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Poll charts attitudes in the Middle East

Jim Lobe reports on an interesting recent multicountry public opinion poll of the Middle East in IPS (8 Feb). There are many significant and heartening findings, including that majorities in … Continue reading →

10 February, 2007 · Leave a comment
Portrait of the artist as a 15 y.o., on the moon :)

Portrait of the artist as a 15 y.o., on the moon :)

I recently happened upon this photograph, taken of a painting I produced in high school. This is all that remains, as I eventually chucked the canvas out. It was a … Continue reading →

9 February, 2007 · 4 Comments

Molly Ivins’ last column

This was Molly Ivins’ last column. May this shining light rest in peace. Thanks to Dean for forwarding the graphic by Sherffius from Cagle Cartoons. In a less rousing, more … Continue reading →

8 February, 2007 · 3 Comments
Thank you, Maureen Dowd

Thank you, Maureen Dowd

… for a memorable and entirely spot on dressing down of the presidential puppeteer, Dick Cheney. The whole NYT article entitled ‘Daffy Does Doom‘ is worth reading, but I’ve excerpted … Continue reading →

29 January, 2007 · 4 Comments

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"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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