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‘All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.’
posted at 1:51 AM | comments (6) | dread/ennui, politics/history
Billy: I’m scared Poncho. Poncho: Bullshit! You ain’t afraid of no man! Billy: There’s something out there waiting for us, and it ain’t no man. We’re all gonna die.
posted at 10:37 PM | comments (3) | politics/history
I’ve committed human rights abuses in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do — and I have done it — and God forgives me for it.
posted at 5:02 PM | comments (3) | politics/history
Here, take this ratty old pamphlet. For the striking workers and teachers in France.
posted at 11:15 PM | comments (2) | politics/history
I am still offering to volunteer if they do some cosmetic changes to their name. They have their hearts in the right place, unlike most other parties who have their hearts near their wallets. But “Communist?” I will look like a “Communards” fan if I start wearing red stars and buttons with the sickle-and-hammer thing. Nothing against Mr. Sommerville…
posted at 5:31 PM | comments (3) | politics/history
After being barred three times from taking his elected seat in the Georgia House of Representatives because of his vocal opposition to the war in Vietnam, Julian Bond wrote a short comic book called Vietnam. Vietnam is targeted to African Americans, connecting anti-war politics with the movement for civil rights and equality in America. Its history of the wars…
posted at 1:22 PM | comments (5) | politics/history
pointing out inconsistency is perhaps too easy lately
posted at 1:33 PM | grrr, politics/history
Executive Mansion, Washington, December 21, 1898. The destruction of the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Manila by the United States naval squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Dewey, followed by the reduction of the city and the surrender of the Spanish forces, practically effected the conquest of the Philippine Islands and the suspension of the Spanish sovereignty therein. With the…
posted at 6:42 PM | grrr, politics/history
Saturday appears to be a big day for rallies against the looming war in Iraq. Footstools will be provided, and at exactly 1930 GMT, peace-loving people around the world will simultaneously leap to the ground, unleashing colossal seismic forces that we expect will engulf the White House in a fury of tidal waves, swiftly sweeping it into international waters,…
posted at 12:26 PM | comments (8) | grrr, politics/history
I think one of the more frightening words I learned as a freshman in high school was one favored especially by a certain prominent and infamously amoral German American statesman: realpolitik. I’m nearly twice as old now, and equally horrified, equally afraid, though the men of power couldn’t be any more different. They act in the name of peace,…
posted at 12:52 AM | comments (2) | grrr, politics/history