BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Word of the Day | Dictionary.com

caliginous
\ kuh-LIJ-uh-nuhs \
 adjective;


1. Misty; dim; dark.

Word of the Day Dictionary.com:

 "Quotes:

Finally the smell of smoke grew strong and I came hurriedly round a corner to find a synagogue on fire, smoke boiling up into a caliginous sky.
-- William H. Gass, The tunnel

I could continue my observations of solar obfuscation, and prove that a caliginous vapor arises from the planet.
-- Victor Hugo, The man who laughs"
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