War Is Over If We Do More Than Want It To Be

By Matthew Rothschild
The Progressive, December 22, 2006

So this is Christmas.

And that old John Lennon song keeps playing in my mind: “War is over, if you want it.”

I’ve always puzzled over this song, though-especially that lyric.

War isn’t over just by wanting it to be so.

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war is over

if we want it

like an undersea creature in the greenhouse this bromeliad


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and got 88,200,000 hits. surely there is some in the world for one who has so many other things. yet i am losing my smile, which was tenuous to begin with, and the muscles of happiness seem no longer to warm my face ( Read more... )

firing squad louisiana style:
bang bang bam boom bang bang bang bang blam bangmoral of the story-- don't be poor black and crazy here, coz the blue bitch will waste your lonely ass in broad daylight ( Read more... )

neither prick nor cunt,

today's word is prunt


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Now that medical science has established that coffee is an important source of antioxidants that help prevent cancer, heart disease, diabetes and stroke, you and I can get on with our lives. A cup of coffee is what starts our engines and saves us from torpor and lassitude. We always knew this. Starbucks was built on the idea that there is no such ( Read more... )