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#AttheTime: Called to Compassion

  • Rehearsing for Death: Washington Post
  • How We All Miss the Point on School Shootings: Mark Manson
  • On the Ecology of Gun Violence in America: Scientific American

#AttheTime: Obama's Tax Cut Position

  • APR Story: Potential Impact of Tax Cut Extension
  • Senator Sanders Speaks About Economic Justice
  • NPR Story: Representative McDermott's Opposition to Obama Tax Cut Deal
  • Tax Rates Comparison Chart
  • Huffington Post: Simon Rosenberg Supports Obama's Tax Deal
  • NPR Story: Americans Want Deficit Cut, Oppose Fixes

The Zeitouns and the End of the War

The Zeitouns and the End of the War
Proceeds of the book go to the Zeitoun Foundation

The Zeitouns and the End of the War

The Zeitouns and the End of the War
A Meditation on Torture from NPR

The Zeitouns and the End of the War

The Zeitouns and the End of the War
"...torture is one of the things that a democratic republic must not do in order to retain its character. " - Gregory Fried

The Zeitouns and the End of the War

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)

One Tin Soldier

Listen, children, to a story
That was written long ago,
'Bout a kingdom on a mountain
And the valley-folk below.

On the mountain was a treasure
Buried deep beneath the stone,
And the valley-people swore
They'd have it for their very own.

Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
Go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of Heaven,
You can justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day,
On the bloody morning after....
One tin soldier rides away.

So the people of the valley
Sent a message up the hill,
Asking for the buried treasure,
Tons of gold for which they'd kill.

Came an answer from the kingdom,
"With our brothers we will share
All the secrets of our mountain,
All the riches buried there."

Now the valley cried with anger,
"Mount your horses! Draw your sword!"
And they killed the mountain-people,
So they won their just reward.

Now they stood beside the treasure,
On the mountain, dark and red.
Turned the stone and looked beneath it...
"Peace on Earth" was all it said.

Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
Go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of Heaven,
You can justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day,
On the bloody morning after....
One tin soldier rides away.

Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.


O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

To Bed Without Dinner, To Sleep With a Song

To Bed Without Dinner, To Sleep With a Song
Sirens

Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby

go to sleep little babe
go to sleep little babe

your momma's gone away and your daddy's gonna stay
didn't leave nobody but the baby

go to sleep little babe
go to sleep little babe

everybody's gone in the cotton and the corn
didn't leave nobody but the baby

you're a sweet little babe
you're a sweet little babe

honey in the rock and the sugar don't stop
gonna bring a bottle to the baby

don't you weep pretty babe
don't you weep pretty babe

she's long gone with her red shoes on
gonna need another loving babe

go to sleep little babe
go to sleep little babe

you and me and the devil makes three
don't need no other lovin' babe

go to sleep little babe
go to sleep little babe

come lay bones on the alabaster stones
and be my everlovin baby

To Bed Without Dinner, To Sleep With a Song

To Bed Without Dinner, To Sleep With a Song
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

The Fourth of July

The Fourth of July
Check Out This Video

Why I Live Here

Why I Live Here
Oregon Grape 2009

Why I Live Here

Why I Live Here
Kalaloch 2009

Really?!?!?!??!?!

Really?!?!?!??!?!
The Supreme Court Building

Really?!?!?!??!?!

Really?!?!?!??!?!
What's Clarence Looking At??

What We're Up Against

What We're Up Against
Oil Near Grand Isle, Louisiana

What We're Up Against

What We're Up Against
Dauphin Island, Alabama

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Honor, Duty, and Love

Honor, Duty, and Love
Garden, Spring/Summer 2009

The Myth of the Filibuster Proof Majority

The Myth of the Filibuster Proof Majority
This Picture Links to a 10 Minute Daily Show Clip

The Fava Fiasco

The Fava Fiasco
The Beds In Preparation: August

The Fava Fiasco

The Fava Fiasco
What I Imagined

Letter to President Obama: Clean Energy

Letter to President Obama: Clean Energy
From Political Buzz Website

Letter to President Obama: Clean Energy

Letter to President Obama: Clean Energy
Richard Muller's Book & Website

Letter to President Obama: Clean Energy

Letter to President Obama: Clean Energy
Schematic of a Pebble Bed Reactor

Letter to President Obama: Clean Energy

Letter to President Obama: Clean Energy
Fuel Pebble for a PBMR

Yup

Yup
Nothing to Offer

War: Suffer The Little Children

War: Suffer The Little Children
Taking Our Dead Home to Rest

War: Suffer The Little Children

War: Suffer The Little Children
From John Michael Boling's Website

Our Alaskan Ideal, Being Defiled

Our Alaskan Ideal, Being Defiled
Image from Kensington Gold Mine's Website

Urban Vegetable Gardening

Urban Vegetable Gardening
Yellow monky flower with Love-in-a-mist

The Zen of Gardening & Why I Love It

The Zen of Gardening & Why I Love It
Stuart McLean on Stage at the Vinyl Cafe

Pure Hogwash

Pure Hogwash
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., courtesy of Wikipedia

This American Life

This American Life
The Giant Pool of Money

The Politics of Bad Ideas

The Politics of Bad Ideas
This article in Huffpo is by the authors.

Free Lunch

Free Lunch
Referenced pp. 278-79 & 289

Watercolor

Watercolor
A Fawn in the Grass

Whiteness

Whiteness
Stuff White People Like

Frustration & Gratitude

Frustration & Gratitude
In the Off Position

Subconsciousness

Subconsciousness
Willow "Napping" with Daddy

111th Congress Swearing In

111th Congress Swearing In
A Deal?

President & First Lady Obama

President & First Lady Obama
Click on this photo to hear more on Obama's inauguration from citizens, at This American Life

Jon Stewart & Mike Huckabee on gay marriage

Jon Stewart & Mike Huckabee on gay marriage
Jon has some moving things to say about denying marriage to same sex couples

First Garden

First Garden

Iris

Iris

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