Mark Levine's Inside Scoop

The Religious Right's Hotline to God

May 30, 2008

From the vault: Mark Levine at the 2005 Conference on World Affairs in Colorado.

Part 1: Why Liberals Should Read the Bible

Part 2: Biblical Views on Homosexuality, God on Coins, Adam & Eve

Part 3: Mark Levine Answers Questions/Comments

Open Thread

May 29, 2008

I’m off this week but providing you space.
Post anything you like here, except spam.
(Except poetry, which should be on the poetry page.)

Goodbye, Lebanon

May 27, 2008

The only Arab democracy in the world could not last even three years….
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Memorial Day

May 26, 2008

Fifty-one Caliber Freedom Bird
Memorial Day arouses stark memories
of grim realities,
pushin’ up daisies for all these years,
I still remember,
I still remember.
The way through the corridor of horror
was a low altitude chopper ride,
straight ahead
with wide-eyed stare through M-60-fire
into elephant grass,
Is today a good day to die
on a hot LZ,
for living in this war
is such sleepless straining torture,
Over and over
in continuous psychic loop,
over and over
in big-screen fashion,
Is it a good day to die,
report for your execution,
be a good soldier,
now, and do your duty,
Ah,
the sublime release
of the .51 caliber freedom bird,
taking me away
from all this confusion,
If only I had to die once,
and not over and over
again.
— Gordon Neumann