THE WULFSHEAD

20130522

Brave New American Century

Is this guy for real?

LOL

Zat you Cass Sunstein?

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20130519

20130518

1,000,000 years

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Or so they say.

And 500 more.

But who is counting?
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Is there progress? According to "Arthur Koestler, for whom the human brain consisted of a little shop counter, ethical and rational (still very small), and a huge cerebral backroom, bestial, animal, territorial, charged with fears, irrationalities and murderous instincts. Millions of years would be needed, he said, for moral evolution to clear this brutal backroom."

http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/05/05/inenglish/1367755108_874316.html?rel=rosEP

The Enlightenment took humanity a giant step forward. But it's over eager optimism seems sad today. Both its glory and its naive failure. The nineteenth century was relatively peaceful in the west. But then the twentieth came, with its world wars. And the twenty-first started with Bush's absurd wars....... Let's hope it's not a "million years."
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20130514

This Just In

Via The Borowitz Report in The New Yorker, via bloopie2 in The Guardian.

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20130508

The Great Prevaricator

Compare this:

Obama Explains Opposition to Palestinian Statehood Bid

To that:

The Only Occupied European Country to Save Its Jews from the Nazis Recognizes Palestine

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20130417

Philistines

Philistines, grocerymen,
All the while you would caress
Your wives

Dreaming of the little ones
That your vulgar appetites
Engender.

You would think: they will be
Clean shaven, stoutly built
Lawyers.

But getting your just deserts,
One day you do see arrive
On earth.

Children you did not want
Who grow up to become hairy
Poets.

You did think: they will be
Clean shaven, stoutly built
Lawyers.

But getting your just deserts,
One day you do see arrive
On earth.

Children you did not want,
Who grow up to become most hairy
Poets.

—Jean Richepin (Chanson des Cloches de Baptême, 1876)
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