Month: March 2004
Amending Arendt: Camp X-Ray Reveals Banal Evil
Posted on March 23, 2004 in Atrocity Morals & Ethics
What “allegedly” happened in Camp X-Ray wasn’t torture: it was sexual harassment, not unlike what Catherine McKinnon and others saw happening to women in the American workplace.
Dripping Cave Outing
Posted on March 23, 2004 in Photos
From left to right: Bart, Donna, Diana (back), and, of course, Lynn.
Went to Dripping Cave over the weekend with friends, a trip that wouldn’t have excited me except for the good company. We needed an easy trail because we — especially me — were out of shape. The flowers hadn’t reared from the soil yet and I came home with a choice sunburn that irritated a nerve in my arm so that I felt the pain in the thumb and the shoulder.
Bad Words
Posted on March 23, 2004 in Censorship
F*ck. This topic’s like an oily rag waiting for spontaneous combustion: the arguments are old, predictable, and sure to enflame.
Jesus of the Plastic Injection Molding Machine
Posted on March 23, 2004 in Myths & Mysticism
Christ spoke of lilies not artificial flowers.
Paul Goodman Buried
Posted on March 22, 2004 in Culture
A man who may have the most to say about our age and time is silenced by the modern marketplace that he criticized.
What is Going into the Notebooks
Posted on March 22, 2004 in Poetry Writing
I’ve been writing a lot of poetry lately, a few concentrated lines taking the place of the prose that I can turn out page after page.
Anaphora
Posted on March 21, 2004 in Poems
I am writing at my desk.
I am writing at my desk, pounding the keys of the keyboard till the acid-weakened faces erode under my fingertips.
I am writing at my desk to fill the box that says “Entry Body” because I abhor the naked space.
Dream
Posted on March 21, 2004 in Dreams
I rarely comment on dreams, but this one seems to tell a truth.
Lopadotmachoselachoga-
leokranioleipsanodrimhy-
potrimmatosilphioparao-
melitokatakechymenoki-
chlepikossyphophattope-
risteralektrynoptekephal-
liokigkiopeleioagolosi-
raiobaphetraganop-
terygon Anyone?
Posted on March 20, 2004 in Eating
I can eat whatever I want so long as I control the portions.
War’s Anniversary
Posted on March 19, 2004 in Accountability Occupation of Iraq War
I’m for remembering all the dead, American and Iraqi….no more soldier-hating presidents.
Dumpster Treasures
Posted on March 19, 2004 in Roundup
Much of what passes the eye in a cursory reading deserves a closer look: what the mind writes off as garbage may be worth a second look.
Search Function Implemented
Posted on March 18, 2004 in Site News
You can now search the site! Scroll down the sitebar for the Google toolbar. (Thanks to Gary of TFS Reluctant for helping me out with this.)
