http://www.madcowculture.com/ Mad Cow Culture: Commentary on current events, slaying of sacred cows en-us 2007-12-05T11:34:19-05:00 http://www.madcowculture.com/archives/000096.html As President Bush enters his last year in office, much attention has been given to his legacy. Will he bring peace to Palestine; will he carpet bomb Iran? Will he find the other Jesus that he missed when he swore... Chuck 2007-12-05T11:34:19-05:00 http://www.madcowculture.com/archives/000095.html The man has been lost in sand for centuries stuck in thr bootprints of Alexander the Great surrounded by desert without water so his brain boils and his eyes see only mirages of men rising from the morning dunes daggers... Chuck 2007-12-03T11:15:22-05:00 http://www.madcowculture.com/archives/000094.html General Petreus will apparently be a little late with his September recommendations for the Congress and President Bush. The General was responsible for giving out hundreds of thousands of weapons to the Iraqi military when he was stationed in Baghdad... Chuck 2007-08-13T12:56:21-05:00 http://www.madcowculture.com/archives/000093.html Malarky wears a dress and inspired by Walt Whitman goes native and chants Rumi Chuck 2007-08-08T15:31:36-05:00 http://www.madcowculture.com/archives/000092.html Poetry is an art better taught by the CIA who know how to get to the bottom of hidden meanings and make sure there are no terrorists in English 101. Chuck 2007-06-20T12:47:44-05:00 http://www.madcowculture.com/archives/000091.html As the saying goes, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." According to a recent ex cathedra promulgation from the Vatican, drivers who display road rage and don't immediately make the sign of the cross, say a Hail... Chuck 2007-06-19T15:24:37-05:00 http://www.madcowculture.com/archives/000090.html The rhumb line crawl up the Sacramento River started in the Tonkin Gulf where we delivered to aircraft carriers a hull full of 2,000 pound bombs then we sailed without ballast east seven thousand miles fueled by memory and regret... Chuck 2007-06-14T11:51:10-05:00 http://www.madcowculture.com/archives/000089.html I am certain no irony was intended. The video showed a school in Baghdad for children blinded in the war playing a game called kick the bucket which was made of aluminum and otherwise used to carrry water from the... Chuck 2007-06-12T15:01:01-05:00 http://www.madcowculture.com/archives/000088.html I buried a blue jay today perfect body, plume and beak in my garden compost pile deep enough to make a difference. The bird must have fallen from a low hemlock branch in a protected cul-de-sac. For three days I... Chuck 2007-05-09T16:08:10-05:00 http://www.madcowculture.com/archives/000087.html The forsythia are not the flaming yellow we have come to expect. No one would be surpirsed if the tulip tree bloomed straight to vegetable ash. The blue jays in my garden should not wait the ripe September cherry trees... Chuck 2007-05-09T15:56:46-05:00 http://www.madcowculture.com/archives/000086.html After the Killing After the killing is done what we have left is a palette of innocent blood as if all art ended and began that April day. A digital colossus stands in our multi-screen nightmare-- pistols parked at... Chuck 2007-05-09T15:19:47-05:00 http://www.madcowculture.com/archives/000085.html A man in a veterans's hat round, squat and still sits in a folding chair outside a Safeway supermarket selling poppies to the late afternoon Friday rush to commemorate warriors lost in the citizen mist. Once you've been in... Chuck 2007-05-09T14:06:02-05:00 http://www.madcowculture.com/archives/000084.html "Just don't look in the mirror." Chuck 2007-02-21T15:16:30-05:00 http://www.madcowculture.com/archives/000083.html The forsythia are not the flaming yellow we have come to expect. No one would be surprised if the tulip tree bloomed straight to vegetable ash. The blue jay in my garden should not wait the ripe September cherry tree... Chuck 2006-12-04T12:33:07-05:00 http://www.madcowculture.com/archives/000082.html The young are going off to war again sent by those who seldom send their own. Spit-and-polish recruiters troll the parking lots of schools as they would a well-stocked stream, looking for the disaffected and the proud baiting them... Chuck 2006-06-26T10:59:24-05:00