From the monthly archives:

September 2008

Mad farmers

September 17, 2008

OK, one more for today. Found a wonderful Wendell Berry poem, “The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” courtesy of Slacktivist. In light of current circumstances, the last stanza particularly resonates:

Go with your love to the fields.
Lie down in the shade. Rest your head
in her lap. Swear allegiance
to what is nighest your thoughts.
As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn’t go. Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.

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Obligatory Election Post

September 17, 2008

Wow, two in one day? What did they put in my latte this morning?

I could go into a long ramble, but since I already did that once this morning, I think I’ll just post the best summation of the McCain campaign I’ve seen so far . From The Confabulum:

Presented with the possibility of being a little short on the beef, [McCain's] campaign has determined to utterly void itself of beef, and run on cow farts instead.

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Things We Used to Know

September 17, 2008

This will be a rare long one…I’ve been thinking a lot about apocalypse lately.
It’s not quite what it sounds like.
What I mean is that all indicators seem to be pointing to a time where a lot of the way I (and most of the Western world) live is going to change due to outside factors [...]

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