April 2011
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Ten years ago, this happened
April 2001
People think they know about emptiness. Mention emptiness and they’ll think of a dark room with no furniture, or a desert that stretches to the horizon in every direction. Say the word emptiness, and people think of outer space. They’re all wrong. Emptiness is driving through Western Wyoming at fifty-five miles per hour with the only evidence of human habitation the highway...
The Right-Winger's Fantasy: John McCain's...
IN THE BEGINNING, America was in darkness. But John McCain said “Let there be light,” and lo, there was light.
On the first day, John McCain declared war on Iran. And behold, the stealth bombers loosed their arrows over the lands of Persia, and the Tomahawk missiles descended upon the land of the unbelievers. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unconditionally surrendered, and the people of Iran...