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The terror weasel word

© David Baldinger Thanks to Servant for providing this snippet from a Robert Fisk lecture.  It was one Fisk gave in Canada but is almost word for word the same … Continue reading

13 January, 2007 · 20 Comments

Authentic hope

Some very thoughtful words from Rebecca Solnit on our current condition in her excellent book, Hope in the Dark, p. 24: “Bush invited his constituency to be blind to the … Continue reading

12 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

Upanishad interlude

Two birds, inseparable companions, perch on the same tree. One eats the fruit, the other looks on. The first bird is our individual Self, feeding on the pleasures and pains … Continue reading

11 January, 2007 · 2 Comments

Seek joy in the saddest places

Tom Feeley over at ICH does such a great job collating pertinent political articles from around the world. His email alerts also often feature pithy and relevant quotes. Here’s one … Continue reading

9 January, 2007 · 4 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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