September 2011
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Italia
One day some how, I’ll set sail to Venice A journey I dream devoid of menace The city’s watery paths I’ll cross Fingers running through walls of moss Staring far away at the cityscape Wondering how will they all escape Neptune’s fury when he opens the gate And drowns a city he surely doth hate On that day I’ll set sail for drier Rome Find a queen, and call her and...
What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong
In literature, when creating characters and crafting the details of their exploits and doings, a writer must provide them with as much justification as possible. Even, and particularly the villainous. We must understand why they go about the way they do, even while despising their heinous acts.
“Why are so many bashers of the idea of ‘government’, running to be...”
Midnight Stranger
She passed me by on Lover’s Lane A sweet, melodic sounding Jane Four steps past, I turned around Her moving frame, such joy abound Courage I muster, towards her I go How will it all end, I can not know Her sudden halt, causes me to shudder Blown to bits like canon fodder Her eyes I see and in them a smile Calling me to walk that last mile A few steps though they be Feel much farther away to...
My Endless Love, Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
“It occurred to him, in a moment of sudden reflection, that only one’s...”
– Darren George, A Short Story of Mine (Indigo Grey)
“There is an old joke: Some say god is dead, some say god is dad.”
“Women in Saudi Arabia will finally be granted the right to vote. What century is...”
Christopher Hitchens on the Death Penalty →
A Retreat: The Tyrant Returns →
Will You Be There, Michael Jackson
Everything is Everything, Lauryn Hill
“Constantly dodging the flying arrows of ennui.”
“To autumn’s arrival…………”
“Turns out I shared a point of philosophical commonality with early Islamic...”
“We have a better tradition. We aren’t just arid secularists and...”
– Christopher Hitchens, in an Authors@Google Lecture.
“I don’t mind a world with religion in it. There are some beautiful tenets within...”
– Brad Pitt
“I pass through time; or does time pass through me?”
“It’s been settled by my conscience; I simply cannot vote for anyone in...”
“Sometimes my readings and meditations depress me….but I go on. I will have...”
“A troubling aspect of the death penalty is its inevitable tendency to make...”
“So, despite copious doubts and recantings from seven of the nine eye-witnesses...”
I had begun nursing some sympathy for Rene Descartes owing to the fact that his philosophy on Rationalism has suffered a brutal lashing from the empiricists, and so severe has been the onslaught that it does inspire pity. However, that all came to a screeching halt when I came upon his thoughts on the nature of animals. You see, old Rene believed, and the mostd deranged of his Cartesians still do,...
“The connection between stupidity and cruelty is a close one.”
– Christopher Hitchens, Political Animals
The Case of Troy Davis
By now, most of those who pay attention to events outside their own immediate lives have heard of Troy Davis. Davis was convicted of the 1989 slaying of an off-duty officer named Mark MacPhail. I do not wish to argue in favor of Davis’ innocence, and the killing of MacPhail is one that goes far beyond the tragic. However, in a death penalty case, when a man is convicted solely based on...
“To amuse, not bemuse.”
All of the Lights, Kanye West
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“An evening in some form of conversation with The Hitch is bound to be pleasant.”
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“Ask yourself what you are worried about if same-sex marriage is legalized....”
– Why A Heterosexual, Married, North Carolinian Father Of Three Cares About LGBT Equality (via hyperbeam)
“Whenever I assume the dialectic form of argument with myself, I always find I...”
Rick Perry just uttered the asinine words in describing his foreign policy if he is elected president, “As an American and as a Christian, I would stand with Israel.” This is precisely why that Texan idiot will not be elected president.
Yes, all decent people stand with Israel and also with the Palestinians, but this religiosity has no place in the government of a secular society....
“Rick Perry brought his hideous self to New York City during the opening of the...”
