Beyond Greed Human need, not corporate greed ... without justice, there can be no peace. That's the meme stringing these items together. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374605 2006-07-13T09:53:19Z Blogger
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 false Ben 2006-07-12T11:39:00-06:00 2006-07-13T09:53:19Z 2006-07-12T17:47:39Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374605.post-115272645999009000 Sabres, so often rattled, too often leave their marks. *update at bottom*Israel has rolled into Lebanon. Six years after it "unilaterally" withdrew its forces, Israel has launched raids into southern Lebanon.see "Israel has rolled into Lebanon. Here we go again?" - HfxBen"How many realize that Hezbollah owes its existence to Israel's unilateral withdrawal from the area six years ago? Now they kidnap Israeli soldiers with a cross-border attack?! It can false Ben 2006-06-26T12:08:00-06:00 2006-06-26T18:09:11Z 2006-06-26T18:09:11Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374605.post-115134535127411383 It's always ''hard to say''. In his "Say what?" Jon Udell responds to a comment about his writing style. (He self-deprecatingly called it a "dope slap" ... Jon's the sorta fellow who knows the benefits arise from proper user of a clue stick or clue by 4.) BTW "Say what?" is an allusion to Ami Hendrickson's blog, ''Muse Ink''. Later in the piece Jon describes a system users Eureka moment ... "we bought the wrong kind of false Ben 2006-06-24T15:17:58-06:00 2006-06-24T21:18:01Z 2006-06-24T21:17:58Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374605.post-115118387855538547 Affect and Quality of Consciousness hfx_ben: If folk act as stunned as I say they do .... This post to LiveJournal, citing "'Thirst for knowledge' may be opium craving", reads in part:Maybe I get upset. Maybe too upset, and maybe too often. And maybe angry, and then depressed. But at least I'm thinking. So what? *D'uh!* is the appropriate answer to that pseuco-clever trash. [...] But hey, go ahead ... coast ... the planet will die false Ben 2006-06-19T21:51:00-06:00 2006-06-20T03:58:54Z 2006-06-20T03:51:02Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374605.post-115077546291577411 In the first post to the blog for the new "Democratic Strategist", Scott Winship (the Managing Editor) included this invitation: "you (dear reader) can help make this a better blog by passing along links to articles or studies that I can deconstruct. I know that sounds like I'm pushing my work off on you, but hey"My reply was this: Passing along links and articles you can deconstruct? Ok! FWIW false Ben 2003-12-31T09:07:04-07:00 2004-04-11T18:39:15Z 2003-12-31T16:08:36Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374605.post-107288682497348173 A rough draft of my core idea (see also material on "dispositional" and "punitive"): Solipsistic, individuals seek out the company of those who a) they can dominate, or b) who do not threaten the integrity of their own denials (ideally, who actually corroborate them, conspiratorially, which provides entertainment, validation, and other forms of social utility). Those who maintain their false Ben 2003-09-11T11:24:10-06:00 2003-09-11T17:24:10Z 2003-09-11T17:24:10Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374605.post-106330105092794811 Two years ago, in NYC, hundreds of "just folk" died while going about their daily lives. Thirty years ago, in Chile, a nation's democratically elected government was overthrown in a coup that shocked even the aristocrats and oligarchs who had pressed for it. 3000 of those who were executed or killed by torture had their bodies hidden away so that their families could not reclaim them and false Ben 2003-08-26T18:36:51-06:00 2003-08-27T00:36:51Z 2003-08-27T00:36:51Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374605.post-106194461110290813 Why is 30 years more potent than 25? A couple of weeks ago I had a profound insight into my PTSD, but didn't get it quite right: it turns out that I taint moments of success /not/ because I have come to believe myself unworthy, but rather (and, friends, incredible as it might seem, this next detail explains away my writer's block!), because that "success" was actually negative ... retrograde ... false