Aug 24 2008

Layers

 There is another, deeper, emotional/spiritual layer to this entire problem.  I used to try to explain it but it falls on secular ears, and is largely ignored as insignificant.  It is anything but, and anyone who cares about justice and…  [more]

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Aug 20 2008

If Americans only knew

 What do we really cherish?  America absolves itself the same way a smoker convinces himself he’ll never get cancer.  In both cases, there is plenty of available information from which the truth of the matter can be gleaned, but that…  [more]

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Aug 19 2008

Rick Warren’s forum

 I’ve been meaning to ask you if you watched the Saturday night Saddleback forum and, if so, what you thought of it.  I’ll go ahead and give you my two-cents’ take… First, Rick Warren came across as a little too…  [more]

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Aug 09 2008

Mahmoud Darwish – dead at 67

 http://mahmouddarwish.com/english/introduction.htm  A woman asked the cloud: please enfold my loved one My clothes are soaked with his blood If you shall not be rain, my love Be trees Saturated with fertility, be trees And if you shall not be trees, …  [more]

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Jul 24 2008

A day in the life of George Orwell’s America

 I watched Obama’s Berlin speech today on MSNBC.  As soon as it was over, the bobble-head commentators (those erudite members of our once-vaunted Fourth Estate castrati) started trying to resuscitate the fading McCain in their desperation to keep the election…  [more]

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Jul 10 2008

Rabbi Fox

Ms. Gassaway, I had hoped the rabbi’s recent rant would be disregarded by your readers as the specious partisan pandering it obviously is to anyone who understands even the smallest bits of Middle Eastern history and contemporary realities “over there.” …  [more]

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Jun 15 2008

The wolf we feed

 “So it is that democracy without honest information creates the illusion of popular consent, while enhancing the power of the state and the privileged interests protected by it.  Democracy without accountability creates the illusion of popular control, while offering ordinary…  [more]

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