“We did what we could but it was not enough because I found you here. All of you are not just names on the wall, you are alive. Your blood’s on my hands, your screams in my ears, your eyes… more →
redosopher wrote 5 days ago: Time is winding down on our course, and it keeps popping up in our reading selections. Nietzsche, wh … more →
bluenred wrote 2 weeks ago: “We did what we could but it was not enough because I found you here. All of you are not just … more →
Dr. Spots wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve decided when I am reincarnated, that I am going to come back as Edward R. Murrow. I don … more →
nowyearseven wrote 1 month ago: Another disastrous day. I’m covering the previous entry with my hand. Today is another day and … more →
bluenred wrote 1 month ago: Jane Mayer, our correspondent from The Dark Side, has filed a valuable piece with the New Yorker on … more →
bluenred wrote 1 month ago: US Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North is emerging now as the Charles Manson figure in this hideous scandal … more →
Sean Kohingarara Sturm wrote 1 month ago: Love of fate is not (resentful) submission to our fate, i.e.fatalism; it is (joyful) struggle with o … more →
bluenred wrote 1 month ago: A 5000-year-old sunken city off the southern Peloponnese is the latest candidate for the fabled city … more →
bluenred wrote 1 month ago: All that is created comes of water. —Mohammed NASA is bombing the moon. Last Friday the Houston doub … more →
bluenred wrote 1 month ago: Having been pronounced dead by Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik and various assorted Western … more →
bluenred wrote 1 month ago: Yesterday it was crisp all day. Never really warmed up. Mr. Sun, just not pumping it out the way he … more →
bluenred wrote 1 month ago: Not knowing the language, they did not know the people. They did not know what the people loved or r … more →
osopher wrote 2 months ago: Our next chapter is “The Meaning of Life” (illustrated by “The Death of Socrates, … more →
ishmeme wrote 2 months ago: A million tiny points of light commit their charge, then vanish into emptiness— the Void! Where fir … more →
bluenred wrote 3 months ago: The paper rustled under his swishing priest’s robes, and I told him we were crossing a field o … more →
stavr0s wrote 3 months ago: ”Being in the timeless moment without the coercion of time is to dream, while lacking any sen … more →
bluenred wrote 3 months ago: ABC News is reporting that Lithuania supplied the CIA with facilities for a secret prison in which e … more →
bluenred wrote 3 months ago: Vladimir Lenin was not fond of alcohol. He agreed with Friedrich Engels that intoxication followed f … more →
bluenred wrote 3 months ago: Builders of states, architects of revolution: these are usually idealists, who believe that what the … more →