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Everything is OK

A montage — thanks Dave. “Do you have permission to be here?” Funny and wonderfully subversive. Crossposted at PULSE.

4 October, 2009 · 4 Comments

Notables

One of the most valuable things you can do for yourself if you are a news-junkie and political animal is to subscribe to one or another of the social bookmarking … Continue reading

18 May, 2008 · 3 Comments

Phil Rockstroh: Roasting Marshmallows on the American Reichstag Fire to Come

I happened to bookmark this thoughtful piece by Phil Rockstroh a couple of days ago (see PG Picks). Thanks to Phil sending it, I had the welcome opportunity to re-read … Continue reading

29 July, 2007 · 5 Comments

Presidents On Preemptive War

Here is what past US Presidents’ stated positions have been on preemptive war (now updated with Barack Obama): Abraham Lincoln: Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he … Continue reading

29 July, 2007 · 6 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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