Ishmael Reed

[Michael Bailey]

 Joseph Tracy  wrote:
> I don't hate anyone, despite my screw Obama attitude. I don't  think most
> anti-war types even want revenge though I think some leaders have become
> criminal forces that would be best permanently restrained ( Should Cheney
> and Rummy really be free?).

the classic test in the shrink world is "do they pose a danger to
themselves or to others" // I'm hard pressed not to hate warmongers,
but it's a losing game, emotional-economy-wise.  Trying to think of a
winning strategy (or a "stable strategy" like in Eileen Gunn's short
story...)

one of the most moving passages so far in Hitch-22 is where he hears
that Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum, for the first time.  Between that
and reading How Green was my Valley, I think he intends to say, rests
the credit for turning him from the path of his Tory upbringing.

-- 
"Why must I be like that? Why must I chase the cat?" - George Clinton,
Atomic Dog