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…oh, where, tell me where, have all the eloquent rhetoricians gone in Parliament?…

Seumas Gallacher's avatarSeumas Gallacher

…it is with great sadness that I post a general Obituary for the Presence of Eloquent Rhetoricians in the Houses of Parliament… the art of the sparkling soupçon, the elegance of counterpose debate, the majesty of vocabuleric nimbleness, alas, have all joined the Dodo, the Woolly Mammoth and the Sabre Tooth Cat on the roster of extinct creatures… dodowooly mammothI’d posit that the genus ‘Statesman/Stateswoman’ has lapsed into ever-receding mem’ry… my not so ‘umble view is that Master Mikhail Gorbachev is/was the last of that illustrious line… I watch the SkyNews channel for no other reason than that it’s so bad, it’s often quite funny, and today it carried the usual weekly slanging match in the British Houses of Parliament, guising under the term, Prime Minister’s QuestionTime... these days, this constitutes half an hour of assorted insults in the form of Questions to Her Majesty’s premier parliamentarian from the…

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

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