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Thank you, Roger Waters

You’ve made yet another appreciative fan, on both the musical and political fronts. The lyrics are marvelous. You won me when you graffitied the apartheid wall and stood up for … Continue reading

15 April, 2007 · 3 Comments

Thinking Blog Award

Meme: n. A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another; a unit of … Continue reading

12 April, 2007 · 10 Comments

Beyond Iraq and a Hard Place

Great comedic overview of the US and UK with excellent impersonations and mock-ups. This Channel 4 comedy production is historically accurate with a satirical edge. Writers Geoff Atkinson and Rory … Continue reading

5 April, 2007 · 2 Comments

Abadi El Johar on the oud

The oud is a Mediteranean-Middle East instrument used in traditional music. Run-time: 3:20

5 February, 2007 · 2 Comments

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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