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Does it feel like civilization works? Is working? In the place where you live or where some other lives, maybe.  In pockets and palaces. Paris and Brussels mark positions in the ongoing global conversation about which peoples to eradicate. Pencil-pushers, dancers,  travelers going to and fro in the airport, those from the east they kill… Read more

Imagine the meeting beforehand, to prepare: You two go to the stadium and blow yourselves up.  We will slaughter people in restaurants. The rest of you go to the concert to kill, reload, and kill some more. Now, let’s set a start time for the carnage and then we can adjourn.  God is great. Like… Read more

Pads and pods and phones.  Now.  Must be doing something now.  And now.  Every beat measured .  Not a single note on the down stroke. Time cards?  And their inventing a world in which people punch their lives away, minute by minute? Did Huxley’s muse sang through thee? Read more

If the Muslim people and the Christian people cannot come together to stop what is happening here, what every person in the world can tell is about to happen here, then the Christian people and the Muslim people ought to get together in some act of collective “we are not great people” shame. such a… Read more

For awhile–well, five minutes really–I have been thinking about the way the East and the West are coming together in the worst possible ways.  For both East and West I have in mind astereotyped notions that might be represented by Budhist sand sculptures and museums of art, the one directed at a communal beuaty that… Read more

Why–in this “we should trust business as the model of all that we do” thinking–should we trust that Bain is altogether different than Bank of America and Goldman Sachs and Enron and GM and every other business that has either broken the law or screwed something up royally?  Is it racist or “unfairly grouping” or… Read more

At the car place, getting the oil changed or tires rotated, Carl is the “greets you at the service center” service guy.  He looks to run the whole shop, to stand tall among those who work under the hood, but mostly he offers you interface mode. No doubt–but for this act he is forced to… Read more