Thursday, July 8, 2004
In the shadows of torchlight
The silence of tyranny is the fear of free men. The easiest and simplest way to subjugate anyone is too take away their hope. Nothing more has to be done because while we may die the death of the body without food or water, we will surely die the death of the spirit when we are deprived of hope. Do...
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Sunday, June 6, 2004
Jellybean Reflections
No more mornings in America. While President Bush tries valiantly to cloak himself in the mantle of now deceased former President Reagan he misses the mark. Reagan was a construction as much as a reality. The polite fiction that his Alzheimer’s disease did not manifest itself until he left the oval...
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Monday, May 24, 2004
Do you have Bloggers Neurosis?
Bloggers Neurosis, or the barely known, seldom acted on notion that what you think actually matters to anyone else. Is there a cure for Bloggers Neurosis, the symptoms including incessant checking of your posts to see if any has bothered to comment? A nervous almost compulsive defense of the...
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Saturday, May 22, 2004
Tender fears in terror
Can you contemplate your navel? The soft, delicate place that makes you human and cares for you. Delicious moments of comprehension laced with internal pain. We are all people of distinction, we should all matter but do we? Gender and the politics of poverty. A simple passion play that extols the...
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Thursday, May 20, 2004
With a velvety rose pressed to ashen lips
It is with a profound sense of regret that I come before you today to deliver the following news. Fate conspires to rob us of our youth, our vitality and eventually our memories. I got to thinking about memory today and was struck by the realization that memory is not only selective it is amazingly...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Treason, Sex and the infallible logic of Impeachment
Sap. It’s not just a word anymore. However, it will come to represent the entire debacle that has become the US involvement in Iraq. Special Access Program, the US government’s way of doing something that it has no legal right to do. This is not going to be regurgitation on the piece first appearing...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004
A new spirit of cooperation?
International perils require international solutions. The United Nations has been a toothless tiger for too long. Clearly with the failure in Iraq its time to reinvent the United Nations. If the nations of the world are truly serious about ending the threats of International terror and redressing...
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Monday, May 10, 2004
Shot at Sunrise
Liberty has a life. It can be wounded and brought low by the basest of acts or the most gentle of lies. Its preservation is something all good people of conscience swear too but not something that they can ever condone or support. The wounds left on the Republic by the actions of some of her sons...
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Saturday, May 8, 2004
America's darkest hour and her eternal shame
The land of eternal shame. "The elements we found were tantamount to torture," Pierre Kraehenbuehl, operations director for the Swiss-based International Committee of the Red Cross. There you have it in black and white. From this mornings LA Times and no doubt festooned across papers the nation...
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Friday, May 7, 2004
Unzip me, please?
Morality and fear run hand in hand, like lovers along a beach. Civilization has constantly relied on morality to provide a moral compass and fear to enforce the status quo. Conventions, while they are often flaunted are always obeyed if one knows what is good for them. What about you, are you sheep...
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