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Monthly Archives: December, 2008

Action for Gaza

Rally – Lobby – Boycott – Donate

28 December, 2008 · 30 Comments

Joyeux Noël, two scenes

Two memorable clips from the movie Joyeux Noël (2005) set in the so-called ‘Great War’ (though there’s nothing ‘great’ about war!), centered around the true story of the Christmas Truce … Continue reading

25 December, 2008 · 3 Comments

A Modern Parable for the Middle East

I originally posted this at Haitham Sabbah‘s and at Israel’s 60th Birthday blog, and cross-post it here now. Curiously, I first came across this anecdote as a teenager in a … Continue reading

23 December, 2008 · 2 Comments

Heaviest Element Discovered: Governmentium

A major research institution (MRI) has recently announced the discovery of the heaviest chemical element yet known to science. The new element has been tentatively named Governmentium (Gv). Governmentium has … Continue reading

23 December, 2008 · 1 Comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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