In a Dark Time … The Eye Begins to See

Does the kind of behavior described in the Guardian’s story“US military in torture scandal” mean that the United States of America will now be included in Bush’s infamous “Axis of Evil?” If not, why not? What started as merely a story of a few rogue military members takes on darker elements when you read: “It’s insanity,” [...]

Regular Army suggestions that “the reservists did it” seem about as convincing, and relevant to what has happened in Iraqi prisons as Prince Abdullah’s charge that “The Zionists caused it” when referring to recent el Queda attacks in Saudi Arabia. The New York Times article“Officer Suggests Iraq Jail Abuse Was Encouraged”, states that: The suggestion [...]

When I heard that Dawn hadn’t visited the Rhododendron Garden lately, I told her the flowers were at their peak and she needed to see them soon. So, today Dawn, Lael, and I visited the gardens. Though I doubt that this is the Garden of Eden that the Bible had in mind, there is [...]

Try as I might, I cannot totally ignore today’s politics even though this blog is supposed to be devoted to “exploring a philosophy of life, particularly as related to poetry and literature in general.” I’ve studiously ignored today’s National Day of Prayer. After all where’s the fun in satirizing an organization that would choose that [...]