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We face neither East nor West. We face forward.
--Kwame Nkrumah
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
--John Ciardi
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
--Bertold Brecht
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
--George Bernard Shaw
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
--John Kenneth Galbraith
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
--Anatole France
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
--Karl Marx
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
--Alexis de Tocqueville
Someone once said that life is not a bed of roses -- an Italian proverb, I hear. A fair assessment to say the least, except for the thorns that are very real and keep the bloody world churning.
--Gilles d'Aymery
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
--George Bernard Shaw
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Gilles d'Aymery
Saying Goodbye To A Friend - 05/19
Le Roi S'Amuse - 05/5
Blips #141 - 04/21
Contrast Between Russia And The USA - 03/24
Crimea With Ockham's Razor - 03/10
Putin Under Siege - 02/24
Blips #140 - 01/13
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Michael Barker
Ruling-Class Peace? - 04/7
An Education Fit For The Elite (Part II of II) - 03/24
An Education Fit For The Elite (Part I of II) - 03/10
Green Guru (Part II of II) - 01/27
Green Guru (Part I of II) - 01/13
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Jan E. Baughman
The Ineradicable Charles Marowitz - 05/19
Another Week In The Culture Of Life - 05/5
The New World Of Expensive Speech - 04/7
Here We Go Again - 03/10
Waging War On Women - 01/27
Altered States Of Notoriety - 01/13
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Paul Buhle
A Writer On Her Own Path - 05/5
World War 3 Takes On Mortality - 02/24
Heroic Lives - 01/13
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Peter Byrne
"A Death In The Family" - 05/19
Burying Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014) - 05/5
Looking For Elias Along The Danube - 04/21
Cold Quebec's Boiling Point - 04/7
Ankara: Goats And Power - 03/24
Writing It Right In All Weather - 03/10
Living Room - 02/24
Claudio Abbado 1933-2014 - 01/27
Reader Burnout - 01/27
Pals - 01/13
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Guido Monte & Friends
To Charles Marowitz - 05/19
Pino's Tale - 05/5
Vulnus - 04/21
Greek Myths - 04/7
Block-Notes - 03/24
Dust and breath - 03/10
Times of dreams - 02/24
From the Book of Revelation - 01/27
Ashabdam - 01/13
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Raju Peddada
The Museum Of Sentiments - Part II - 05/5
The Vanished And Their Sold Memories - Part I - 04/21
How Plutarch Rescued Me - 04/7
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: His Inventive and Curative Magnificence - Part II - 03/24
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: His Humane and Transcendental Brilliance - Part I - 03/10
The Tip Of Ecstasy! - 02/24
Overture - Part II - 01/27
Overture - Part I - 01/13
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Jonah Raskin
Sex And Politics Make For Strange Bedfellows - 03/24
Harlem On His Mind: The Life and Work of Carl Van Vechten - 03/10
New York II: A Valentine's Day Card - 02/24
New York Day: Waiting For The Blizzard - 02/24
Notes On Cool - 01/27
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Glenn Reed
To Hell With Mincing Words - 05/19
Insomnia, The Wee Hours, & The Furthest City Light - 05/5
"Millennial" Apathy & A World On the Cusp - 04/21
Bird Sounds And The Spirit Of Place - 04/7
A Tale Of Two "Socially Responsible" Corporations - 03/24
"Justice" Usually Is As Power Demands - 03/10
Confessions Of The Grandson Of A Republican - 02/24
The Tribal Drums Of The NFL & Super Bowlfuls Of Capitalistic Orgasms - 01/27
Union vs. Non-Union: A View From the Trenches of the Mental Health Field - 01/13
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SWANS
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - 05/19
Swans: 2014 Predictions - 12/30/2013
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In memoriam
Philip Greenspan (1926-2008)
Richard Macintosh (1933-2005)
Charles Marowitz (1932-2014)
Martin Murie (1925-2012)
Isidor Saslav (1938-2013)
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Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.
The Persistence Of Mathematics In Ethics And The Judgment Of Moral Character - 03/24
Of The Mythic Worlds Of The Past - 01/13
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Other Columnists
Gregory Elich: A Hammer Against Complacency - 04/21
Karen Moller: Home Is Where Your Heart Is - 01/27
Walter Trkla: Ukraine And Canadian Prime Minister Harper's Hypocrisy - 04/21
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Occasional Contributors
Vita Fabbro: Dust and breath - 03/10
Steven Hohensee: The Gall Of Vladimir Putin - 03/10
Catherine Rosario: Islamic Extremism And The Merchant Of Venice - 03/10
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