i’ve been thinking about this quote from the hebrew bible (aka the old testament): “the spirit of man is the candle of the lord” (proverbs 20:27).
i like this imagery. i picture a small, fragile, but brightly burning flame within my heart. i think about my family, my friends, my coworkers, the people i bump into […]

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reading the american press (primarily cnn) one might get the impression that only americans and british are dying in iraq. my quest for a balanced view of casualties led me to gather information from a variety of news outlets, and one of these sources was the arab language satellite new station al-jazeera.
al jazeera is one […]

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i am sitting at my desk, casually taking bites of a salad as i read various accounts of iraqi women fleeing into the desert, saddam hussein’s baath party members taking up kalishnokovs and sandbagged positions in the streets of baghdad, american soldiers on edge, waiting near the iraqi-kuwait border.
war is about to begin. in the […]

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one of defense contractor raytheon’s slogans:
“we own the kill chain.”
they also claim that “only raytheon spans the entire kill chain.”
i’d be willing to bet that more of your hard-earned dollars have been spent on raytheon products (courtesy of uncle sam) than on girl scout cookies::

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here is a note written on the whiteboard in my office:
Daer Dad,
I like coming to your office. I haveint seen it in a long time. You are the best [the s is backwards on the board] guy in the world that I know!!! I love you and I know that you […]

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