Phil Boiarski

Addicted to poetry; saddened by the devaluation and denigration of language; bored by the continuous commerce and the constant cacophony of petty pop-culture.
Spyware threat haunts squeaky-clean iPhones • The Register, if they can't find bad news they'll make it up. - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009...
Every techie complains about the iPhone Apps approval process, but this Brit Rag seems to think that Apple would approve Trojan Horses instantly, and then swear never to use their despised "kill switch." - Phil Boiarski
Op-Ed Columnist - A Tale of Two Turkeys - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
I am thankful for Gail Collins and her sense of humor. - Phil Boiarski
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - CNN Poll: Blame for recession shifting from GOP to Democrats « - Blogs from CNN.com - http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009...
Americans have the shortest memories of any people on the planet. Bush gets two terms to make the mess and Obama's to blame because he hasn't produced the magic wand in the first 1/4 of his first term. - Phil Boiarski
Not Ahab, but just as mad!
More @ boiarskitheblog. - Phil Boiarski
Twitter Ugliness, A Part Time Poet's Perspective. - http://boiarskitheblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension - life - 21 October 2009 - New Scientist - http://www.newscientist.com/article...
Time is the essence of being and being the essence of time. - Phil Boiarski
Essay - The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
Do you believe forces in the future could influence the now? - Phil Boiarski
YouTube - Leningrad Cowboys & Red Army Choir - SWEET HOME ALABAMA - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Op-Ed Columnist - All You Have to Do Is Dream - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
My favorite Midwestern humorist, Maureen Dowd but with a smile and a slice of apple pie. - Phil Boiarski
Crooks and Liars If we all got the same health care as Congress we'd all be healthy and live as long as Robt. Byrd. - http://crooksandliars.com/
Wyoming Tribune Eagle Online : Beetle attack will change our world - http://www.wyomingnews.com/article...
Environmental changes will occur before mental changes occur. - Phil Boiarski
Op-Ed Columnist - Score One for the Diplomats - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Muammar & Hannibal are funny. Nukes, not so much. - Phil Boiarski
The Real Paul Jones » NC Literary Festival Panel of Twitter 9/12 at 10am - http://ibiblio.org/pjones...
Poets are using twitter in their craft and sullen art. - Phil Boiarski
Tublular clouds gather every year in Autumn in the skies above Queensland, Australia. No one knows what they are. For the first time in scientific observation, “night-shining” or noctilucent clouds are being observed and recorded outside the polar regions. Scientists are puzzled as to why the spectral glowing clouds are appearing in skies where...
Are the clouds trying to tell us something? http://om.ly/HoZK - Phil Boiarski
Book Review - 'Selected Poems,' by Wallace Stevens; Edited by John N. Serio - Review - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Op-Ed Columnist - The Obamas Leave Town - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Refreshing, plain spoken and pure wisdom. - Phil Boiarski
Op-Ed Contributor - Poetry in Motion - NYTimes.com The Poem Behind the Edsel - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
The author equates poetry, a soul-searching intellectual art form with car-making, an industrial engineering production. Would that you could assemble a poem from its parts and have it hum like a Porche. - Phil Boiarski
Op-Ed Columnist - Republican Death Trip - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
My man, Paul Krugman, the smartest guy in the room. - Phil Boiarski
YouTube - Poem For Sakia Gunn, Thanks to Susan Mernit for sharing living poetry way beyond rap. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Right-Wing Turncoat Gives the Inside Scoop on Why Conservatives Are Rampaging Town Halls - http://www.alternet.org/healthw...
Google News. Obama confronts fears on health care according to the Google News. Who is Josh Gerstein and is he really Josh Galtstein? The linked article says nothing about "lies" or "too many times." The link summary is in itself a lie. Who does this crap for Google and how can they call themselves objective? - http://news.google.com/
Collin Kelley: Modern Confessional: Poets On Twitter 2.0 - http://collinkelley.blogspot.com/2009...
Honored to be among such pleasant company. - Phil Boiarski
The Health Insurers Have Already Won - BusinessWeek - http://www.businessweek.com/magazin...
Now, Business Week is all business and they certainly respect a well played game of manipulate the congress, but this is pretty bold. Kinda makes me want to call my Senator. - Phil Boiarski
YouTube - John Coltrane - Naima - 1965 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
A poet of the sax, the instrument most like the voice, Trane was the man who showed how intellectual Jazz could be, his circles turning into spirals, returning precisely to the center of his soul. - Phil Boiarski
TMZ Gives Apple's Steve Jobs Celebrity Treatment - The Channel Wire - IT Channel News And Views by CRN and VARBusiness - http://www.crn.com/hardwar...
The article ends with an hilarious joke. - Phil Boiarski
Interview with Nile Rodgers of Chic - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture...
Everybody Dance Now....making me feel old. - Phil Boiarski
BOIARSKI, the blog: This Carboniferous Life - http://boiarskitheblog.blogspot.com/2009...
NOVA says it takes 7 trees to suck up the CO2 from just one human being's exhalation per year. Currently, there are about 60 trees per person on earth. Our numbers are growing while theirs are shrinking, exponentially. - Phil Boiarski
Huineng - Huineng Was the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism and for me the "Luther" of Buddhism, the true father of Zen - http://buddhism.about.com/od...
Op-Ed Columnist - What Happened in Vegas - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Handsome, rich John Ensign was on his way to the Preznit's Office. However, this seems to be a bad time for Repugnicant hypocrites. - Phil Boiarski
Potential 2012 presidential candidates haven't been doing so well lately. - John (bird whisperer)
Mayan 'apocalypse' crop circle appears at Silbury Hill - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news...
This is a lot of work for some late night loonies. Love me some 12.21.12 dedication. Go Mayans! - Phil Boiarski
Op-Ed Columnist - Obama’s Fly Move - NYTimes.com The masterful one kills a fly and the media buzz. - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Ali Akbar Khan, Sarod Virtuoso of Depth and Intensity, Is Dead at 87 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
If you have never heard Morning & Evening Ragas, with Ali Akbar Khan & Ravi Shankar, you are missing an enormously entertaing cross cultural opportunity. The same three notes could have a million variations under his amazing fingers. - Phil Boiarski