This from today’s Washington Post: mistaking anger for political wisdom is a dangerous luxury in democracies. It can become an all-consuming fire that destroys rather than builds. For the power-hungry and opportunistic, anger is an especially attractive instrument of manipulation in the political toolbox. The especially angry year of 1968 ended with the election of [...]
He awakened as a man awakens out of a drunk- hazy brained and foggy swimming slowly and painfully back toward reality. He awakened tapping with his head against the pillow. The tapping by now had become so much a part of awakening that the first glimmer of consciousness found him already tapping and later on [...]
“The people I’ve spoken to today said the cartoons just welcomed Muhammad to the beloved Danish tradition of satirical humour.” http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ Here’s an article that shows the cartoons that have enraged many Muslims (and sypathetic members of other religions) in their original context. It also offers an English translation of the editorial that accompanied the [...]
(i asked the editors for a piece of writing from them and an image or two and this is what neil sent me. if you get lost during neil’s bashful mini bio, skip ahead to the quote he chose to include. the juxtaposition of ideas made me smile, maybe it’ll give you a buzz too. [...]
“The failure of communication, (…) allows precisely for the bursting open of pity, generosity, and love. Such failure invites us to find ways to discover others besides knowing. Communication breakdown is thus a salutary check on the hubris of the ego. Communication, if taken as the reduplication of the self (or its thoughts) in the [...]
Detroit, Detroit, You got a hell of a hockey team You’ve got a left-handed way of making a man sign up on that automotive dream. Paul Simon: Papa Hobo.
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