Not the NYT ..
SheepOverboard is not exactly news - and, well, not exactly not.
Montaigne's what would I know? Huxley, almost
anything about almost everything. Or Bierce
nothing matters. Codifying life's lunatic impromptu inclines irrestistably to
essay.
Blue Planet
Civilization smugly astride the chariot of 'progress' deftly yet blindly side-steps oblivion.
Species sapient yet oddly servant to every process it ever begat
Sheep-ku
Thoughts form, coalesce,Key clicks scribe to cyber screen -
New page greets the web
Ovine Divine
Growing
up with sheep is a bit like ... well, having ten thousand sisters and brothers.
Ovine reporter Ewen Shearer takes you on a loving tour of lanolin and fleece
Dark Side
Please, don't go there (please do)Serendipity
Online eons. The view from your computer's Window(s). Cyberland and your spam-encrusted email slotWar'shington
Three
strikes out? US FoPo racked 300 in 200 years. Capital roundsman Jake
Mossback on Fed & Internat.
bruisings: "US
foreign policy lurches like a past-it punch-drunk"
De Arts
Keystone-award
winner Brud Broder takes Honkywood dodderal to task. And waxes lyrical on la
culture in general. War
"Not much to be said for it really" More lies
Testimonials Unsolicited. No-one cared so we made 'em upMunchies
Munch Montage Just a tiny sample of tributes celebrating the world's most iconic and famous painting. Mona Lisa was never like this.Karma
Aspire
Boffin
Dark Arts
Empathy
Fondness
Scribbler
Haiku in English is Rafferty’s Rules.
The joy of poetry escaped me for 60 years. One magical day Haiku appeared, which so piquantly paints Japanese thought I’m forever its prisoner of delight.
While subtle intricacies …
I have a question
Do presidents, on the first day of office, alight the yellow bus at 1600 Pennsylvania, down socks, defiantly swagger up the driveway, plastic lunchbox replete with jelly sandwich and apple, sidle …
Missives misgiven ~ Letters from Australia
SheepOverboard’s editors unanimously proclaim Australia [phon: oztrillia;oztraylya; tof: orstrellia] a leading combatant in the unseemly international brawl craving this coveted slur: 51st aspirant of that irascible empire, …
Messiah’s Lament
There will be no messiah.
No salvation. No redemption, judgment, ascension, or rapture.
Should Messiah walk the Earth, the stupor that owns this moment would pay no heed, and the beast that enslaves …
Alien Evaluation
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Five-penny Tour of Paradise Oz
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Trojan’s Cusp
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Spiritual IT Support
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Has Bin
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On not shedding a tear
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Generosity
Style
Civilization ..
defiles itself
Times past when warlords, priests and royalty hoarded luxury, life was a short grim struggle. Today most enjoy obscene wealth yet still deny dignified survival to working poor, and ravage entire countries as collateral to our laissez faire fiesta.
On not shedding a tear .. A Century of Imperialism
hasn't dulled the urge
Read more .. Charity
~ its own reward
And what's going on in Land of the Free, Home of the Brave? As 40% of kids fail grad the Iraqistan wars suck $2.4 trillion [CBO 2017 est]. Imagine this staggering sum applied to rebuilding The Great Society. Courtni's quest is noble as her message pure. Lend her a hand.
Where Charity Begins This lazy unemployed
..crack-smoking welfare queen ran up U$15 trillion debt
If he's a welfare leech then your soul is with the sociopaths and predators who own Warshington and its minions, the Repugnicans and Dumfocrats, gutting a once noble nation that aspired to equality.
This elite will survive the US economic train wreck, land softly on 300 million plundered taxpayers, then from fortresses of luxury and privilege prey elsewhere for spoils.
The dawn of civilization was greatly exaggerated.
