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Tuesday, Oct 16, 2001

realistic appraiser

"So if you want to do something useful with your $10 million, then endow an anti-corruption campaign in Saudi Arabia, or endow American Studies departments in all Saudi universities, or endow a center of Islamic learning in Saudi Arabia that would focus on the teachings of reformist Islamic scholars. Or give the money to Seeds of Peace, which brings Arab and Israeli youth together, or invest in development inside Saudi Arabia or Palestine, so young Saudis and Palestinians can find fulfilling jobs. Or persuade King Fahd to say publicly that if Israel withdraws to the 1967 borders, Saudi Arabia would lead the Muslim world into diplomatic relations with Israel."

fish head

"Postmodernism maintains only that there can be no independent standard for determining which of many rival interpretations of an event is the true one. The only thing postmodern thought argues against is the hope of justifying our response to the attacks in universal terms that would be persuasive to everyone, including our enemies. Invoking the abstract notions of justice and truth to support our cause wouldn't be effective anyway because our adversaries lay claim to the same language. (No one declares himself to be an apostle of injustice.)"

Friday, Oct 05, 2001

give us this day

ignore rants

Thursday, Oct 04, 2001

edited out of good sense

the pen is a crook
a steel-eyed rook

a shark with a bark
to be written, not bitten

biding the time
fouling each line

youve got to pick
a pocket or two

whats eating you

the noisome boys
with gurls unfurled

in swirling links
with fetid drinks

arm in arm

feigned in interest
the lore of the albacore

have you no appetite
for contrite?

Tuesday, Oct 02, 2001

patina

thats a familiar slight
build

left flanked
for me?

there was a near collision
doubled backwards

if i had only remembered the violet
but everything was yellow

right malcolm?

Monday, Oct 01, 2001

iron lion zion

all aboard

aftershucks

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