew to be a talented pianist as well as poet and playwright. His first published book was Impresiones y Paisajes, a volume of prose published in 1918.Between 1919 and 1924 Lorca lived at the Student Residence of the University of Madrid. In 1920 he was matriculated to the university. It was there that

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-63438241653686655232008-01-30T23:04:00.001-05:002008-07-08T18:47:00.363-04:00From the Trenches: Primary Experience.

by Gilbert Wesley PurdyThe Palanca Food Pantry shares its digs with Florida’s 3048th and 3056th precincts on election days. It’s quite an effort to resituate the Tuesday programs for the homeless, & etc., to the west side of the church so that voters may trickle comfortably into the doors on the east side.As always, the pantry proper, during which we provide a box of food to take home (for the

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-51882665336426690772008-01-03T22:56:00.003-05:002008-07-08T18:48:54.455-04:00From the Trenches: the Palanca Food Pantry.

by Gilbert Wesley PurdyThe holidays were unusually busy at the Palanca Food Pantry here in little Lake Worth, Florida. Our crowds are up about 50% this year and resources are stressed but the response of our partners and the community at large has been gratifyingly up to the task thus far. On balance, we are able to meet the additional demand.The communities we serve — the homeless, persons on

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-50341826406109199172007-12-26T19:18:00.000-05:002007-12-26T22:08:39.436-05:00More on the Etymology of Eggnog.

Important Note -- There is a question as to whether the GB information referred to below isn't the product of a bumbling data entry error. It has been brought to my attention that querying the information further arrives at contradictory results that suggest that the quotation probably comes from the 1958 edition of Acts Passed by the General Assembly of Georgia rather than the 1735 edition.*It

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-57270693935592037702007-08-27T23:14:00.001-04:002008-02-15T23:19:49.664-05:00With Florida Tied Behind Our Back.

The Democrats are looking mighty confident this election cycle. The poll numbers are gratifying. More Americans identify themselves as Democrats than Republicans. More Americans say they lean toward voting for Democrats than Republicans. Democrats lead in the polls on all domestic issues. The Democrat call for withdrawal from Iraq polls high throughout nearly all demographics.They are so

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1160254999742977522006-10-07T16:55:00.000-04:002007-07-05T15:34:49.508-04:00The Struggle of the Green Sea Turtle Mother and Infant

While articles about hunting turtles and their eggs are more likely to injure our sensibilities today than to whet our interest they can also be a source of first-hand information about sea turtles. Here, in an 1890 article, from The Outing Magazine, J. M. Murphy gives a nice description of the egg-laying habits of the female Green Sea Turtle [Chelonia mydas] and the subsequent scramble to the

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1159651400917493582006-09-30T17:16:00.000-04:002007-07-05T15:49:21.706-04:00Capitol Staff Say Mark Foley Was Known Harasser.

Local Palm Beach County coverage of the Mark Foley scandal is strangely ahead of much of the national media. While many (if not most) national venues have chosen to report the story as a matter of the mildly troubling e-mails Foley sent to one Louisiana page, at least two local news affiliates reported last night having possession of many more e-mails to many more Capitol pages. The e-mails, it

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1159580920314204672006-09-29T21:44:00.000-04:002007-07-05T15:38:57.055-04:00Seminole Boys Riding Sea Turtles

While articles about hunting turtles and their eggs are more likely to injure our sensibilities today, than to whet our interest, they can also be a source of information about sea turtles and other curious matters.The best turtle divers in the Gulf of Mexico are the Seminole Indians. They have been known to bring an eight hundred pound turtle from a depth of forty feet; but the Bahamians are

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1156722654978207362006-08-27T19:45:00.000-04:002007-07-05T15:47:36.065-04:00Ted Kooser Page

Ted Kooser (April 25, 1939 - )Interviews:A conversation with America's newest poet laureate, Ted Kooser: Interview by Jeffrey Brown (PBS News Hour, October 2004);Russell Interviews Kooser (MiPoesias 2005);Voice from the Heartland: Interview by Allan Bennet Jones (The Connection, August 2004): Real Audio;Readings: A Literary Evening with John Prine and Ted Kooser (Library of Congress, March 2005):

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1144965842360279602006-04-13T17:48:00.000-04:002007-07-05T15:37:39.069-04:00Grant Succumbs to Temptation, Hayes Gets the Nod (1876)

William Archibald Dunning recounts how President Grant refuses a third term in language so equivocal that it amounts to encouragement for his partisans. The result is a Congressional warning and the nomination of Rutherford B. Hayes.Not long after Grant's second inauguration in 1873, the New York Herald, in the mere exuberance of a notorious sensationalism, broached the idea that the president

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1144963412483413452006-04-13T17:07:00.000-04:002007-07-05T15:37:14.768-04:00Adams's Education is Advanced by President Grant

Young Henry Adams, already an eye-witness to the Italian struggle for independence and Secretary to the United States' Ambassador to Great Britain (his father), decided next to try his hand at political journalism in Washington, D.C. He, like most Americans, would vote for Ulysses S. Grant in the 1868 presidential election and looked on with interest to see how matters would unfold.Adams was

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1144515354494469072006-04-08T12:14:00.000-04:002007-07-05T15:37:14.768-04:00Grant Tries for a Third Term (1880)

Edwin Erle Sparks describes how, in the wake of Rutherford B. Hayes's pledge to serve only one term, the 1880 Republican convention began with Ulysses S. Grant well in the lead and ended with James A. Garfield -- the darkest of dark-horses -- walking away with the nomination.In May, 1877, ex-President Grant sailed from New York on a tour of the world, and returned three years later to be greeted

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1143305395344777652006-03-25T11:34:00.000-05:002007-07-05T15:38:57.055-04:00A Visit to a Pottawatomie Medicine Dance (1842).

Catherine Stewart took the opportunity, while residing on a Pottawatomie reservation, in the early 1840s, to learn something of the language and to attend a number of activities including a Medicine Dance. As sympathetic as she was to the problems of the Native American populations of the Upper Mississippi she did not come to see them from the inside. Nevertheless, she is a more than normally

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1142699195204221782006-03-18T11:26:00.000-05:002007-09-28T21:18:37.558-04:00American Life in Poetry #51: Jim Harrison.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEWalt Whitman's poems took in the world through a wide-angle lens, including nearly everything, but most later poets have focused much more narrowly. Here the poet and novelist Jim Harrison nods to Whitman with a sweeping, inclusive poem about the course of life.MarchingAt dawn I heard among bird callsthe billions of marching feet in the churnand squeak of gravel,

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1142698945237639422006-03-18T11:21:00.000-05:002007-09-28T21:18:02.946-04:00American Life in Poetry #50: Grace Bauer.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEThousands of Americans fret over the appearance of their lawns, spraying, aerating, grooming, but here Grace Bauer finds good reasons to resist the impulse to tame what's wild: the white of clover blossoms under a streetlight, the possibility of finding the hidden, lucky, four-leafed rarity.Against LawnThe midnight streetlight illuminatingthe white of clover

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1142379930325479552006-03-14T18:45:00.000-05:002008-01-10T18:00:04.170-05:00American Life in Poetry #49: Rodney Torreson.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEThis fine poem by Rodney Torreson, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, looks into the world of boys arriving at the edge of manhood, and compares their natural wildness to that of dogs, with whom they feel a kinship.On A Moonstruck Gravel RoadThe sheep-killing dogs saunter home,wool scraps in their teeth.From the den of the moonancestral wolveshowl their approval.The farm

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1142379818527105422006-03-14T18:42:00.000-05:002007-09-28T21:17:11.931-04:00American Life in Poetry #48: Walt McDonald.

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATEEvery parent can tell a score of tales about the difficulties of raising children, and then of the difficulties in letting go of them. Here the Texas poet, Walt McDonald, shares just such a story.Some Boys are Born to WanderFrom Michigan our son writes, How many elk?How many big horn sheep? It's spring,and soon they'll be gone above timberline,climbing to tundra

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1132174950313805692005-11-16T16:02:00.000-05:002007-07-05T15:44:53.701-04:00How to Remove PokaPoka.

The following is a detail page of Virtual Grub Street's Adware & Malware Identifier Index:The information in the Adware & Malware Identifier Index is the result of thousands of web searches. It can not, however, possibly be complete. The subject is vast and constantly changing. Moreover, vendor uninstall tools and other removal tools do not necessarily remove all of an infection from your

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1131489384679345352005-11-08T19:49:00.000-05:002007-07-05T15:45:53.035-04:00CCleaner Information Page

The information in Virtual Grub Street's computer postings is the result of thousands of web searches. It can not, however, possibly be complete. The subject is vast and constantly changing. Moreover, vendor uninstall tools and other freeware removal tools do not necessarily remove all of an infection from your computer. Vendor uninstall tools, for instance, may silently leave cookies or other

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1129841097191158132005-10-20T18:22:00.000-04:002007-07-05T15:45:53.035-04:00EliteBarfix.bat Information Page

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Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1128796323988989642005-10-08T14:30:00.000-04:002007-09-29T18:27:01.082-04:00Whittling Away at the Beast.

by Gilbert Wesley Purdy.Superpatriotism by Michael Parenti.San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2004.168 pp. $11.95 paper. ISBN 0-87286-433-2.In the realm of American dissident politics, Michael Parenti is a man with shining credentials. He marched, and participated in more pointed protests, in the 60s and 70s. His rap-sheet shows the scars of the experience.... [Go to the review>>>] [Go to the Book

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1128291311582885732005-10-04T20:29:00.000-04:002007-09-29T18:26:24.320-04:00The Citizen Strikes Back

Return to Book Review Index >>>by Gilbert Wesley Purdy.Citizens of the Empire: the Struggleto Claim Our Humanity by Robert Jensen.San Francisco: City Lights Books [site], 2004.XXVIII + 144 pp. $11.95 paper. ISBN 0-87286-432-4.There are more protest marches today than at any time since the late 1960s. The war in Iraq has been protested against by millions. The WTO chooses the prospective sites of

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1127861078293621962005-09-27T18:44:00.000-04:002007-09-29T18:25:15.028-04:00A Word Association Test.

by Gilbert Wesley PurdyWords Brushed by Music ed. by John T. Irwin.Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.200 pp. $12.95 paper. ISBN 0-8018-8029-7. $27.50hardcover. ISBN 0-8018-8028-9.In 1979, while the poetry world as a whole was marching with ever greater determination towards quote-unquote free verse and one or another variation of anti-poetry, Johns Hopkins University Press

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1127587589244675612005-09-24T14:45:00.000-04:002007-09-29T18:24:45.974-04:00Dueling Mythologies.

by Gilbert Wesley Purdy.Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company 1910-1945 by Geoffrey L. Buckley.Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. xxiv+216 pp.$46.95 cloth. ISBN 0-8214-1555-7. $22.95 paper. ISBN 0-8214-1556-5.In the process of working toward his doctorate, in Geography, Dr. Geoffrey L. Buckley informs us, it was his "good fortune to stumble upon a truly

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1127345312622135422005-09-21T19:28:00.000-04:002007-07-05T15:44:53.703-04:00EliteBar Removal tool updates to 2.0.1.

In addition to the removal tool update VGS announced in the recent article EliteBar Removal Tool Updates to V.2.0.0!!!!!, SimplyTech.it has added yet another feature. As announced here in SimplyTech's Forum, EliteBar Removal Tool now comes in two flavors:We have some new versions of the ETRemover to offer. You can download them from here: Version 2.0.1 for people who don't get "RunTime Error 5"

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1125168583342063062005-08-27T14:49:00.000-04:002007-07-05T15:44:53.703-04:00ISearchTech.SideFind Update (08-27-05)

A couple of recent comments appended to Virtual Grub Street's "How to Remove ISearchTech.SideFind" inform me that SpyBot S&D is no longer able to remove the newer versions of ISearchTech.SideFind or ISearchTech's Your Site Bar. A preliminary check around the net verifies that the following message is received when the SpyBot S&D 1.4 (most recent version) scan is run:ISearchTech.SideFind: Settings

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1120779831881324312005-07-07T19:48:00.000-04:002007-07-05T15:44:53.704-04:00Adware & Malware Indentifier Index: Letter C.

The following is an in-progress index of some of the more common malware toolbars/browser helper objects, and associated files, at large on the Internet. It links, when possible, to detail pages including vendor uninstall pages and freeware or trialware removal tools. No commercial removal software is cited. Only auxiliary information for manual removal is provided. It will be regularly updated

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1120779381720075452005-07-07T19:31:00.000-04:002007-07-05T15:44:53.704-04:00How to Remove AproposMedia.

The following is a detail page of Virtual Grub Street's Adware & Malware Indentifier Index:The information in the Adware & Malware Indentifier Index is the result of thousands of web searches. It can not, however, possibly be complete. The subject is vast and constantly changing. Moreover, vendor uninstall tools and other removal tools do not necessarily remove all of an infection from your

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1120606546247554642005-07-05T19:35:00.000-04:002007-07-05T15:44:53.704-04:00How to Remove DyFuCa.

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1120604428985980092005-07-05T19:00:00.000-04:002007-07-05T15:44:53.705-04:00How to Remove HuntBar.

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1120324479027934032005-07-02T13:07:00.000-04:002007-07-05T15:44:53.705-04:00Adware & Malware Identifier Index: Letter S.

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1120322926769860692005-07-02T12:42:00.000-04:002007-07-05T15:44:53.706-04:00Adware & Malware Indentifier Index: Letter M.

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1120322117620765372005-07-02T12:35:00.000-04:002007-07-05T15:44:53.706-04:00Adware & Malware Indentifier Index: Letter I.

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1120091006799416012005-06-29T20:23:00.000-04:002007-07-05T15:44:53.706-04:00How to Remove Lop.

Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13732124.post-1119673837096840992005-06-25T01:42:00.000-04:002005-06-25T02:56:50.473-04:00Writer Brag Board

- June 24th, 2005 -WRITER GAZETTE WEEKLY UPDATEhttp://www.writergazette.comKrista Barrett, Ownermailto: editor@writergazette.comA Writer's Digest Best Site of 2002, 2003 & 2005!Bringing you the best writer-related resources online; free articles, paying job listings and call for submissions, contests and more -- every Friday!A warm welcome to all my new subscribers and 'welcome back' to my

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