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"Language Games" is a story from my manuscript, Work Book. It's up at 5_Trope right here. The story is about my time as a teaching assistant and MFA student in creative writing.

It's good to see Maile Champman's work again. Great stuff as always.

To follow up on that, Bush is speaking of the need to say one's peaceful and that one has peace in one's intentions. That's all one needs to do. This is the first mask to wear. Then, when everyone's looking, one puts on the other mask in the hand, the mask of war with capitalist profiteering head-strap, and says, We are peaceful. We are creating a war because we are inherently peaceful people. We don't wish to make war so often and with so much blood in the air, on the trees, on the earth, but we are peaceful people, and we must peacefully kill people in order to be peaceful. Then, when a person is ready to follow this logic, the mask must also begin to lump everyone in to two camps, those with it and United States peacefulness and those against the U.S., the certain terrorists and thirsty murderers, who are illogically trying to defend themselves from the peaceful.

France has never been much better, but thankfully they had the sense to "stand up to" the sham/the shameful U.S. push to war in Iraq.

In the "I can't even hear what I'm saying" column, Bush had this to say about Hamas, while not connecting up his comments with his own actions:

"A political party, in order to be viable, is one that professes peace, in my judgment, in order that it will keep the peace."

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A drunken, enraged man was yelling "Fuck you all" down the street about an hour ago. He staggered and continued on, with his caroling of obscenities. He turned down a side street and serenaded it as well.

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The Battle of Algiers is one of the finest, most potent films I've seen. I watched it tonight.