It’s interesting that the Bush administration changed its tune on a cease-fire in the latest Israel-Hezbollah conflict right after the Saudis came out on the side of and end to hostilities, isn’t it?
But I’m going to leave that alone for a second to look at the longer view. Yo! Israel! Yo! Hamas! Yo! Hezbollah! You’ve [...]
I don’t know if this is true or not, that a dog smells the way we see, but his olfaction is so much richer. It’s both more broad and more deep: a dog is aware of the tiniest gradations of airborne chemistry; he can pick out a man’s stink from the cacophony of ragweed, mildew, [...]
Since the bulk of my work involves teaching freshman composition, I’m frequently confronted with the prototypical disaffected late-adolescent who finds everything boring. He is bored by politics, bored by peculiar social practices, bored by gastronomy, astronomy, theology and beer.
Yes, that’s right: today’s college freshman is even bored by beer, or claims to be anyway.
This makes [...]
Yesterday, the blogger mcsnee noted that the Bush administration’s lack of diplomatic efforts to stop the current conflict between Israel and Palestine is influenced by the President’s adherence to an apocalyptic form of conservative Christianity. And this is no doubt a big part of what is going on. But we can’t discount the power of [...]
On this Independence Day, it might do us well to consider what forces now imprison us, aside from our corrupt government, of course. For as much as I fear the current occupiers of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and as much as I see the need to re-ignite the revolutionary fire to kick out the current King [...]