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Deranged Bedfellows

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.—George W. Bush, Inaugural Address, 2005…we will not stop at this point, but will pursue the evil force into its own lands,Continue reading “Deranged Bedfellows”

muddle

Where have I been? What have I been up to? I could concoct a story, and believe me, it would be a hell of a story. But I’m tired. I can’t think straight.Can’t think straight. How apt an expression. Thoughts refuse to proceed in orderly straight lines but curl back and founder in the murkyContinue reading “muddle”

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You don’t know how long you’ve been laying here in the park. You only know you can’t move. Outwardly, you are as inanimate as a piece of lead. Within, however, is all churning motion. You can’t believe she rejected you. You started the day in love’s vise grip; you lay here now, crushed.Endlessly, compulsively, youContinue reading “…”

Big Brass Balls

No doubt there will be better analysis offered elsewhere of the curious example of double-speak and logical dysfunction displayed in Douglas Feith’s op-ed in today’s Washington Post, but this stands out for sheer nerve: In evaluating our policy toward Iraq after Sept. 11, 2001, my office realized that CIA analysts were suppressing some of theirContinue reading “Big Brass Balls”

ephemera

Shingle Fights. You never knew when you might come under attack. The wind-searing sound of the tightly and rapidly spinning projectile slicing through the air gave no warning until it was too close to evade: a square piece of asphalt shingle, torn from the roof of one of the vacant houses and hurled like aContinue reading “ephemera”

Well Then, How Would You Undo This Voodoo That We Do?

Fool me once, shame on, shame on you, eh, fool me, uh–can’t get fooled again.–George W. Bush The newest trend in conventional wisdom regarding Iraq, going as unexamined by the major media as every previous stage of denial masquerading as incontrovertible fact regarding this war, reads something like this: Iraq is certain to descend intoContinue reading “Well Then, How Would You Undo This Voodoo That We Do?”

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EXT. TYPICAL SMALL TOWN MAIN STREET, CIRCA 1962, DAY A malt shop with a young soda jerk wearing white apron and hat out front, sweeping the sidewalk; next door a pair of old men lounge out in front of a barber shop, chewing the fat; kids race down the street on bicycles, a pet dogContinue reading “…”

Read: "Anti-Racism"*

To counter Rousset and his like—and keep “progressive” intellectuals in line—Communist parties exercised the moral lever of “anti-Fascism.” This had the appeal of familiarity. For many Europeans their first experience of political mobilization was in the anti-Fascist, Popular-Front leagues of the 1930s. For most people the Second World War was remembered as a victory overContinue reading “Read: "Anti-Racism"*”

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An obnoxious, industrial version of what sounds like Wagner, reverberating at ear stinging volume and smothered by an overwhelming, testicle vibrating bass, has me cringing and cupping my hands over my ears. Ballerinas with shaved heads wearing brown shirts and fetishistic black leather tutus are flitting toward me (somehow they manage to glide gracefully inContinue reading “*”

Too Right Feet

But life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.–Arthur Schopenhauer You may have already read about the “BNP ballerina”, Simone Clarke, whose employer, the English National Ballet, is under pressure to fire her for her membership in the British National Party. Clarke was outed as a member ofContinue reading “Too Right Feet”