Helen Thomas, again

Helen Thomas, my heroine, has again published an important article: Obama, The War President (Published on Monday, February 8, 2010 by The Albany Times-Union, New York). View this link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/08-10

How much of love

I found an old file full of things I wrote years ago, back in the days when one used a typewriter and paper. Here is one of them:



How much of love
Can be grown in a field
Of sun-warmed, red tomatoes?
Living, liquid life
Transformed
Into abstractions, rational relations,
Love of men,
Mankind,
Mathematics,
A washed dinner plate.

External things which are only
Phenomenologically true, perhaps, but nonetheless are
Hardly the crystallized works of a dead
Artist’s thought. Or the insubstantial
Hallucination
Of an amazed psychotic.

And then, too, remember that
Undefined warmth that puts sway in the hips,
As real as a tomato patch
And as insistent as the need to sing,
Ripened red by the same sunshine.

In the beginning was hardly the word.
In the beginning
(as always is)
Was the multitude of precious things.

Curious George

I found this very curious video of Werner Herzog reading his own existential/ pessimistic version of "Curious George". Enjoy.

Source: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/

The price of ignorance

This video was taken from this address;

The problem is that it is almost indistinguishable from real news. On CNN and FOX one sees crying women demanding the return of "their country", a place that is never defined but seems to refer to where social exclusion continues to be practiced.

This is the price for not having educated a large part of the population.



Referencias:

Video: http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/09/08
Letras ornatas: http://retrokat.com/medieval/leil.htm

Goodbye, Teddy Kennedy

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Perhaps the best of all three Kennedy brothers has left us. I can only say how sorry I am. This marks the almost-end of the great democrats, the last of those who thought that personal and collective liberty could coexist. How very sorry I am!!




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This cartoon by Zanetti, was published in the New York Times (on line). It had a different message: it decried the occult danger represented by the banking system. I modified it, first in PowerPoint to change the words, and then in Adobe Photoshop to fix some design problems. Now it denounces the dangers of Fascism that seem to be appearing again, the old phantom that once ran through Europe, but now seems more universal and more deadly.

Helen Thomas

Helen Thomas is one of Washington's most ethical and esteemed reporters. She is a Hearst White House columnist and currently writes for the Boston Channel, WCVB TV.