Monsters
That’s plural. I called Clarence Thomas a monster the other day for his recent death penalty opinion — in which he was to the right of even this right-wing court — but these two paragraphs from a recent post at Hullabaloo capture the essence of the problem. Digby is responding to an essay by Egil [...]
Two More Trees
Repotting
Two bonsai pots I’d ordered from Bonsai by the Monastery came yesterday. Two of my favorite trees needed repotting — a juniper created out of nursery stock a couple of years ago & a rosemary I bought as a little herb planting about five years ago. The rosemary is the bonsai I’ve had the longest [...]
Monster
I would just like to state publicly & for the record that Justice Clarence Thomas is a monster. Those who joined in this opinion are, I guess, sub-monsters of a sub-human consciousness. A reminder, if any were needed, of the moral bankruptcy of American Conservatism, so-called. And the logic of the death penalty, which requires [...]
Terriers
Terriers are merciless. We have three Jack Russells, one now going on thirteen years old, & the two younger dogs, after they have wolfed their dinners, try to push her off her bowl. When the succeed, the spill the bowl & then there is a snarling free-for-all. Almost never any blood, just grade-schoolers fighting by [...]
Summer Blogging Hours: Flickers & Robins
We have a pair of flickers & a pair of robins nesting in our woods. I’ve been spending a lot of time watching them fly around. And pulling weeds. (I’ve been pulling weeds, not the birds.) And conducting my online course, Understanding Vietnam, which takes time & concentration I usually spend pecking out my observations [...]
Palestine
When I first began blogging six years ago, I wrote a lot about the Palestinians & the Israeli occupation. I got into a lot of blog fights & realized that this was a case in which rational argument was just not going to make any headway against fear & bigotry. I’ll stipulate that Fatah was [...]
Note
There is a thunderstorm approaching from the southwest — common this time of year — & just now as I was taking the dogs down to the end of the road for a quick “out” before bed & before the storm, I noticed that there were a whole lot of fireflies about. The kind that [...]
On Abandoning Novels
As a reader, I mean. I haven’t every attempted to write one, a poem of three or four pages being about as long as I have been able to extend a literary structure. But after years of not reading novels very often, I have been on something of a roll lately. I had looked forward [...]
There Is No Truth about Vietnam
Only stories. Some stories are better than others, I’d argue. But on what grounds do you judge the stories? The historical events & ideological fixations that led to the American War in Vietnam are available in thousands of books & hundreds of hours of film & video tape, but the best we can do is [...]
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