With the mid-term elections nearly upon us, perhaps it's time to revisit Eminem & Ian Inaba's powerful music video:
http://www.gnn.tv/videos/27/Eminem_s_Mosh
If you've read Tolstoy's War and Peace, you know that we're all individually responsible for leaving in power the people who believe they can "interpret" the Geneva conventions and distinguish between "coercive interrogation" and "torture".
Here in England, the people are finally fed up enough with Tony Blair for supporting Bush's "war on terror" (which is conveniently only classified as a "war" when Bush wants it to be classified as such) that they're demanding he step down, and soon. When will we Americans do the same?
Does anyone know whether I am allowed to vote (and if so, where) while I'm living in England?
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Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way.
straying planets,
These poems, people,
lost ponies with
Dragging saddles –
and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an endless
four-dimensional
Game of Go.
ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.
--Gary Snyder
Before your mind like rocks.
placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way.
straying planets,
These poems, people,
lost ponies with
Dragging saddles –
and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an endless
four-dimensional
Game of Go.
ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.
--Gary Snyder
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