First Day of School, Pop Quiz. Short Answer. Please define the following in 40 words or less.
New Age Spirituality:
Use of exotic practices and churingas to (1) decorate the ego or (2) flee the self. Based in fear, irrationality. Potentially transformational if (1) creates community or (2) induces peaceful altered states. Creates psychosis when repressed issues return.
A ha.(colloq., Boulder, CO):
A moment of unanticipated grace in the flow. E.g., In third series, consider that SKPJ’s edict “straight arms!” means a straight ninety-degree angle. Suddenly it’s about sucking into the solar plexus and letting yourself float, not just building linebacker shoulders to muscle through.
Campaign Themes:
Dems—Come Together “God to be good looking cos he’s so hard to see”
GOP—Stop Children, What’s That Sound “It starts when you’re always afraid”
Privacy; a.k.a. “family matters are not political matters”:
When women and men get to make own decisions about pregnancy and birth control. When a certain young woman “makes the decision on her own to keep the baby.” Diametric opposite of what John McCain and Sarah Palin want for you.
Vagina Police:
Focus on the Family; abstinence-only education; I would “oppose abortion even if my own daughter was raped;” etc. Giving new meaning to the Sept 2 holiday of VJ Day.
Cynicism:
A woman candidate chosen to reaffirm patriarchy at the highest level; “call for action” instead of taking action when own party controls government; making this NOT ABOUT THE WAR; pre-emptive protester arrests; being anti-polar bear; climate change is natural
(0v0), Ovo:
An OK combination in times of hard physical work, but only if (0v0) is showering after practice. For three days and three night after ovo, (0v0) experiences “BO.”
BO:
Not sure. Ask the Editor.
The Editor:
Earning his name one high sign at a time. Making up for it with qualities which have been edited from this document.
September:
An intensely beautiful, spare, quickly fleeting species. Further classification incomplete.
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