[30 September 2007
[I am reposting the following now -- it first appeared in Bodwyn Wook 0n 19 March 2006 -- because of a recent comment which you may read at the end, together with my response -- MN]
al-Akirah
by MuHammad Nejmi
ON Your dying day and in that
everlasting minute breath out slowly, and
with an open mouth, your
last breath, and
this shall be so, [...]
Archive for September, 2007
al-Akirah All Over Again
Posted in Muslim and Beyond -- as-Safara lil'Abru on September 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Prime Time
Posted in To the Editor(s) on September 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
21 September 2007
Editor,
Squawbunion County Ram & Terre de Bleu City Daily Clyster,
1313 Septicaemia Street,
Mankato,
MN
56001
TO The Editor:
THE Delightful photograph of Mr O J Simpson smirking in your pages like an old but fit chimpanzee, in the style of Mr
Realistic Diplomatic Theory Makes Its Claims
Posted in by Bodwyn Wook on September 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
by Bodwyn Wook
PROTAGONISTS Of realistic diplomacy (although not neo-conservative overwrought romantics or state-liberalist idealists) will agree that US withdrawal from Iraq may not be necessarily any more of an immediate
A Bad Sign For Society
Posted in How We Live(d) Here (& There) on September 25, 2007 | 5 Comments »
by Bodwyn Wook, Retired Vice-Constable & CC, Interplanetary Filth-Abatement Desk
HIS Excellency, Unspiek, The Baron Bodissey has forwarded to us the following ‘link’. What is doleful about it is not as much the unwholesome content.
It is the regrettable fact that a broad mass of an unwashed and unregenerate populace — people positively meant by nature & ‘God’ [...]
Old Whine
Posted in How We Live(d) Here (& There) on September 24, 2007 | 6 Comments »
by Emmett R Smith
INTERESTINGLY, Mrs Bill Clinton last week in a nearly-flawless manner revealed a projected healthcare plan that bids fair to be
New Bottles?
Posted in History Made--and Read on September 23, 2007 | 6 Comments »
by Bodwyn Wook
THE Following ‘link’ is to an article by Michael Lind, in openDemocracy. In it he points out that both progressive internationalists and kissingeresque diplomacy-realists at present unite in criticising the overheated neo-conservative day-dream
A Letter To A Performer On The Zither
Posted in How We Live(d) Here (& There) on September 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
19 September 2007
DEAR Kaylie, hello to you & Tasso:
THERE Is too God-damned much to keep track of these days; and, so, I am writing now to you all to make a record of this musical item. You know I think that I do not now have the regard for the pipe-organ that I did as [...]
Law Without Government
Posted in History & History-Making on September 18, 2007 | 8 Comments »
by Emmett R Smith
TO All, here’s a ‘counter-intuitive’ reading on Somalia AND the idea that we ‘of course’ ‘need’ government (preferably an over-sized and expensive, professional one, with LOTS of