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the best disinfectant

if you seek healing radical transparency is the only path

a farewell for kent butler

i am sad that we miss the opportunity of being colleagues

$church$

'you cannot serve both God and money' said Jesus so we choose money?

monkey business

the obligations of our primate behavior chain better angels

wage slavery

i'm feeling friday after a week when my time belongs not to me

On Wiesenfeld on Palestinians (see Kuchner-CUNY)

There is nothing but moral equivalency twixt Jew and Muslim.

embedded

I am part of a larger organism which is far beyond my ken.

why haiku?

Haiku not for you. Verse is way to retrain me, in economy.

To my mom

"Happy Mothers Day" Reason cannot stop my hope That the dead can hear

displacement

argue the pictures argue the sea burial ignore the killing

American Leadership?

Killing, like torture, Surrenders moral high ground. Is that leadership?

the aftermath of assassination

Joy on the TV Obama, Stewart, Colbert I feel so alone

War on terror done?

War on terror done? Not unless we have courage, And stop the practice.

the death of osama bin laden

we teach friends evil wring hands when they turn on us cheer when they are dead

when has war achieved its aim?

In what historical cases has a war purported as a 'just war' achieved its stated purpose without producing horrific, long-term unintended consequences? If you have examples, please include your take on what made the war just, what its purpose/goals were, and how any unintended consequences did or did not effect the realization of the goals. thanks for playing along, eric