"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." --Jesus
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious" --George Orwell
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." --F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
"WASHINGTON — The U.S. military acknowledged Wednesday that it considered bombing a group of more than 100 Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan but decided not to after determining they were on the grounds of a cemetery. [ As long as we continue to suffer Gramscian damage, we will keep making decisions like this. In the mistaken assumption that the enemy and the sea he swims in will be swayed by our moral example. This is ethnocentrism of a magnitude that ends only in disaster. -ed. ] "