eatbees
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- : Born to a daughter of immigrants and a failed priest, I am the author of thousands of pages of unpublished treasures, some of which are collected at Radiant Days. I have been a pizza delivery driver, political activist, radio news reporter, student of philosophy, executive secretary, photographer, vagabond in Paris, Visual Basic programmer and web designer. I have lived in Ohio, New Mexico, San Francisco, New York, Paris and Morocco. I have visited 49 states and 14 countries. I dislike hospitals and airports, television and air conditioning. I prefer marginal neighborhoods and poor countries. I feel that Americans are living in a bubble of self satisfaction, which even the tragedies of terrorism and war have failed to puncture. I want to live in a global democracy, a world without borders, where money serves people and not the other way around. I am a Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and Jew. I recently completed a draft of my first novel, Vanishing Point.
The Cruelty Principle
The same Moroccan friend who told me, the first time we met, that "Morocco is a cruel country" later explained what he called the "Arab mentality" in which rulers are abusive toward their people not because they deserve it, but...more »
Posted on February 17, 2008 9:54 PM
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The Israeli government may be elected, but not by American voters, so why does our own elected government have an obligation to fulfill all its requests?
There is no mutual defense treaty between the U.S. and Israel.
Posted at May 16, 2008 3:51 AM in response to Iran: What's the Game?
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Only they still won't manage to cling to power, they'll just leave more of a mess.
Posted at May 16, 2008 3:43 AM in response to Iran: What's the Game?
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There is something called negotiated, phased, verifiable disarmament.
Posted at May 16, 2008 3:42 AM in response to Iran: What's the Game?
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...a good part of what goes on on liberal blogs is and always has been trying to hold the MSM to a journalistic standard that it has totally failed to uphold for years.
I used to like this myself, and that's one of the main reasons I like to read liberal blogs. However, in this election cycle it's begun to feel like the snake that eats itself. The echo chamber magnifies the importance of every little nuance of every third-rate blog post commenting on the MSN's interpretation of some politician's gaffe or spin.... to the point that no one, including TPM, is discussing the underlying reality (the economy, foreign policy, abuse of executive power) except insofar as it serves some rhetorical "gotcha" for one's imagined opponents.
And no, I don't like it very much, because it's self-indulgent. Americans are narcissists who think we need to be at the center of every conversation. I admit that I'm doing it myself here, so I'll shut up now ;)
Posted at April 27, 2008 5:56 PM in response to BREAKING: Greg Sargent Gets His Feelings Hurt
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Enough obsessing about Greg. TPM is getting painful to read. It's true that he sometimes adds a sentence or two of gratuitious "analysis," but the rest of you, with your endless navel-gazing about it, and trolling of each other, are far worse. People need to remind themselves that there is life beyond TPM. Not only is there the real world of politics, in which all of us are but fleas on the donkey's hindquarters, there are also three millennia of literature in numerous languages, living and dead, speaking to all possible shades of human ambition and tragedy. Beyond the realm of letters, there is music, architecture and art, film and theater, biology, astronomy and all the rest. So please, people, consider Greg's outpourings to be but a tiny, irrelevant stop on your daily rounds. A sense of perspective is all I ask.
Posted at April 27, 2008 4:31 PM in response to BREAKING: Greg Sargent Gets His Feelings Hurt
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I love Clinton's idea to do this kind of debate, and was wondering myself why debates are always moderated by fatuous pundits instead of having a direct head-to-head between the candidates. My only question would be, why wait until this late in the game to bring this up? It would have been nice if we could have seen this type of debate as early as the run-up to Super Tuesday.
Posted at April 27, 2008 4:11 PM in response to Hillary Challenging Obama To Free-Form Debates
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He should have answered simply, "No. An attack on Israel is not an attack on the United States. We do not have a mutual defense treaty with Israel. And Israel is fully able to defend herself against regional attacks."
Posted at April 26, 2008 7:15 AM in response to Don't They Know There's a World Out There?
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The average voter isn't going to stop being uniformed if the candidates don't make the effort to educate them!
Posted at April 26, 2008 7:09 AM in response to Don't They Know There's a World Out There?
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Why?
Posted at April 26, 2008 7:08 AM in response to Don't They Know There's a World Out There?
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Where was a stone thrown !?
Posted at April 24, 2008 2:32 PM in response to Wright Gives First Interview to Bill Moyers
