the lurking Truth … (09/06/13)

“All your life you live so close to Truth that it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye … And then, when something nudges it into outline, it’s like being ambushed by a grotesque.” ~ Tim Roth (playing Guildenstern in the brilliant film remake of Tom Stoppard’s brilliant 1990 play, “Rosencrantz & […]

Solving the Empire’s Problem … (09/06/2017)

Dear Syria … (09/06/13)

“If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own.” ~ Wes Nisker War is on the news … It’s time to go make Peace.

to Love your country … (09/05/13)

CALLING ALL TRUE PATRIOTS … Well, well, well — it looks like America’s “leaders” have finally agreed on something … NOT on healthcare for the uninsured ill, mind you; and NOT on education for their inner-city youth, or on halting Monsanto’s continued assault on American food crops, or on making animal cruelty laws consistent & […]

The Chicken AND the Egg … (09/05/2017)

war sucks, allWays … (09/04/13)

In these times of misinformation, fear & darkness, here is a Great Truth well worth remembering: Without exception, war sucks. “One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful […]

An assembly line of Rage & Fear … (09/04/2017)

 

The Road to Peace … (09/03/13)

Right now — in this very moment — we stand at a nexus where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost’s familiar poem, they are not equal. The road we have long been traveling — the road that continues on straight ahead towards the horizon — is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway […]

In dire need of Fools … (09/02/2017)

The never-ending Democracy … (09/01/2017)

war is … absolutely nothing (08/31/13)

”Those who assert that evil means can lead to good ends are deceiving themselves.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. Let’s face it, the American government is at some point going to make the same mistake that it made in Iraq. It is going to make that mistake in Syria … or in Iran … or […]