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Dear Senators and Congressmen

I am writing from my home in Kalamazoo urging you resist Obama’s decision to accelerate the war in Afghanistan by refusing to sign any relevant expenditure bills.

Why? First because the United States simply cannot afford further military expenditures in the middle of a deep recession. Second, because this ( Read more... )

Sex and Politics:

Woody Allen as an Anti-American?

"Love is the answer - but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions."

-Woody Allen

"Let your pride follow your folly"

- Frederick Nietzsch, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

This June at a picnic gathering of Kalamazoo peaceniks in Milham Park, after cute ( Read more... )

Beyond Troop Withdrawal:

American Hubris and the Decolonization of Afghanistan

A crisis occurs sometimes lasting for decades. This exceptional duration means that incurable structural contradictions have revealed themselves and that despite this the political forces which are struggling to conserve and defend the existing structure itself ( Read more... )

He wept in sobs and silence ( Read more... )

* * * * * * * *

Tears wept of pavement.

Eyes ripped of scars.

Child stripped, now bare momentum.

shhhh... there!

F'ya sits, a charred and sunburnt frog . . .

While elsewhere, croons a man:

“How dare you spit at me!

Dreamer! Venomous dreamer, lie-weaver,

your ( Read more... )

My aged grandfather, deaf and bellicose, wearing only a hospital gown, glares out from hollow eyes, skin stretched tight against the protruding skeletal form (which I cannot say is quite “his”), and states:  “I have not lived since the operation.”

The “operation” requires no further questions.  The old surgical scar runs vertically down from his ( Read more... )

Hi Chris,

Have you seen Notre Musique by Godard?  Et vous avez recommande la film La Femme Nikita, n'est pas?  So . . . . Queer Theory for development as a professional philosopher?  Hmmm... I love my Queer friends, but I don't know if I'm interested. . . .   Oh but what I love I have for these New Left revolutionaries.  Democracy Now!'s Amy ( Read more... )

We must first recognize that love is the nucleus of life . . . Today, instead of looking outward from the inside, we are trying to look inward from the outside. In this way, we will not be able to see anything clearly. -Ammachi

her mystery x the site of my ( Read more... )