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Monthly Archives: December, 2006

Kucinich remark an island of sanity in a sea of inanity

Lawrence of Cyberia has highlighted this timely quote from US Congressional Representative Dennis Kucinich. It saddened and angered me anew at what BushCo and their AIPAC-tilted policies are responsible for … Continue reading

15 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Channel surfing on Middle East TV

Its always a curious, interesting experience watching foreign language TV without subtitles. You can learn and discern a lot culturally, even without fully understanding the dialogue. At my parent’s place … Continue reading

15 December, 2006 · 15 Comments

Muhammad Yunus Nobel Peace Prize Lecture

My preambular comments followed by Dr Yunus’s address: Gandhi once observed that “Poverty is the worst form of violence.” Peace and justice are inextricably linked. The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize … Continue reading

14 December, 2006 · 2 Comments

The Bushwacked Band won’t leave the stage

Cheney is still beating the drums of war, Bush is still warbling on, Condie and the rest are still hitting discordant notes that are only music to the ears of … Continue reading

14 December, 2006 · 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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