Hope and Trust? No way, Barack!
Monday, May 25th, 2009It’s a good and honorable thing to respect those who have given their lives for the war-prone decisions of American governmental and corporate leaders. Those who serve in the military don’t make war, they simply perform—kill and die—because America’s leaders demand it of them. Leaders make war; citizen soldiers simply follow orders, often blindly because [...]
Would the last person who knows why we’re fighting please…?
Monday, October 27th, 2008Bill Moyers on his Oct. 24, 2008, PBS Journal, said, “The last person who knew why we are fighting died a long time ago.” Moyers didn’t know the author of the statement and a quick Google by Steve, my right and left hand man, didn’t yield an answer, which doesn’t really matter, because the wisdom [...]
Mountains and water and softball in Bishop
Saturday, July 12th, 2008Faithful Steve drove us up to Bishop, California, today, the pavement hot enough to sizzle an ice cube, although the Sierra peaks to our left held brush strokes of snow in their granite crevices. Brush strokes of snow, etc., can be blamed on Steve, who occasionally waxes poetic, his wax melting today. Of [...]
Vonnegut, still teaching after all these years
Saturday, April 26th, 2008“He [Kurt Vonnegut] didn’t think the war in Iraq was going to happen, right up until it did. It broke his heart not because he gave a damn about Iraq but because he loved America and believed that the land and people of Lincoln and Twain would find a way to be right. [...]
Jerry Falwell and John McCain: killing and the conscience of America
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Jerry Falwell said during a CNN televised debate with Jesse Jackson back in 2004, “I’m for the president to chase them [Muslim terrorists] all over the world. If it takes 10 years, blow them all away in the name of the Lord .”
Fallwell likely spoke (he died in 2007), not for Evangelical Christians [...]
