Tag Archives: violence

Stop the Palinsanity.

“All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.” ~Marshall Rosenberg {Read this on Elephant Journal.} Wouldn’t our lives be easier if Sarah Palin was single-handedly responsible for the atrocities in Arizona yesterday? She was not. Obviously. [...]

land of eternal contradiction

“If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for human freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. That’s your choice.” ~Noam Chomsky ζ Before moving here, I was totally [...]

divided we fall

“Hate no one; hate their vice, not themselves.” ~JGC Brainard September 11, 2001, I woke up to my clock radio at 8:08 a.m. Half asleep, I heard something about a plane crashing into a building. I mindlessly turned the radio off. I rolled over and fell back into the dream state. As I slept, people were [...]