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All Kinds of Feelings, All Kinds of Thoughts
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With my periscope I am seeing Cheney who Hobbes might have defined as “short, nasty and brutish,” Darth Vadering the TV shows, exhaling toxicity like some primal creature. We actually have a “debate” in this country, if you call it that, about what is torture, the equivalent of describing a chicken as if we don’t know […]
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Everything Bagels, Dasani Water, and The New York Times
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Here is the plan. I live 5 to 7 miles away from the Strip. I get into my Honda with Jane and for lunch we go to the Vegas branch of the Stage delicatessen for pastrami on rye, Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray, sour pickles and tomatoes, a round potato knish — we split that; deli french […]
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In Between, Above and Beyond, Below and Beneath
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In between packing and labeling cartons “Office” and ” Books,” the air conditioning system broke down and I need a new compressor; the “For Sale” sign has been removed as I am renting the house for at least five years to an elderly couple who are in love with the house; I am writing a […]
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What Is It to Be Inwardly Free?
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I don’t know. I can say that for at least 34 years I have struggled with that. Dr. Neil Friedman started my search when he assigned Krishnamurti’s The Flight of the Eagle in his social work class. I recall how I found that book so dense with meaning, so conceptual that I felt for a […]