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What if Baghdad Bob Was Right All along?

A great short piece by Tony Norman. I wonder what ‘Baghdad Bob’ is doing now and whether he’s OK. Is he part of the 1000+ (many estimates put it at … Continue reading

9 December, 2006 · 2 Comments

Jimmy Carter: Speaking Frankly about Israel and Palestine

***See also Rabbi Michael Lerner’s ‘Thank you Jimmy Carter’, TomPaine (6 Dec.) ***See excerpts from Carter’s book here  LA Times | 8 Dec 2006 Nobel Laureate and Former US President … Continue reading

9 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Dec 22 is World Orgasm Day

***For an update, see Did the Earth move for you? Global Orgasm Day extended and now a yearly event Now here is something far more eminently constructive than those vacuous … Continue reading

8 December, 2006 · 7 Comments

Independent Christmas Appeal for oPt

Independent Appeal: Charity Auction 2006 Independent Appeal: Charity Auction 2006 – terms and conditions Independent Appeal: Where your money goes The Independent‘s Christmas Appeal will focus on the dispossessed of … Continue reading

7 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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