Month: April 2003
Stop Signs
Posted on April 15, 2003 in California Watch Childhood Neighborhood
Someone went around my home town of San Bernardino, California, carrying a stencil and a can of silver spray paint in about 1970.
Whoa Joel?
Posted on April 15, 2003 in Citizenship Crosstalk Liberals & Progressives War
If liberals won’t treat people like me as human beings and talk seriously about our grievances, it will not be our fault if we vote our consciences. That’s what a thoughtful and informed voter is supposed to do.
End of the War?
Posted on April 15, 2003 in War
It’s arrogance of the highest order, suggesting that if news of an Afghani or Iraqi death doesn’t reach us in our comfortable homes it doesn’t happen.
A Prediction
Posted on April 15, 2003 in War
You can rest assured that if Bush wants his war against Syria badly enough, he’ll get it.
Tax Time Power Dive
Posted on April 15, 2003 in War
Today, all we Americans are expected to put in the forms that document that we’ve helped to pay for the everlasting war that most of us don’t want.
Velveteen Rabbit
Posted on April 14, 2003 in Culture
Someone tell me: what happened to the skin horse?
Tomorrow
Posted on April 13, 2003 in Misc
Tomorrow I hope to blog about the world and not just the war.
I’m so sick of the war. It sucks every other concern into it and erases all pleasant talk if you let it on your blog just once.
No More an Apology than Deserved
Posted on April 13, 2003 in IRC/Chat War
Two weeks ago, I mentioned comments by an unnamed American to the effect that John Komyakevich “got shot because he was an idiot”. In fairness now, I must face up to the fact that this war supporter was actually referring to the gun man.
A Rebuttal to Post-War(?) McCarthyism
Posted on April 12, 2003 in Citizenship War
Pardon me, but I am an American and I am exercising my right of free speech to criticize this adventure. No, it is not preserved by force of arms. It is preserved by using it fearlessly.
On Contempt for Semantics
Posted on April 12, 2003 in Thinking
War is the thing we’re trying to prevent here. It is in all our best interests to use the right word(s) that zeroes in on what we’re trying to do.
