May 2008 Archives
After tonight, it does appear likely that Hillary can win, but it still seems possible that she can ensure that we and Barack lose.
. . . that the two-year-old said jump, or that the four-year-old did it.
I am half way through Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone, which I purloined from my wife before she had a chance to read it. The prose is crisp, but the writing has a nightmarish quality both because of the horror of its subject matter and its remove from ordinary experience. Watching a man's eyes give up hope before they roll back into his head as you cut his throat, seeing the mud shift and bubble as a man buried alive struggles to free himself, or viewing the ashes of the house in which your family was burned alive are scenes most of us will not have to face and which it would be easier not to imagine. The obverse of our privileged lives is all too easy to ignore, but it commands our attention.
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