I just cannot bring myself to write a fourth Gadhafi song. I just can’t. My previous thoughts in three related blong entries are here, here, and here and are also featured in individual audio players below. As my August 25 post indicated, I was poised to write the obituary. But, he persisted. For nearly two […]
Category: foreign affairs
Iranamok
I love it. I had a boss shortly out of college that murdered me over a concert advertisement that was placed (by me) but failed to run in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. After literally screaming at me over the phone, it was readily determined that the mistake was on the Constitution’s end, exclusively. He didn’t […]
A Haunting Praematura
I was all prepared to post a song about the fall of Gadhafi but apparently he is not sensitive to this site’s traditional Monday/Thursday song schedule and continued to resist the rebel/allied pursuit even through today. The whole thing is crazy. In one moment, there will be a report of his demise and then, in […]
Falling Down
It’s worth remembering that the advanced and relatively civilized condition of our present society is the product of men who believed this: “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on […]
The Hangover
ipoetblog.com just got an audio upgrade, girls: Happy Fourth of July. I’ve been recording late into the night from an undisclosed location in the NC mountains. I thought I would celebrate this independence holiday with a song about Thailand politics. Of course. Nothing is more red-blooded and American than a weekend in Bangkok. See The […]
Oh Pakistan
[wpaudio url=”http://www.ipoetblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/my-pakistan-2.mp3″ dl=”0″ text=”My Pakistan“] Torture and intrigue. A mutual confession. Performed by ipoet. Music produced by Sundance.
What Does It Profit a Man? – The Death of Osama Bin Laden
I was driving to Charleston last night when a friend texted the news. The network on my phone was suspiciously not loading CNN. I was about an hour from any major city and I was panning the Amplitude Modulation frequency in a panic for detail. I would get 30 seconds of information that would rapidly […]
To Keep Watch
There are a lot of reasons not to believe Christianity. And, there are a lot of reasons to prefer deism, agnosticism, and/or atheism. I constantly entertain them. The position without almost any colorable basis is the one that eliminates the right to consider it all, as a person of conscience b]]><![CDATA[efore the Creator/universe. Apparently, even […]
Côte d’Ivoire
The Ivory Coast has recently been engulfed in renewed violence over elections had some five months ago. The former president Laurent Gbagbo refuses to evacuate office after losing the election to the man that the international community recognizes as the legitimate winner and president, Alassane Ouattara. Ouattara’s Republican forces have seized large portions of the […]
50 Year Emergency
Man, this one was a near miss. Some difficult personal tragedy yesterday. And then I had to travel. Wrote a bit in the car. Punched it out about 2 am. Pretty exhausted. Soft protests in Syria have led to the lifting of 50 years of emergency law, which suspended whatever normal legal “protections” existed for […]
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