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Choice Quotes

Sixty five per cent of the American public aren’t antiwar. They’re just anti-losing. You see, if we were winning the war in Iraq, they’d all be for it. If we … Continue reading

2 March, 2007 · 3 Comments

A tale of two cities: Baghdad

It was the best of times (for war profiteers), it was the worst of times …. Inside the Green Zone, the caricatures of American consumptive popular culture are on display … Continue reading

20 February, 2007 · 2 Comments

2007 State of the Universe Address

Swami Beyondananada is Californian Steve Bhaerman, humorist, author and self-described ‘Optimystic’. As you can see, his humour (US spellers, humor) is delivered with gentle wordplays and much hippie wisdom underpinning … Continue reading

18 February, 2007 · 1 Comment

The Mass Psychology of America

Two interesting and thought-provoking pieces. They both relate to the general mass psychology in the US (applicable perhaps also to the other Anglophone countries, to lesser degrees), the irrationality of … Continue reading

17 February, 2007 · Leave a comment

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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