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It seems ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson will be appearing on NBC’s Today Show on Thursday, May 15, 2008. NBC wants to know if we, being the audience, have any questions for the executive in the ten gallon hat.

Well.

If I were to send a note to the CEO of ExxonMobil it would read something like this:

Hi Rex.

I was wondering a couple of things -

– Has ExxonMobil ever paid the court mandated fines and restitution for the Exxon Valdez spill up in Alaska? and if not, do you think, given that we are at or somewhere past peak oil production, do you think there will ever be a better time than now, to pay up?

– Given a) American energy dependence, b) recognition of global warming as a phenomena likely to produce the extinction of species by the Bush/Cheney administration - do you see any hope that your industry can lead the way in changing where American energy comes from and how it is produced? Or do you, do executives such as yourself, envision a world where fossil fuel dependence is maintained until every last drop of crude, and every last nugget of coal, has been extracted, processed, and sold? If the latter, how do you imagine that will impact our national security?

Lastly, Rex, do you have any kids?

That’s right! I’ve been SPAMMED! Does that mean my blog the dog blog has hit the big time?

It does seem a bit unfortunate, but for the time being I think it best if folks are required to register and login to leave a comment, perhaps in time the spammers will shrivel up and blow away . . . 

I’ve created an optical illusion using nested div tags formatted with css - it’s an interesting novelty I hope you will enjoy. The original I posted yesterday had a little bit of a browser compatability issue related to the css behind it, and that issue has been solved. I hope you’ll stop by,

Every Corner

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I Will Bear Witness

A modern day cartographer has come
to delve so deep within the human mind
his delving cracks below the cranium.
I never thought of man as so unkind.

To render from within and break apart
that slender thread of reason all must grasp;
with malice and aforethought from the start
has come a mockery of language, laws and facts.

Proclaim: psycho-social sabotage
is but a crime unto our human sense
that only BFSkinner would applaud.
Of this I do aver: it makes no sense.

I watched them on the street incite disaster -
minions of the modern slaver’s master:
 he raised his hand up high, salute
 to shade his brow; this signal passed, he turned
 on heel in sharp precision as she passed
 and so she turned, and came as if in chance
 upon two ’subjects’ sitting on a bench.

 These ’subjects’ occupied the lowest rung
 of social stratus and they coupled young
 to birth the child now clasped within his arms.
 Her approach upon this seated pair, unarmed,
 unwarned of her advancing stimulus,
 nipples thinly veiled and breasts so pendulous
 as to incite a riot in the heart
 and loins of saints once chaste, even in the dark.

 She leaned over just to coo and cluck
 the infant bundle swaddled in his arms,
 exposing cleavage deeply cleft, and lust
 that did uncoil to this young couple’s harm.
 
 She left these ’subjects’ seated there to chew
 upon this thing so wickedly inspired -
 beneath a noon time heat in envy stewed;
 this young mother’s jealous rage did flare.

Not privy to this sum in caution rent,
I had but one small glimpse of stimulus
- subtle as to craft, nature, and intent -
instilled with an immediate effect.

Because of this: a mad magician’s art,
To your attention must I now direct:
The human engineer assails the bastion
with ruler, compass, weighted line and chart,
whereon he makes and will destroy his mark -
our humble anchorage, the sound of reason.

© D. Winter
November 2, 2007

A Barking Dog

two people with a dog
a dog’s toy
and a stick

“jump, boy, jump”
the dog jumps
the other kicks it

they switch
jump, boy, jump
the dog jumps

the other kicks it
this goes on
and on

the dog of course
gets confused
and howls

the dog growls
and jumps
and howls

the dog howls at nite
does he wake the neighbors?
do they know?

the cruelty of fools
they get a mate
they get their cameras

and the comic strip
in the paper
alien breeding farms

cameras at the ready
anticipation steady
but the dog won’t mate

instead he howls
and growls
and tries to wake the neighbors

this cannot continue
someone
anyone

should call the U.N.
before the next s election

© D. Winter

November 26, 2007

One small voice of American dissent - zendogblog - launched into the void of cyberspace in late March, 2008. “Just a little bit of poetry, and a little bit of art, with themes of psychobable voilins are found inside . . .” Bring your coffee, relax for a bit, while I engage your conscience. “The human engineer assails the bastion, with ruler, weighted line and chart, . . .”

All the world’s an oyster,
all the world’s a pearl.
You may be:

an oyster
or a pearl
or a grain of sand.

Credibility -

is only a matter
of perception.

Truth -

speaks for itself.