Dissertation Conjuration; or, What It Is

Original poem… The twinned abyss eyeballs me back / The one side swarms, the other lacks

Filed under: Academia, Creative, Personal

It Happened Again!

I imagine it’s a little confusing since they are torn between apocalypic thinking and wanting to defend first amendment rights and other American values that make their work easier. I took a few Watchtowers and Awakes off her hands, and everybody was happy.

Filed under: Jehovah's Witnesses, Personal, Religion

Keep up with JWs in the News

Denmark stories of abuse, which include a woman having a baby by her own father, and various other atrocities of abuse happening with the collusion of local elders. In Denmark, they are starting to be called “Satan’s Witnesses.”

Filed under: Jehovah's Witnesses, Religion

Block Haynes’ Nomination To Lifetime Position

Bush is still backing William Haynes for a lifetime position on the powerful 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. You don’t like activist judges? Check out the history of Bush’s nominations.

Filed under: Cultural, Human Rights, Political

Rumsfeld’s Solution

From the point of view of this administration, the problem isn’t so much the torture, it’s the pictures of the torture. Rumsfeld has ordered all digital cameras, camcorders, and cellphones with cameras to be prohibited from US Army installations in Iraq.

Filed under: Human Rights, Political, Religion

419 Nigerian Email Scam

The people who respond to these propositions are easy marks for these con games. What I like about the Salon article is that the focus is on the language. Douglas Cruickshank writes that he has fallen for these emails, “not for the scam part, but for the writing, the plots (fragmented as they are), the characters…

Filed under: Fun With Blogs, Humor, Odd or Interesting, , , , ,

Our Vision of Hope?

From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.

Filed under: Human Rights, Political, Religion
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