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Meet Michael Leunig

By now you will know of the depth of my appreciation for political cartoonists and artists: David Baldinger, Andy Singer, Khalil Bendib and other luminaries who say it all so … Continue reading

25 March, 2007 · 7 Comments

Gaza Strip

I bought this 2002 documentary, Gaza Strip, only a few days ago. The expression of the boy on the dvd cover, he looks maybe ten, twelve, haunted me. It is … Continue reading

24 March, 2007 · 2 Comments

What you’re not shown about Israel

If you haven’t already viewed this trailer for If Americans Knew, it is an excellent compilation of prominent previous US Representatives, Senators and Ambassadors talking about the consequences of blind … Continue reading

18 March, 2007 · 3 Comments

Affirm Life

affirm life. affirm life. we got to carry each other now. you are either with life, or against it. affirm life. Suheir Hammad is a Palestinian American poet. Her poetry … Continue reading

21 February, 2007 · 8 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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