Sounding His Barbaric YAWP...

... over the rooftops of the world!!!

On the big screen, the leader of theDead Poets Society at an all-boys prep school was an inspirational teacher played by Robin Williams. In real life, it's a balding amateur poet who drives around in his "Poemobile," visiting and documenting the graves of dead poets and calling attention to their works.

Walter Skold, founder of the Dead Poets Society of America, just finished a three-month road trip in which he visited the graves of 150 poets in 23 states. Skold boasts that he set a literary land speed record of 1.66 gpd (graves per day) over the course of his 15,000-mile journey...

"It's not really a morbid project but rather a way to honor our literary forebearers and to historically resurrect their works," Skold said...

Skold, 49, of Freeport, founded Dead Poets Society of America a year ago, leaving his job as a public school technology teacher to pursue his passions of poetry and photography. For his trip, he bought a used cargo van with a rack for cameras and supplies, shelves for books and a desk that, in a pinch, doubles as a bed.

Over the course of his 90-day journey, Skold visited the gravesites of giants of the poetry world including Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, as well as lesser-known poets like Dudley Randall, whose Broadside Press published many leading African-American writers.

He's making a film documentary called "Finding Frost: Digging Up America's Dead Poets." Next year, he hopes to scout out America's dead poets buried in Europe...

"So many of these individual poets have such interesting stories and such interesting lives that I really feel it's a shame that they've been lost to our literary imagination or our literary history," he said. "I'm trying to bring back people's works and lives who have value and who have been forgotten for one reason or another."

Random links a-comin'...

Over these last few months in which I haven't been as active in blogging as I had been in the past, I have accumulated quite a number of links to stories (political, economic, and otherwise) which I found either intriguing or important. Over the course of the next month I hope to go through these, sort out the ones I still find of importance, and post them.

So, stay tuned...

This about sums it up 9 months in...

Day By Day says it all today.

Awesome rundown, Chris!

Prizeless!!!

UPDATED:

Hot Air is on a roll about it.

First Things also chimes in.

Creative Minority poses a question:

The best part is that the votes were in by February 1st which means that Obama was in office less than two weeks when the Peace Prize committee voted... Essentially, the only thing President Obama did before the vote was taken was he reversed the Mexico City Policy to allow the funding to international abortion providers. Does funding the death of babies from other countries merit a peace prize?

Power Line lists previous notorious winners of "The Prize".

And I just shake my head and laugh at the absurdity.

The Cross of Honor is bestowed upon Mother Angelica...

(Hat-tip Insight Scoop)

EWTN's founder Mother Angelica and the network's former president, Deacon Steltemeier, have been bestowed the highest honor by Pope Benedict XVI - The Cross of Honor.

Congratulations!

Back in mid-2006 I had the opportunity to visit EWTN and The Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Alabama. This link will take you to my 8-part post on my personal experiences during that spiritual trip.

"Let the sunshine in..." Part II

(Hat-tip Redstate)

Senator Bunning has introduced legislation similar to Congressman Joe Wilson's.

Hee-hee.

Ten for '10

(Hat-tip to RedState)

Laura Ingraham initiated a TEN FOR '10 plan that harkens back to the successful '94 Contract With America (click here for the details):

• A taxpayer bill of rights
• End taxpayer funded abortions
• Secure and defend the border
• Support a strong dollar
• Empower American businesses
• Defend America
• End Statism
• End generational theft
• Restore justice
• Make America energy independent

I like it!

"Everybody, Let's Sing Some More"...

(Hat-tip to Gateway Pundit)

In another classroom at another school... another song of praise for The Obamessiah.

(Hat-tip to HotAir)

And another school with yet another song of worship of The One!

God help us all!!!

Bloom -> Rose -> Off

(Hat-tip to Flopping Aces)

He never had the right.

He's lost the middle/independents over the summer.

Next... the lefty MSM?

"Let the sunshine in... let the sunshine in..."

(Hat-tip to RWN)

Joe "You Lie!" Wilson has a "let the sunshine in" bill that would require every bill in Congress to be posted in full on-line for 72 hours before any votes are cast.

Heh-heh-heh.

I like his style.

Everybody, Let's Sing Along!...

Gateway Pundit has this scary gem of a news item.

I seem to remember mentioning things like this before.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

CLUNK!!!

Surprise, surprise, surprise...

Chesterton Takes On ACORN...

Just link through to Sean @ The Blue Boar for more. (Heh!)

Lest We Forget...

The plot thickens, as a Denver man is taken into custody in Queens, NY.

Storage facilities revealed some interesting things. Seems that railway systems are part of the threat.

Fox News breaks more info on the investigation, as stadiums and hotels are in the mix.

Jihad Watch has more here, here and here.

Hmmmm... that's right... we are still in a WAR on... uhh... what was it, again?... hmmm... oh, yeah... THAT'S right... radical Islamic terrorists.

'Tis Time to Erase the "Racist" Rhetoric...

Mr. Malaise thinks we're all racists. But, with links-a-plenty, the Anchoress hits a grand slam out of the ballpark! READ IT ALL!

More from the Anchoress HERE.

9/12 March on D.C. (Tea Party Redux)...

The most accurate crowd estimates have the 9/12 Protest March on D.C. at between 850,000 and 1 million as the minimum. Flopping Aces has more on the event.

American Thinker has a nice take on the event, too.

NEVER FORGET...

Angry, You Say?...

Someone over at RedState is a little pissed.

Bow Down to "The One"...

(Major Hat-Tip to Flopping Aces!!!)

The One wants airtime to talk to our kids during school hours.

Hollywood idiots ask the kids to make pledges... including these two gems

"I pledge my service to Barack Obama." (WTF?!?)

and

"I pledge to be a servant to our President." (Umm... he's supposed to be OUR servant.)

"Heil Obama!"

Big Brother: Obomination-style

(Hat-tip to HotAir)

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773, which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

The new version would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for "cybersecurity professionals," and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.

Read the full story here at CNET.