Author: stevekuusisto

Stop Governor LePage from making devastating cuts to health care for Maine's most vulnerable citizens. These short-sighted cuts will end up costing Maine more in the long run.

http://signon.org/sign/save-healthcare-for-low.fb1?source=s.fb&r_by=11894

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“I’ve been told not to talk, but these stooges don’t scare me. Threats or no threats, I’ve laid bare the coming race war in our big cities. The federal-homosexual cover-up on AIDS (my training as a physician helps me see through this one.)”

–Iowa front runner Ron Paul from his newsletter.

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I always suspected Nixon of being Bebe’s baby:

Check out this article:

Book digs up rumors of Richard Nixon’s gay affair

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/nixon-darkest-secrets-biography-digs-rumors-richard-nixon-gay-affair-mafia-banker-article-1.997960?localLinksEnabled=false

Payment in school bullying revealed

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/12/28/south_hadley_paid_prince_family_225000_to_avoid_lawsuit/?s_campaign=MobAppShare_EM

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…oh, dear lord, not this again. This is what happens all the time. For some reason, and I will never figure out why, people seem compelled to insist that, if we just look past his Dickhead Tourette's, Newt Gingrich has an interesting mind. (And, no, he really doesn't. He has a mental steamer trunk full of Rube Goldberg contraptions, some history he bought cheap off the "Irregular" pile, and toy dinosaurs.)

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We thank Señor Mannion for bringing us this priceless quote by Charles Pierce…

Just eight days before last Christmas, the light of Kara Dorsey's life died. Birch, the yellow lab who helped guide Kara through the world, passed away in her arms, on the bed where she had often stroked his tummy. Birch, who was 14, was wearing the blue service vest he earned as a canine companion to Kara, who is paralyzed from the chest down and struggles to use her hands.

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Loving a faithful service dog and saying goodbye: the hardest journey of all. I still have my beloved Corky's ashes always near.

4 Reminders That the Iraq War Was A Catastrophe

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/4-reminders-that-the-iraq-war-was-a-catastrophe/250532/

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Stephen Kuusisto 
Director
The Renee Crown University Honors Program 
University Professor
Syracuse University

The eyes are silent until one listens. A doctor I know can hear your eyes turning softly like leaves on Thoreau’s pond–one chooses Walden, a tabula rasa, the seasons written on water.

The doctor, my doctor, hears a blind child’s eyes with their animal faith, the essence whispered of thousands of consequential worlds.

Every eye is the electrolysis of drama. Each eye holds the predicament and labor of
life, even a blind one with its involuntary confusions.

In the flux and rumble of the sea, a hagfish, a long tunnel of living darkness evolved twin patches that sensed the light–diurnal, hunting, feeding.

How beautiful its ephemeral hallucinations must have been, driving upward into sun.

How beautiful to have seen in vacuo: light as light, light as the existence of unseen things. How beautiful to hear the light throughout your body, paleocene glimmerings of life itself.

The eyes are silent until you listen with ardor. One sees they were never silent. The optic nerve of the hagfish, a tuning fork, the vibrations of uncritical instinct…

& the lamprey, first creature with risen, exophthalmic lenses, cameras of the deep lakes, what fanciful histories could its eyes tell? Black animal with no mouth, who drifts in and out of consecutive visions…

A blind child knew all the rains of summer & one night, beyond the pines, he saw the moon through two glass dishes, which, of course, they called his eyes.

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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-big-daddy-20111227,0,4747407.story

Stephen Kuusisto
Director
The Renee Crown University Honors Program
University Professor
Syracuse University