Category Archives: peace

Who Won The Kentucky Derby

May 4, 2013 – 6:01 pm

This afternoon Orb won the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Orb paid $12.80 to win on a sloppy track of mud. Not a single sportscaster mentioned that today eight US soldiers had been killed in Afghanistan or that its President was still receiving millions of dollars each day from the CIA. [...]

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Kent State 1970

May 4, 2013 – 3:55 pm

Forty-three years ago John Filo snapped an iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio, a fourteen-year-old runaway, kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller after he was shot dead by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970. I was 17. Richard Nixon had been elected President in 1968, promising to end the Vietnam [...]

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Gong-gyeog, Gong-gyeog, Gong-gyeog

April 6, 2013 – 11:33 am

My mother loved the Pearl Harbor movie TORA TORA TORA. TORA TORA TORA meant ‘attack attack attack’ in Japanese. Gong-gyeog, Gong-gyeog, Gong-gyeog translates the same in Korean. This week North Korea has suggested to Russia and the UK that they abandon their diplomatic missions in Pyongyang before April 10, stating that the government will not [...]

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Pacem In Terris

March 31, 2013 – 3:27 pm

Pope John XXIII wrote the Easter encuclical PACEM IN TERRIS in 1963. The Pontiff was upset by how close the world had come to global destruction during the Cuban Missile Crisis and his holiday missive was addressed not only the Faithful, but ‘all men of good will’. His treatise also extolled the rights of man, [...]

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Hide Easter Bunny Hide

March 24, 2013 – 12:20 pm

IDF Easter Egg Hunt. If they can’t find eggs, then they go after the Bunny. It’s a bigger target.

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