skip fox
Profile Information
Member since: 2002
Number of posts: 19,102
Number of posts: 19,102
About Me
I am retired, now a professor emeritus at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where I taught in the English department for 37 years. I've written 4 chapbooks and 5 full-sized books (all listed as poetry though many include other genres as well), including _Sheer Indefinite: Selected Poems, 1991-2012 (Univ. of New Orleans Press, 2012). I've also written a 500+ page bibliography of three contemporary poets: Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, and Robert Duncan. I am writing now, both fiction and poetry, more now than ever. My first vote for President of the United States was for Dick Gregory in 1968 (Bowling Green, Ohio). Favorite quote: "It's easy to be an idealist if you don't have to mind the evidence, but no one said it was supposed to be easy" (Richard LaPauvre).
Journal Archives
"I'm riding this grift to the bloody end!" . . . Please come CAPTION PresiDented Trump!!!
PresiDented Trump is thinking: "P.T. Barnum was wrong. It's not 'A sucker is born every minute' but hundreds every second, thousands. . . . And most of them vote . . . and buy hats. |
Posted by skip fox | Sun Apr 21, 2019, 09:05 AM (5 replies)
Profiles in Crazy, LXXIV. . . . Please come CAPTION PresiDented Trump!!!
PresiDented ("My bone spurs healed themselves; you just can't argue with good genes." )Trump is saying: "I'm not releasing my tax returns for one terrific and legally sound reason: one day someone may want to pass a bill stating that no sitting President of the United States should have to show his tax returns, and I don't want to set a bad precedent . . . . Any lawyer who doesn't take notes will tell you that's as solid as it gets!" |
Posted by skip fox | Sat Apr 20, 2019, 08:45 AM (5 replies)
Profiles in Crazy, LXXIII. . . . Please come CAPTION PresiDented Trump!!!
PresiDented Trump is saying: "No press talk this weekend folks. . . . It's a sacred weekend, or didn't you know that? . . . Two-thousand-and-nineteen-years ago someone was born who we're still talking about today. . . . Amazing. Simply amazing. . . . And he didn't even have a building named after him when he died, but look around today! . . . Interviews simply wouldn't be appropriate." |
Posted by skip fox | Fri Apr 19, 2019, 09:20 AM (4 replies)
"Law is just a three-letter word." . . . Please come CAPTION Attorney General William P. Barr!!!
William ("God gave us Trump like he gave us Christ!" ) Barr is saying: "I'm being absolutely truthful when I say that United States should be worried. . . . Very, very worried. They better hope President Trump doesn't sue for reparations. . . . And I think he has a fantasic case. . . . I'm just giving an unbiased opinion." ********************************************************************* Above CAPTION based on the political commercial/press conference Barr gave this a.m. as covered by CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/mueller-report-released-barr-releases-full-400-page-report-redactions-today-live-updates-2019-04-18/ |
Posted by skip fox | Thu Apr 18, 2019, 09:30 AM (4 replies)
A head wreck is a head wreck. . . . Please come CAPTION Glenn Beck!!!
Glenn Beck is saying: "Listen, I'm not claiming that the Notre Dame fire was started by Islamists, but it sure has all the earmarks. The one that seems a dead giveaway to me is the fact that there is no evidence pointing to them. . . . I mean, give me a break!. . . . Doesn't anybody else find that odd?" ******************************************************************** Above CAPTION based on the following clip at Media Matters: https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/04/15/glenn-beck-if-notre-dame-fire-was-started-islamists-i-dont-think-youll-find-out-about-it/223455 |
Posted by skip fox | Wed Apr 17, 2019, 10:30 AM (13 replies)
Profiles in Crazy, LXXII. . . . Please come CAPTION PresiDented Trump!!!
PresiDented Trump just finished saying: "Look, if I gave them my tax returns, next they be asking for is justice and good government. All they ever want is more. . . What can you do with these people?" |
Posted by skip fox | Tue Apr 16, 2019, 09:44 AM (2 replies)
"Even my wet-dreams come up dry." . . . Please come CATION CPAC Chair Matt Slapp!!!
Matt (lobotomy at age 9) Schlapp is saying: "It's clear why Democrats want open borders and sanctuary cities: voter fraud!!!. . . . Who is better at avoiding boundaries and doing what they want where they're not wanted? . . . Why illegals, of course. . . . So with a fake driver's license, some of these illegals will easily be able to vote over one-hundred times apiece. It's nothing to them. . . . Over one-hundred times, can you believe it?" *************************************************** Above CAPTION based on the following Fox clip at Media Matters: https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/04/15/Fox-News-anchors-allow-CPAC-Chair-Matt-Schlapp-to-again-push-the-baseless-right-wing-lie-o/223444 |
Posted by skip fox | Tue Apr 16, 2019, 08:02 AM (2 replies)
"After deep and long consideration . . ." Please come CAPTION Diamond and Silk!!!
Silk (Rochelle Richardson) is saying: "Pete, I'd like to ask Representative Ilhan Abdullahi Omar just one thing: 'How does it feel to be a political hack? To put your own ideology above loyalty to your country and human decency?' . . . And another thing: 'How can you stand to live with yourself?' . . . It must be terrible!" |
Posted by skip fox | Mon Apr 15, 2019, 09:28 AM (2 replies)
"After all, it's only fair." Come CAPTION the nation's chief law enforcement officer, A.G. Wm. Barr!
William Barr is saying: "Senator, to avoid all the blacked-out portion for redactions, and in the spirit of total transparency, we've decided to print the entire report in white ink. . . . and we'll be more than happy to make photocopies for everyone who wants one!" |
Posted by skip fox | Mon Apr 15, 2019, 08:33 AM (3 replies)
"I take Viagra just for the wet-dreams." . . . Please come CAPTION Fox's Brian Kilmeade!!!
Brian ("no decent homunculus would have me" ) Kilmeade is saying: "So you claim the goal of socialized medicine is to see the population equipped with prosthetic limbs, wheeling around in motorized wheelchairs, and/or hooked on zombie drugs. . . . Sounds about right to me!" ************************************************* Above CAPTION loosely based on a Fox segment linked at Media Matters: https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/04/12/foxs-brian-kilmeade-falsely-claims-republicans-want-fix-obamacare/223429 |
Posted by skip fox | Sun Apr 14, 2019, 08:56 AM (6 replies)
