“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
If you have ever loved a dog over a span of years, then you know two things with certainty. First, that bond is full of mystery – we read each other as if the intuition of both dog and person is sharpened with time. They respond to worlds of sensation we cannot penetrate. Watching them closely, we can catch glimpses of their cosmos which exists next to us and all […]
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“The cruelty is the point.” Adam Serwer (please read the story below) * These are the first 3 paragraphs of a story that ran on March 12: “A family that was deported to Mexico hopes they can find a way to return to the U.S. and ensure their 10-year-old daughter, who is a U.S. citizen, can continue her brain cancer treatment. Immigration authorities removed the girl and four of her American siblings […]
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The word wicked grows out of an early form of the root “weg”, meaning to be strong or lively but also to bend or twist. That word travels with “wicca” meaning wizard or witch, one who communes with evil spirits. Now an adverb, it might serve to positively modify an adjective as in “wicked good”, but for our purposes, one who serves the demonic is apt. For example, in a […]
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These are the best books I have read in the last two years. Out of everything I have read, these are the ones most worth your time. They cover that pair of interests I have had for over 60 years – fiction and history, but other matters have insinuated themselves these last 24 months – the nature and exercise of power, the manner by which evil takes hold of a […]
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