Posted on November 2, 2007 by thestateofblog
“I never lost a night’s sleep over it.”
Paul. W. Tibbets Jr, the pilot of the Enola Gay, which dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing at least 80,000 people.
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Posted on November 2, 2007 by thestateofblog
Posted on November 2, 2007 by thestateofblog
Anonymous talked yesterday about her mother being a “militant.” I thought that was interesting. My (J) Dad is funny. He’s a pretty open-minded “liberal” guy and the smartest person I know. He doesn’t believe in conceptual restrictions and generally believes that the world is always making positive “progress.” We differ [...]
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Posted on November 2, 2007 by thestateofblog
Sometimes, one line in one book, a little grouping of words and concepts, can change your entire perspective on a particular subject - or maybe even life in general. That happened to me (J)recently while I was reading Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet. The Prophet is a short collection of poetic essays written by the great [...]
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