Archive for March, 2008

For Good Friday: Love’s as Warm as Tears by C. S. Lewis

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Love’s as warm as tears,
Love is tears:
Pressure within the brain,
Tension at the throat,
Deluge, weeks of rain,
Haystacks afloat,
Featureless seas between
Hedges, where once was green
Love’s as fierce as fire,
Love is fire:
All sorts–Infernal heat
Clinkered with greed and pride,
Lyric desire, sharp-sweet,
Laughing, even when denied,
And that empyreal flame
Whence all loves came.
Love’s as fresh as spring,
Love is spring:
Bird-song in the air,
Cool [...]

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A More Perfect Union

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU

Obama on race in the campaign and racial relations in America. Perhaps the most important political speech on race in America since MLK’s “I Have a Dream.”

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I’m White, So I Like Stuff White People Like

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

By now you must know about the latest blog to go from 1 to 75 jagillion readers in just two months: Stuff White People Like. If you don’t know about it, you must not be white, because if you are white you spend 57% of your time each day making sure you are keeping up [...]

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