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Concerning Roman Polanski, Child Rapist

October 3, 2009 By Paxton Daryl Branson 5 Comments

Hollywood, in general though not in total, seems to be rallying to the defense of Roman Polanski, admitted child-rapist. This includes the likes of Harvey Weinstein, Whoopie Goldberg, and Peter Fonda, to name a few. Whoopie, for example, says it wasn’t “rape-rape.” Apparently, there’s rape, and then there’s rape, and a 43-year-old man drugging, then [...]

Filed Under: Social Issues Tagged With: actors, Anne Applebaum, controversy, drugging then anally penetrating a 13-year-old girl, famous arrests, Harvey Weinstein, in prison, Patrick Goldstein, Peter Fonda, Polish Defense Minister Radek Sikorski, rape, rapist, Roman Polanski, Swiss Directors Association, Washington Post, Whoopie Goldberg

Grandpa Max's Clock Repair

June 12, 2009 By Paxton Daryl Branson 2 Comments

When I was growing up, my grandparents had a mechanical mantle clock built in 1967 that would play the Westminster Quarters on the quarter hour. I loved it, and even though they usually kept the chimes turned off, they turned them on when I was visiting. So when I moved out on my own, Grandma [...]

Filed Under: Living a Good Life Tagged With: antiques, clocks, grandfather, grandparents, harlots sauce radio, hobbies, learning from the old, story, watch, watch maker, what keeps us ticking

‘Progressive’ Sexism: My Letter to Donna Brazile

February 1, 2009 By Paxton Daryl Branson Leave a Comment

January 2009 Dear Ms. Brazile: You were the plenary speaker today at the Walden University residency in Dallas, Texas. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to come and speak to us. Your speech was, for the most part, entertaining and inspiring. However, I feel compelled to express some dissatisfaction with [...]

Filed Under: Women's Issues Tagged With: Donnas Assinine, football, Harlots Sauce and Donna Brazile, obama, Politics, racism, sarah palin, sexism, society, women

The Disappeared of America

January 1, 2009 By Paxton Daryl Branson Leave a Comment

Who remembers the ones who have been lost and have not yet returned? In Latin America, forced disappearances are done for political reasons. The disappeared ones, as they are called, or los desaparecidos. It is the political version of genocide. People thought to be politically dangerous for any reason at all ─ one night they [...]

Filed Under: Social Issues Tagged With: crimes against children, disappeared ones, help, kidnappings, missing, missing children, missing persons, searching for lost people, social problems

What Liberal Bias?

July 1, 2008 By Paxton Daryl Branson Leave a Comment

Katie “Who Needs Talent When You Have Stunningly White Teeth” Couric recently was interviewing John McCain concerning his plan for Iraq, and during this interview, McCain said something that wouldn’t mean much to the average American, but to anyone with a knowledge of the timeline of the conflict in Iraq, was totally inaccurate. In essence, [...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: american elections, couric, john McCain, mccain, Politics, polititians, rant

The Tyranny of Grammar

June 2, 2008 By Paxton Daryl Branson Leave a Comment

Free yourself from the tyranny Of the English language. Take arms against fascist phraseology. Defend against the dogma of diagramming. Grammar is oppression Imposing conjugation Formulating regulation Relegating creativity to a Subjunctive tense. Would have, could have, should have, But didn’t. It forces nouns and verbs Into an hegemony of number agreement The Tyranny of [...]

Filed Under: Poetry and Prose Tagged With: english, grammar, language, poem, poetry, prose

Guns in Space

May 1, 2008 By Paxton Daryl Branson Leave a Comment

For anyone who grew up reading a lot of science fiction, like myself, the “weaponization” of space probably seemed pretty inevitable. I mean, all those cool stories couldn’t happen unless there were really big spaceships flying around all over the place with plasma beams and graviton pulse weapons and… sorry, my geekdom was showing. But [...]

Filed Under: Science and technology Tagged With: atmosphere, guns, guns in space, space