“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
You Can Listen Here The pace is increasing. Faster and faster we seem to roll forward from one day to the next overwhelmed by President Trump’s decisions, tweet-reactions to criticisms and reversals, leaks, weird phone calls to foreign leaders and overall wild behavior. In a few weeks he already seems to be approaching the kind of velocity that will only produce catastrophes. Political physics is every bit as unforgiving as the laws that govern […]
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You Can Listen Here Dogs don’t get irony or lying. They don’t understand politics. They get heat and cold and hunger. They understand cruelty, and even upon reaching safety will wince at a raised hand or voice. They will retreat. They will try to hide. They understand fear, and loneliness, and the absence of love and of touch. Dogs who have been on the receiving end of torture or beatings or prolonged neglect recover […]
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You Can Listen Here Contempt is a form of blindness. It is arrogance made of a story we tell ourselves because we wish to be superior or because we are afraid. Whatever long-form the opposition to President Trump eventually becomes, it cannot be contemptuous of those who voted for him. To fall into contempt for his voters is a terrible mistake, one HRC made with her comment on “deplorables”. It assumes the worst of millions […]
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You Can Listen Here “President Donald Trump declared Wednesday he believes torture works as his administration readied a sweeping review of how America conducts the war on terror.” ABC News, 1.25.17 Murder is the unalterable ending act, the destruction in another human being of the same eternity you feel inside yourself every waking minute. Torture stands in the shadows with murder, often its companion, blank faced or smiling or angry or banal, ‘just doing […]
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