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Quantum spirituality trumps Newtonian politics

More wise musings from humorist Steve Bhaerman in his latest emailed dispatch: It’s time for us as a species to stop playing stupid and realize that undertruthing each religion is … Continue reading

1 April, 2007 · 9 Comments

How Americans Are Seduced By War

A thoughtful and worthwhile video lecture delivered in 2005 by Andrew Bacevich, who argues in his most recent book The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War that … Continue reading

29 March, 2007 · 3 Comments

Bumper sticker politics

From the trite to the terrific, the funny to the furious, here are some selected slogan quotes and one-liner witticisms. This selection invariably reflects my own political and philosophic positioning … Continue reading

24 March, 2007 · 11 Comments

Images of Iran

Slideshow of beautiful images of many parts of Iran by photographer Ali Majdfar, viewable also as still images. With thanks to Naj for pointing it out.

9 March, 2007 · 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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