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Autogeddon: one of my fav poems

A U T O G E D D O N An excerpt from the epic poem by Heathcote Williams from Whole Earth Review, Fall 1987: 26-29. Excerpts available online here … Continue reading

18 October, 2006 · 1 Comment

The bright side of the dawn of the nuclear age

“The most spectacular event of the past half century is one that did not occur. We have enjoyed 60 years without nuclear weapons exploded in anger.” — Thomas Schelling, Acceptance … Continue reading

10 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Iranian Science Teachers May Be Enriching Students

Well, I never! 8O TellItLikeItIs (aka the wonderful Curt) has come by this great quote from the excellent Onion. Here ’tis: “We have reason to believe that specially trained Iranian … Continue reading

1 October, 2006 · 2 Comments

Pens not swords

by Sarah Browning :: Foreign Policy in Focus :: 21 September 2006 Writers Becky Thompson and E. Ethelbert Miller bring poetry to the streets. Photo by Mike Maggio. In the … Continue reading

30 September, 2006 · 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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