The Blair Witch Project Roadmap To Middle East Peace
Posted on April 30, 2003 - Filed Under government | Leave a Comment
A “peace process” that involves increased power and gains for the Israelis and compromise and frustration for the Palestinians is not realistic and will only lead to more strife and death. Only when both parties realize that they are pawns in a larger, more global game - and they start thinking as humans as […]
Read More..>>I Am Not You Are Not Me
Posted on April 20, 2003 - Filed Under culture-society-history, government | Leave a Comment
This country is getting so sickeningly polarized that you can’t even say “Where’s the bathroom?” without someone vehemently agreeing or disagreeing with you. It was insane factionalization of thought like this that allowed freaks like Hitler to take over. And, I don’t mean just Bush. It’s the whole aura of fascism (be it the “conservatives” […]
Read More..>>Interesting Time-Space Continuum Idea
Posted on April 10, 2003 - Filed Under books, science & technology | Leave a Comment
In Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut’s non-human Tralfamadoreans see all time at once like a mountain range and just look along it; their viewpoint is contrasted with that of the human protagonist, Billy Pilgrim. Vonnegut’s handling of the difficulties humans have overcoming their time-bound senses may be suggestive in this instance.
Read More..>>On ‘The Core’
Posted on April 10, 2003 - Filed Under geology, movies/tv, science & technology | Leave a Comment
Well, you have to go if only for the cool, but completely gratuitous, special effects of whole cities being demolished by volcanic upheavals and earthquakes. Never mind that more than 90% of the world is severely underpopulated and underwater; geologic catastrophes of the celluloid variety always seem to pick New York City and Tokyo […]
Read More..>>Toppling Statues
Posted on April 9, 2003 - Filed Under government | Leave a Comment
MSH says:
Before you let the notion of “maybe this invasion was a good thing after all” get to you …
I’ve been watching and listening to all the propaganda being pushed into our alimentary canals by the media — but no one at all has mentioned just how tiny all that crowd actually was. I […]
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Posted on April 1, 2003 - Filed Under government | Leave a Comment
It should be noted that Wilfred Owen, friend of Robert Graves, and Sasson, died weeks before the WWI Armistice in combat. Such was the slaughter that ¼ of the male poplulation of Britain and Northern Ireland were killed (hence, the lost generation).
Dulce et Decorum est
by Wilfred Owen
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing […]
