Lancelot Schaubert's Blog, page 87
June 8, 2020
Beyond Belief: Harry Houdini in the Age of Alternative Facts
Gabriela Valencia over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you. Is that a bargain? Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass Independence Day Eve 1878, at the age of four, Hungarian-born Erik Weisz immigrates to the United States with his pregnant mother and four brothers. The Weisz-turned-Weiss family settles in Appleton, Wisconsin, and later, in a boarding house […]
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June 7, 2020
A Friend In Need
C.D. Marcum over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
Knitting doesn’t cure the hopelessness. It only distracts. He never tells anyone. About either. He sleeps with the afghan—his finest work—and every morning stuffs it in the closet with his other creations. Green mittens. A red toboggan. Tonight’s drive to the liquor store is particularly cold. He rubs a circle on the fogged windshield with […]
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June 3, 2020
House Cat Pantoum
Melissa Johnson over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
In the window, I watch and sit. Birds light and peck the ground. Into the air, they dart and flit. I meow and make no sound. Birds light and peck around. Bumping the glass and twitching my tail I meow and make no sound. Such slender necks, weak and frail. I bump the glass and […]
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June 2, 2020
Warped
Tess Eggleston over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
I.Escaping scars as the years slowly tick byis inevitable. Banging into walls, the bruises and blisters of liferun like a roadmap. Trophies awarded for fortitude,for qualifying for life,for finishing the race. They are the markof a well-lived life. II.What, then, about invisible scars?Escaping detection in a mirror’s reflection,they lurk in deep crevices. Peeking out just […]
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June 1, 2020
Reading and Decoding English
Dennis Brooks over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
Reading and Decoding English 6 Letter 2.1 Dauntless Courage If you know people who have Dyslexia, help them learn to read starting with this column. It takes patiences to teach them the individual sounds. This is an excerpt from Title: Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley To Mrs. Saville, England. Archangel, […]
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May 31, 2020
Boumediene v. Bush: Unanswered Issues and Current Moral Codification
Camille Wilk over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
In Boumediene v. Bush, the U.S Supreme Court was faced with a post-colonial issue regarding overseas authority and correlating precedents. Broadly, the question arose—for a third time since Rasul v. Bush (2004) and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006)—whether constitutional rights extend to non-sovereign territories under U.S control. More specifically, the case encompassed a question of whether […]
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May 27, 2020
Mea Culpa
Melissa Johnson over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
“Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” St. Luke 2:49 Forgive me father, for I have sinned. Sins of the father, the sins of the seed. I confess the guilt I could not transcend. It is in your image I tear and rend, Repeat your mistakes and follow […]
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Pythagoras
Ilse Eskelsen over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
Marya would die without the Pythagorean Theorem. It’s her security blanket. A-squared-plus-b-squared-equals-c-squared. She whispers it to herself at night. Because at only age eight, she’s witnessed perfection. Her parents proffer patient smiles as she tries to explain the beauty of something that is true, that was true two thousand years ago, that will always be […]
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May 26, 2020
Spread
Emalee Long over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
“Thanks.” Lifting her hand from the smooth countertop to take the latte from the girl with a bat tattooed on her neck and faded pink hair left a quickly disappearing imprint of heat and sweat.She turned, fishing for her keys in her purse, as they clattered to the floor, her headache blossomed into boisterous laughter […]
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May 25, 2020
After the Postponement: Speaking for the Graduating Class of 2020
Ken Hogarty over at The Showbear Family Circus - Lancelot Schaubert's and Tara Schaubert's liberal arts circus. said ::
Mortarboard, indeed! Apt considering only one metaphor works for 2020 grads: We have scaled the WALL and seen the future. The Leader’s WALL got built in 2020 through the mother of all GoFundMe campaigns after Covid-19 scared America witless. Marx erred: Capitalists wouldn’t sell rope to hang themselves. They’d sell mortar to build security. When […]
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