March | 2003 | Abject

Epitaph on a tyrant Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children […]

Experimental Jetset Vibraphone Flash version: try different combinations for Harmonic Relaxation. Via (the sleeping) Sharpeworld.

Rummy gives a history lesson Mr. Rumsfeld said he was “reluctant” to encourage uprisings explicitly. “I guess those of us my age remember uprisings in Eastern Europe back in the 1950s, when they rose up and they were slaughtered,” he said. “I am very careful about encouraging people to rise up. We know there are […]

Profiles in disillusion: “I think I was living in a pipe dream thinking no one would get killed,” Shirley Johnson, 79, a registered Republican from Davenport, Iowa, said in a follow-up interview. “But all of a sudden people were getting killed, and I was horrified.” Pam Wallman, 60, who lives in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., said, […]

Author Paul William Roberts, author of The Demonic Inferno, is covering Iraq War II for Harper’s: I have been in and out of Iraq more often than the Turkish army these past few days, viewing the war both firsthand and on the surprisingly copious array of television news channels available all over Syria and Jordan. […]