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Random quote of the day:


"When you're a law student, they tell you that if you can't argue the law, argue the facts. They also tell you if you can't argue the facts, argue the law. If you can't argue either, apparently, the solution is to go on a public relations offensive and make it a political issue...to say over and over again "it's lawful," and to think that the American people will somehow come to believe this if we say if often enough."

—David Cole, Georgetown Law Professor, on a speech by Alberto Gonzales



Thanks to merebrillante for the quote.

( Illustrated version. )

Shy as virgins

Love at Fifty

We come together shy as virgins
with neither beauty nor innocence
to cover our nakedness, only
these bodies which have served us well
to offer each other.

At twenty we would have dressed each other
in fantasy, draping over the damp flesh,
or turned one another into mirrors
so we could make love to ourselves.

But there is no mistaking us now.
Our eyes are sadder and wiser
as I finger the scar on your shoulder
where the pin went in,
and you touch the silver marks on my belly,
loose from childbearing.

"We are real," you say, and so we are,
standing here in our simple flesh
whereon our complicated histories are written,
our bodies turning into gifts
at the touch of our hands.

—Marcia Woodruff

Or so I've been told

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