The Mongrel Dogs Who Teach

Author: mongreldogs

  • Cross-post (test)

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    Just checking to see if the automagical migration of posts from my blog (The Mongrel Dogs Who Teach) to my Facebook page actually works.

  • The debt ceiling and the 14th Amendment

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    The 14th Amendment is more-or-less the Swiss Army knife of the US Constitution.  It defines citizenship, extends constitutional protections to state constitutions, and so on.  Lately, it’s become popular to posit that it also holds the key to avoiding a default of US credit.  Specifically, Section 4 reads 4. The validity of the public debt of…

  • Currently Reading: Second Quarter 2011

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    Better to Beg Forgiveness by Michael Z. Williamson Perdido Street Station by China Melville ?????

  • Published in the Hun Review

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    This is just a list of things I’ve managed to get published in the Hun Review, my school’s literary annual: 2010: The Memory of Pain 2009: The Walking Man 2008: From Arizona to Missouri 2007: Somewhere Beyond the Bitter End 2006: Takings and Leavings 2005: The King Lies Dying; The Burning Moment 2004: A Tide…

  • The Burning Moment

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    or, Mikey’s Last Night I’m scared now. Everyone is scared now — they’re scared of me because of something I did, and now they look at me with new eyes, and I’ve caught their fear the way I’ve caught their scent. I can’t hear Little Little crying anymore, but that’s because Big Lady and Little…

  • Blaze

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    A thrill runs through them – swarming in the darkness cast by the night sky – as a man steps to the microphone And harangues.. A moment before they were a hundred lives with a thousand cares milling about in momentary association. A moment later they are a seething oneness with two hundred eyes but…

  • Drift

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    A single moment is a glistening sparkle Drifting playfully on the sighing wind Individually insubstantial, melting at your gentlest touch, Your slightest attention, Escaping by your very attempt to capture it Destroyed by your every attempt to preserve it   Yet All those moments that evade your eye That fall around you, unnoted, unknown Softly…

  • The Walking Man

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    The walking man keeps walking through fire and through ice He never doubles back or walks the same path twice Though there may not be tolls, there always is a price. The walking man keeps walking through fire and through ice The walking man keeps walking and will not be deterred Every step with growing…

  • From Arizona to Missouri

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    In the summer of 2007, I had an epiphany. It was about, of all things, Rock, Paper, Scissors. Rock, Paper, Scissors is a non-transitive method of decision between two people, wherein each secretly picks one of the items and they compare. The key bit is that each item ties with itself, loses to one item,…

  • The Memory of Pain

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    Awhile back, I had a toothache. I don’t mean a sort of ache-in-the-gums, vague, “oh, I’d better brush more regularly” toothache. I am talking about a full-blown nuclear meltdown in my teeth. Throughout my life I have been blessed with pretty strong teeth but now the evil forces of dental decay had their vengeance. It…