On December 5, the Black Student Union at the University of Iowa announced its boycott of a popular locale in Iowa City, Brothers Bar and Grill. The boycott comes in response to photos posted on the bar’s website showing three men wearing blackface at the bar during a Halloween costume party. One photo shows a [...]

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Bolshevik tart You smudged your revolution across the face of that boy. You sent him stumbling out of the bar Like a child scattering his sweat out of the ruined village. Years after, he’d feel phantom pain in the center of his chest when it rained or snowed or broke out a few splinters of [...]

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A group is an army or a dissembling cause & A leader is a demagogue or the first defector & A cause is a leader or an army & Its employment is armed or vocalized & The wasps are an army & Their leader is a lung alive with air & They don’t dissemble they [...]

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1. The mirror must forgive the face, that the razor may forgive the nose. The wall must forgive the nail, that the mirror may forgive the face. 2. The street must forgive the shoe that the shoe may forgive the foot. The field must forgive the street lest the feet stampede the field 3. The [...]

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There once was a word on a page – a dead actor on a white stage – that, touched by an eye was enabled to fly into meaning from out of its cage.

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Number of years Iowa has held its “first in the nation” caucus status: 31 Estimated dollar amount brought in to Iowa by the caucuses in 2004: 50-60 million Estimates for this year: 100-120 million (http://www.iowacaucus.org/iacaucus.html) Percent of party nomination Bush received in Iowa in 2000: 41 Percent of party nomination Clinton received in Iowa in [...]

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Christopher Hitchens is a British-born author and journalist now residing in Washington, D.C., where he became a naturalized citizen on his 58th birthday on April 13 of this year. A former Trotskyist, Hitchens broke with the left as he grew increasingly concerned with the threat of Islamic terrorism and disenchanted with what he called the [...]

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Kate Kennedy: Is there any way to save the Boheme? Pete Sherman: Well, the business and the philosophy are two different things. What you’re doing is the Boheme. So there’s the business of the Boheme, but businesses come and go, and there’s the philosophy of the Boheme – and I know what you mean, but [...]

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It’s time I had some time alone Welcome to the endgame Welcome to the 23rd hour Somewhere in the frozen dark The bell tower waits for the moment That time stands still She brought me a candle I’ll never forget the play of light In her eyes and the room full of smoke and sound [...]

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Despite total immersion in Yankee lore over the past month, with frequent phone calls and e-mails to fellow baseball aficionados who respect the game like no other set of fans, I fully realize that a majority of sports enthusiasts gloated as the Indians bumped George Steinbrenner’s Billion Dollar Babies in the first round of the [...]

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