by Sean Dempsey When the shots were quiet and the dust was blown…When last all my innocence I’d outgrown—When I’d fought and killed, hands stained red,The last one standing, or so they said— I rose and looked around the Killing FieldWhere no broken soul was ever healed.And I yearned to find someone to hate;I sought […]
Let me justify why i posted this meme, before i’m too-badly blasted by my lefter-leaning friends. I usually despise the “Obama vs Hitler” juxtapositions as ridiculous and un-founded. So to clarify: I am NOT saying that President Obama is Hitler or that under his Presidency America will ever become a fascist, blood-hungry state. That’s lunacy […]
The three volumes of The Gulag Archipelago — one continuous, extended scream of outrage — are, paradoxically, brilliant, bitter, disbelieving and infused with awe: awe at the strength characterising the best among us, in the worst of all situations. In that monumental text, published in 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn conducted “an experiment in literary investigation” — a hybrid […]
