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The bright side of the dawn of the nuclear age

“The most spectacular event of the past half century is one that did not occur. We have enjoyed 60 years without nuclear weapons exploded in anger.” — Thomas Schelling, Acceptance … Continue reading

10 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Iranian Science Teachers May Be Enriching Students

Well, I never! 8O TellItLikeItIs (aka the wonderful Curt) has come by this great quote from the excellent Onion. Here ’tis: “We have reason to believe that specially trained Iranian … Continue reading

1 October, 2006 · 2 Comments

Ain’t that the truth :)

“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.” — Alfred Adler  

26 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Gush Shalom ad in Haaretz, Sept. 22

Refreshing to read a good citation of this quote as an antidote to the tired refrain from the Israeli establishment that “there is no partner for peace” – hogwash and … Continue reading

25 September, 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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