Pselaphao

There is a difference between seeing the world as basically a territory where systems compete, where groups with different allegiances live at each other’s expense, where rivalry is inescapable, and seeing the world as a territory where being in a particular place makes it possible for you to see, to say and to do […]

There was an amazing documentary piece on NPR done by a guy who had been given a lobotomy (for very dubious reasons) when he was a kid. You need to check it out! I almost cried toward the end. Horrible.
‘My Lobotomy’: Howard Dully’s Journey
Direct link to the audio documentary (MP3 format)

Con la mano recojo este vacío,
imponderable noche, familias estrelladas,
un coro más callado que el silencio,
un sonido de luna, algo secreto, un triángulo,
un trapecio de tiza.
Es la noche oceánica, la soledad tercera,
una vacilación abriendo puertas, alas,
la población profunda que no tiene presencia
palpita desbordando los nombres del estuario.
Noche, nombre del mar, patria, racimo, rosa!
—Pablo Neruda

Some very disturbing news for Christians today. Four coordinated car-bomb attacks have taken place against Christian churches in Baghdad. The latest number of casualties I’ve seen is around a dozen, with a lot more wounded. I’m guessing there are probably more casualties, though.
Apparently, the Iraqi Christians have been growing increasingly concerned with the rise of […]

Finally, Aung San Suu Kyi will be released from house arrest, according to Burma’s foreign minister, who is visiting Bangkok at the moment. Apparently, the Burmese government will be holding a “constitutional conference” on May 17th, whatever that means. The foreign minister says she’ll be released before then.
Radio Australia — Burma says Suu Kyi to […]

As most Americans have probably heard by now, Southern California seems to be virtually engulfed in flames. If one is fortunate enough to live in an area not directly endangered by the seeming firestorm, one is constantly reminded of it by the billows of brown smoke hovering over one’s head, rendering the sun and its […]

No, not in some heathen region of the world, right in the elevator of a hospital. In one of the freakiest of freak accidents I have ever heard of, a doctor who had been planning on bringing his skills into the mission field was decapitated by an elevator! I have never heard of anything like […]

Some interesting news that happened to catch my eye today…
This first item is pretty embarassing. After handily kicking many Iraqi asses in the second Gulf War, Americans got STOMPED by Iraqis in a soccer match, 11-0. Of course, most Americans (and probably most of the people who read this blog) could care less. Why? Because […]

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