tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post2266972465066511208..comments2024-03-15T07:38:08.505-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: Excavations Under the Carpet Turn Up NothingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-88183541445981811422013-07-03T12:20:15.226-04:002013-07-03T12:20:15.226-04:00No matter how shitty the WaPo gets, it can still g...No matter how shitty the WaPo gets, it can still get even shittier.<br /><br />- Hiatt's Law<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-83285702634496753182013-07-03T09:36:49.846-04:002013-07-03T09:36:49.846-04:000)i'm not going to sign up for twitter, any mo...0)i'm not going to sign up for twitter, any more than i did facebook - too much info flow already<br /><br />1)i did follow a link of yours on szymborska and reduced a bit of my absolute ignorance of her - i see she's an ex-commie, like doris lessing (whose novels are good, although of course a novel takes a lot more time to read than a poem)<br /><br />2) i quoted a political poem (by a dead white male - it was written to oppose war with mexico) in an email to a living female professor of color - MSNBC's (there's tom clark's 'network') melissa perry-harris, who was well called out re snowden by gary leupp<br /><br />http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/02/brain-death-on-msnbc/<br /><br />the poem i quoted to her is one i have sung as a hymn in a unitarian-universalist context (the tune it is set to is quite stirring, also):<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Once to every man and nation</b>, comes the moment to decide,<br />In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side;<br />Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight,<br />And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.<br /><br />Then to side with truth is noble, when we share her wretched crust,<br />Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and ’tis prosperous to be just;<br />Then it is the brave man chooses while the coward stands aside,<br />Till the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.<br /><br />By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, Thy bleeding feet we track,<br />Toiling up new Calv’ries ever with the cross that turns not back;<br />New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth,<br />They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.<br /><br />Though the cause of evil prosper, yet the truth alone is strong;<br />Though her portion be the scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong;<br />Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown,<br />Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own.<br /><br /><br /><i>James R. Lowell, 1845</i><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com