The health of leaders is at no time more important than when there’s a war on. Nations, ethnic communities and loosely affiliated gangs of rag-tag warriors depend upon the physical and psychological well-being of their chiefs for morale and direction. Several players in the War on Terror have been in the news lately for health [...]
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On the occasion of this past Monday, I decided since everyone else was doing it, I might as well hold my own little 911 observation. It occurred to me to paint a portrait of UbL, since I’ve been working on portraiture lately (by which I mean ‘making portraits’ rather than in the academic sense of [...]
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Over the weekend, we went to a rally marking the third anniversary of the war. We being myself, pdcs and our lynchpin, rajeev. It was a chilly night. The atmosphere was festive, even. There were the usual anarchists/socialists/communists/retired school teachers but also a lot of people with no banners, hands stuck in pockets, just walking. [...]
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Threadless will donate all of the money from the Regrowth shirt to Red Cross.
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[Editor's Note: Sepoy has escaped; however, he is completely nude and wandering the mean streets of Dayton, Ohio. I say this not to frighten, but to warn. He is crazed on absinthe (one of my favorite interrogation methods) and, as he crawled from my front porch, he was muttering somethings dark about "Said's thesis," The [...]
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I cannot speak as authoritatively about politics in America as farangi did about religion in America. My interest in politics here – and my experience of it – is barely 10 years old. Sure, I have read my share of 19th and 20th century American political history but that is just that. Still, I claimed [...]
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[sepoy notes: Gentle readers, here it is. The coup de gráce. I will have my thoughts on the series next week. Specifically, I want to see what a secular populist response to this would look like. After all, if the world doesn't end as predicted, we should have Plan B. In his conclusion, farangi also [...]
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[sepoy notes: Fundamentalism, a term now associated with Islam - though largely supplanted by Islamofascists among the freepers, originated in the 19th century America to describe those who maintained the inerrancy of the Bible. In 1895, the five points of fundamentalism were agreed upon in Niagra: Literal inerrancy of the Bible, the divinity of Jesus [...]
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[sepoy notes: On the inerrancy of text, see Holy Writ in the latest Economist (thanks, moacir). The piece focuses on Christian and Muslim traditions and has some excellent quotes and nice overview of the tension between textual literalists and textual critics. On the end times in Muslim eschatology, I briefly touched on this here and, [...]
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[sepoy notes: Gentle readers. I asked my good friend and, sometimes, collaborator farangi to write something explaining wtf is up with religion in America. Obviously, the elections were a motivation but there is something else going on. For example, just yesterday, Tom Delay - the embattled House Bully and born-again Christian - used scripture to [...]
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I want to say to you as I move to my conclusion, as we talk about “Where do we go from here?” that we must honestly face the fact that the movement must address itself to the question of restructuring the whole of American society. (Yes) There are forty million poor people here, and one [...]
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Presidential opinions about abortion, the place of religious expression in the public sphere, free expression, the right to bear arms, the rights of the accused, etc.,††are usually†interesting but essentially meaningless: the most important issues of our day are constitutional issues, not policy issues. Presidents can do little or nothing about them, because the controversies around [...]
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