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Mock-ups Revisited

For a satirical article on putative liberal culpability, see David Michael Green’s Your Genitals: The Great Moral Issues of our Time (The Regressive Antidote :: ICH :: Common Dreams)

12 March, 2007 · 7 Comments

GWB Sums Up His Presidency

When the thief-in-chief is his own caricature, no satire is required. Now look, a lot of us um and aah and stammer on occasion. We’re all human. But we’re not … Continue reading

11 March, 2007 · 23 Comments

No bravery

There are several videos set to James Blunt’s ‘No Bravery’. I have picked two, run-times 4:32 and 4:02 respectively. Lest we forget the people of Iraq and the human dimension … Continue reading

11 March, 2007 · Leave a comment

Who is in Iraq?

While the coalition of “the willing” in Iraq has turned into the coalition of the leaving (troops from Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Japan and New Zealand have already wisely left), three … Continue reading

10 March, 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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