Monthly Archives: June 2013

I Spent a Couple Hours at the Bipartisan by Myself

Posted on June 28, 2013 by M. Meo

Le progrès humain dépend, je crois en plus-part, sur l’entreprise de tradución.  Tout à l’heure, dans quelconque epoch de l’histoire de l’Europe, il y avait une langue majoritaire culturelle (le latin durant et après les siècles de l’empire romain) qui … Continue reading →

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Report from Mount Tabor

Posted on June 27, 2013 by M. Meo

The second meeting of Scott Fernandez’s group [yet to name itself officially, but Bull Run Waiver does it], whose stated goal is to obtain a waiver for the Bull Run reservoir water system, took place last night, and your intrepid … Continue reading →

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From the late Fall of 1987

Posted on June 23, 2013 by M. Meo

The Monk who Only Glosses His Sources Says There isn’t much religious in me — I confess upon long self-examination that I am atheist at heart and can only point out to myself the uncomfortable inconsistencies in the materialist world-picture … Continue reading →

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Guantanamera, Bahia Guantanamera . . .

Posted on June 18, 2013 by M. Meo

Quelquefois, mes amis, I compare the prisoners at the Legal Black Hole that is Guantanamo with Dreyfus.  France a hundred years ago accused Dreyfus of espionage, unfairly convicted him, and sent him to a Caribbean hell-hole to die an early and … Continue reading →

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Letter to the Emperor of Rome — from AD 2012

Posted on June 14, 2013 by M. Meo

The nineteenth-century Anglophone novelist Joseph Conrad set the scene of the opening of one of his most widely-read novels down-river from London, at dusk. The sun set; the dusk fell on the stream, and lights began to appear along the shore. … Continue reading →

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The Hedgehog and the Fox

Posted on June 13, 2013 by M. Meo

Wir beginnen, meine Damen und Herren, avec un petit peu d’histoire.  Stephen Dowell, The Portlandian, vol. 1, No. 2, p. 2: In 1957 the Oregon constitution was amended . . . (Article VI, section 10) allow[ing] local electors the opportunity to form … Continue reading →

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The Militarization of Emily

Posted on June 12, 2013 by M. Meo

Longtime community utilities activist Scott Fernandez hosted a coalition meeting at the Presbyterian  [the Presbyterians, perhaps following up their historic leadership of the Emancipation movement in the United States some 170 years ago, have during the last 20 years distinguished … Continue reading →

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Is it 1986 ? Or 2001 ? No, wait . . . 2013 ?

Posted on June 5, 2013 by M. Meo

None of these.  It is September 27th:  1191 AD. Imagine yourselves, gentle readers, riding a horse along a road going south, accompanying Richard the Lion-hearted in his armed column of a little over 2000 knights on the Levantine coast marching … Continue reading →

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Cosmologist Jaki discussed in a Letter to An Old Friend

Posted on June 3, 2013 by M. Meo

619 22nd St.  Oakland  94612  4 May 1987 Dear old Friend, I haven’t begun a program of counseling — outside of writing letters to a list of potential supporters — but I have found a certain amount of inner peace … Continue reading →

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Uns brauchen Geisteswissenschaften, Genossen!

Posted on June 3, 2013 by M. Meo

Nach mit der faulseitigen Entschuldigungen; uns müssen die ganze natürlicher Welt mit vereinigten Stimme verteidigen.  Und was, lieber Genossen, müssen wir en juntos, ensemble Verfahren führen ?  Wir die entgehender [und hier meine Wortschatzbuch zwei  verschiedener Wörter gibt, die Suche und das Suchen, und ich … Continue reading →

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