Darke Opinions

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... Sign in to see full entry.

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... Sign in to see full entry.

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... Sign in to see full entry.

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... Sign in to see full entry.

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... Sign in to see full entry.

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... Sign in to see full entry.

"We stand for a culture of life in which every person counts and every person matters. We will not stand for the treatment of any life as a commodity to be experimented upon, exploited or cloned," –President George W. Bush President Pinocchio spoke last night at a GOP fundraiser and mouthed the... Sign in to see full entry.

Like each of you, I have thought about money from time to time. How do we make it, keep more of it and learn to use it wisely for the common good. Any consideration of money has to also take into account the concept of debt. For the moment, I will not discuss personal debt, though the opinions I am... Sign in to see full entry.

Blogging is the intellectual equivalent of masturbation. Cathartic release and self imposed empire all rolled into one package. Subtle but no less dangerous forms of narcissism have landed many of histories more interesting characters into asylums or the gallows. Still we can see our lives with a... Sign in to see full entry.

Why? Women scare men its that simple. I have no other conclusion to reach when I look at the systemic violence and oppression against women. I can draw no other conclusion that deep down at least some men are terrified of women. Is it the fear of something that they do not understand? Is it the fear... Sign in to see full entry.