…the United States Marine Corps Recruit Depot, an eight week college for the phony tough and the crazy brave.–The Short Timers, Gustav Hasford Behold a Marine, a mere shadow and reminiscience of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, buried under arms with funereal accompaniments…–Thoreau, Civil Disobedience I’ve just finished talking to a kidContinue reading “A Soldier, and Brave”
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Tora! Tora! Tyra!
My power of concentration makes a tempestuous and fickle concubine most days. I try to have a moment with her when I can, because I never know when she’ll be both present and yielding. She has been completely absent for the past few days in particular, like a cuckolding slut who’s gone missing. It’s offContinue reading “Tora! Tora! Tyra!”
The Blood is the Life, The Oil is the Strife
You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?Talking Heads Our friend Ziel over at Lying Eyes has thrown down the gauntlet, challenging those of us who have asserted that the war in Iraq is more about oil than preemption or Wilsonian ambition to put up or shut up. The point Ziel makes isContinue reading “The Blood is the Life, The Oil is the Strife”
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Three days. It doesn’t seem possible that it’s only been three days since Mac died, the last of a crew of seven which once seemed so few; now an unbearable weight of responsibility, a psychic pain to accompany the physical pain in your belly which is killing you. The ice has built up overnight again,Continue reading “…”
The Baja 500
Supporting unprecedented increases in immigration levels, as those who have taken up arms against the House’s “enforcement only” bill in favor of the Senate approach do, strikes me as a clever way to support laissez-faire economics while posturing as a high minded liberal—and the highest minded of the piously liberal at that, the egalitarian anti-racist.Continue reading “The Baja 500”
Spin Cycle
Indulge me a moment. Images merge and blend in the memory; things once seen in stark daylight or secondhand in snapshots, melding with television programs and picture shows, coalescing around imagination and vanity, clouded by dreams; the real, the transferred, the imagined and the wished intermingle, separate, and intermingle endlessly. All these charged electrons ricochetingContinue reading “Spin Cycle”
Iran, I Ran So Far Away
I have an idea on how George Bush can weaken Iran’s hand in the Middle East.An immediate, precipitous pull-out from Iraq. The inevitable civil war is the last thing the Iranians want. Of course full scale civil war may be inevitable anyway. Our continuing presence there is buying Iran more time to determine which madContinue reading “Iran, I Ran So Far Away”
Damned Lies
Sunday’s New York Times continues the paper’s campaign on behalf of the Senate approach to immigration reform in a lubricious feature on Colorado Democrat Senator Ken Salazar: “The story of Hispanics in America has not been told,” Mr. Salazar said in a recent interview in his office here. “My election and my profile in theContinue reading “Damned Lies”
Ducks
Well I don’t know how you take in all the shit you seeNo don’t believe anyone and most of all don’t believe meBelieve youG-ddamn right it’s a beautiful day—Eels, Mr. E’s Beautiful Blues Who would not choose to follow the sound of running waters?—Thomas Mann Today I went down to the water, to a parkContinue reading “Ducks”
Mos’ Def’
Following up on the post below, Seattle Public Schools has now posted an explanation for the disappearance of their controversial “Definitions of Racism”: In response to the numerous concerns voiced regarding definitions posted on the Equity & Race website, we have decided to revise our website in a way that will hopefully provide more contextContinue reading “Mos’ Def’”
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