A piece of Walt Whitman on this historic day: From 1884 If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show, ‘Twould not be you, Niagara – nor you, ye limitless prairies – nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado, Nor you, Yosemite – nor Yellowstone, with [...]
Posted on November 4th, 2008 by Shotts
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Sara and I had our only date in five months tonight. We ate dinner and saw HP and the Order. It was of course my choice of movie, but she enjoyed it almost as much as I did. We both liked it. I recently read an article which talked about Rowling’s insistence that the themes [...]
Posted on August 16th, 2007 by Ned
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I’m bored with Quotation Monday. In honor of the last installment of this series tradition I present the venerable and oh so quotable Oscar Wilde: Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Posted on May 13th, 2007 by J.E.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, [...]
Posted on April 30th, 2007 by J.E.
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From a January 1, 2007 New York Times op-ed, Folly’s Antidote. This is Schlesinger’s last published word on history before his death on February 28. Sometimes, when I am particularly depressed, I ascribe our behavior to stupidity — the stupidity of our leadership, the stupidity of our culture. Three decades ago, we suffered defeat in [...]
Posted on April 16th, 2007 by J.E.
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing [...]
Posted on April 11th, 2007 by J.E.
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How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society. ~ Samuel Barber
Posted on April 9th, 2007 by J.E.
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Posted on March 6th, 2007 by Ned
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Posted on March 5th, 2007 by Ned
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For those of you who want an update, I received my first response to my letters to my two Congressman and my eight reps. from Ron Kind (democrat in house). It was a form letter, emphasizing that Kind voted for both intitiatives that the White House has passed regarding Sudan and Chad conflicts. The second [...]
Posted on November 20th, 2006 by Ned
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Dear friends: Just a note to let you know that at last I finished Gandhi’s autobiography (whew!). Good but tedious at times. It does not even cover the latter part of his life when he really drew the most recognition. I also recently re-read a book I had first read in NY, called the Ninemile [...]
Posted on October 4th, 2006 by Ned
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It’s not very good, but I just felt like posting something different…the following is true and I put it in a poem while I was in college. V. The police called to tell me my car window was reported “found shattered.” I slip on my shoes and white T-shirt and break out of the front [...]
Posted on September 27th, 2006 by Tobias
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So now that I know how to do this, I’m going to repost those other things. My current reading list (in case anyone gives a hoot). The Politics of Nonviolent Action – Gene Sharp My Experiments With Truth – Gandhi Provocations – Spiritual Writings of Soren Kierkegaard Resistance, Rebellion, and Death – Albert Camus Here’s [...]
Posted on August 31st, 2006 by Ned
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