There’s always that pesky feeling of loneliness that stems, no doubt, from the persistence of an inability to relate. The Beatles are getting less play these days, and The Smiths are on the cusp of its resurgence as my popular authority: this is how I know I’m coming up on a personal shift (juvenile, I [...]
Read more →Protestors flood Tehran streets By Borzou Daragahi and Ramin Mostaghim, Associated Press Tens of thousands of protesters swarmed the streets of Tehran and at least two other Iranian cities Friday, audaciously turning an annual rally in support of the Palestinian cause into the first major demonstration against the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in six [...]
Read more →It’s seeming more and more to me that Plato was Socrates with bitterness in his heart. All of his earlier work more likely attributable to the historical Socrates seems more forgiving, as though the teacher were aware of some kind of broader truth that put him at peace with the quarrels and flaws of his [...]
Read more →Keen to Learn, and Let Down in South Africa Celia W. Dugger, New York Times I am so incredibly disgusted by the perpetuation of that one relevant sin of a sentient species — what I call “uneducation.” Hendrik Verwoerd, architect of South African apartheid, would surely be proud to see the vestiges of his Bantu [...]
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