December 2010
elserracho:
A CLEAN HIT James Tate A bomb had exploded down the street. I got dressed and walked down to see what happened. The Whalen’s house had been flattened. But Hal and Rebecca were standing in the street, apparently unscathed. Everyone in the neighborhood was pouring our of their houses and into the streets. “What the hell happened?” I said to Hal. “We were in the garden, thank god,...
The DNA of American Exceptionalism
Power is the ability to define others while not being, yourself, defined in turn: Hitchens, for example, gets to tell you about what you need to do, while you don’t get to tell him shit. Being normal to your different gives him the epistemic position from which to intervene, since — and this is the point of it — whiteness is the ethnicity that is not an ethnicity, the ethnic perspective that...
“Is the “will of the people” really captured by 51% of the voters? Clearly, not...”
– Why I am a Monarchist | Front Porch Republic (via discordian-dilemma)
November 2010
UNMANNED WIKILEAKS DRONE DESTROYS AFGHAN VILLAGE →
“It was not that he was idle. He was always doing something in his amateurish...”
– D.H. Lawrence - England, My England (via discordian-dilemma)
be still, my good heart.