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Time Rusted Compass: September 2016
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Friday, September 23, 2016. One of the morally revolting things about war (one of thousands) is that we define loss of life by how many people are killed on "our" side, while ignoring the reality that all of America's war in the last 100 years have resulted in far, far, far more "enemy" civilians being killed than American soldiers. So how utterly twisted is it that the only major American political figure to speak empathetically about these faceless dead, indeed to speak about them at all. Look, the war...
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Time Rusted Compass: Knowing When to Quit
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Thursday, December 29, 2016. Knowing When to Quit. For all red-blooded Americans of a certain age, there are heroes of cinema which bring us back to our childhood, back to Nintendo, back to VHS, back to acne, back to basketball all day. Among the characters who trigger instant and intoxicating nostalgia in my generation are Indiana Jones, John J. Rambo, John McClane, and Rocky Balboa. And props to Sylvester Stallone for creating and personifying two of these four amazing characters. And it was awful....
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Time Rusted Compass: To Invade or to Invite? (Part 1)
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016. To Invade or to Invite? The American relationship with the Muslim World is at once cynical and naive, simultaneously culpable and ignorant, defined from every angle as an inability or unwillingness to acknowledge obvious truths about the immorality of invading peoples' home and the absurdity of inviting them into ours. So, to invade, or to invite? Stupid, we find ourselves doing both. First things first: what is the cost of invading Muslim nations? Many Muslims were not impres...
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Time Rusted Compass: October 2016
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016. Ready To Die Music. My musical library is entirely dominated by two demographics that would seem mutually exclusive to the uneducated. I generally prefer music written and recorded by white men born very poor no later than 1955 or black men born very poor no earlier than 1965. One theme that my favorite musical artists explore regardless of their background is death, and specifically the concept of when one is Ready to Die. To call Biggie the best rapper of all time is a bit ...
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Time Rusted Compass: January 2017
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Thursday, January 19, 2017. Barack Obama's presidency ends tomorrow. Another way to measure the passage of time, among other things. I am 37 years old. Tomorrow I will be 7 presidents old. Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump. As Obama's presidency comes to an end, I am drawn back to the person I was when it began, and I am drawn towards the urge to assess his tenure as opposed to what I imagined it would have been. In other words, I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. Obama w...
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Time Rusted Compass: November 2016
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Saturday, November 26, 2016. History Will Absolve Me. The Reaper has been busy this year. Prince. David Bowie. Leonard Cohen. The Democratic Party. The Republican Party. The age-old belief that Presidents should not be pussy-grabbers. And now, Fidel Castro. The man who bedeviled 11 U.S. Presidents apparently could not escape old age as easily as he escaped CIA assassins. The question, of course, is what did he endure for. Because of Fidel's total devotion to his people (whether his people wanted. And whe...
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Time Rusted Compass: To Invade, Or To Invite (Part II)
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016. To Invade, Or To Invite (Part II). To invade, or to invite? If the reader has not read the first half of this post, you can do so below. The United States has committed grievous sins against the Muslim, specifically Arab, nations over the past two decades. The only reason we need to consider inviting. These people is because we've invaded. The other side of this amoral coin is inviting. Invading and inviting. We kill people who did not harm us, we destroy their socie...Musli...
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Time Rusted Compass: August 2016
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Tuesday, August 30, 2016. Why Do They Hate Us? So asked the cover of Newsweek in the weeks after 9/11. Most Americans avoided asking the question, since the very thought of addressing that issue smelled to some people like some sort masochistic attempt to rationalize the Manhattan massacre. But it's an important question, and adults should know the difference between an explanation and an excuse. But there is a secondary reason for their hatred. The general Islamic critique of Western freedom is that it ...
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Time Rusted Compass: History Will Absolve Me
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Saturday, November 26, 2016. History Will Absolve Me. The Reaper has been busy this year. Prince. David Bowie. Leonard Cohen. The Democratic Party. The Republican Party. The age-old belief that Presidents should not be pussy-grabbers. And now, Fidel Castro. The man who bedeviled 11 U.S. Presidents apparently could not escape old age as easily as he escaped CIA assassins. The question, of course, is what did he endure for. Because of Fidel's total devotion to his people (whether his people wanted. And whe...
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Time Rusted Compass: Goodnight, Sweet Prince
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Friday, November 11, 2016. Goodnight, Sweet Prince. Our culture lost a great voice today. For those of you who are distressed by the election of an authoritarian mouth-breather, or who are facing any other tribulation that seems to stand like an impenetrable wall in front of you, remember what Leonard said. There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in. That's how the light gets in.". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Eyes on the Prize.
