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Suddenly, I finally get Sigur Rós^*.

And now I am nearly speechless, in awe at the sheer melancholy beauty all around me as I proceed through each of their recordings.

As an example, check this lovely video of Glósóli, which ends in a way some of my dreams begin.

The thing I’m loving most about studying Spanish here in the U.S. is it’s such a big ol’ FU to Dobbsian anti-immigration bigotry.

I’m quick to admit my foreseer is on again/off again, and regularly needs a swift kick to work at all. But I did foresee this outcome; it drives much of the deep grief I felt and feel …

The Religious Right’s embrace of its current worldview and consequent behaviors is starting to [measurably] bear its bitter fruit, as identified by The Barna Group in a new study, A New Generation Expresses its Skepticism and Frustration with Christianity:

The money spent on one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes with renewable electricity, according to the American Friends Service Committee, which displayed those statistics on large banners in cities nationwide Thursday and Friday.

The war is costing $720 million a day or $500,000 a minute …

—Washington Post, Saturday, September 22, 2007; Page A11

“Our representatives — and to a great degree we as a culture — are completely buffaloed by shamelessness.”

“Bush may ignore the 4th Circuit’s stinging rebuke of his war paradigm. But his policies are losing the cloak of legality.”

“Here’s a bold prediction: Evangelicals will present few if any obstacles for the Democrats in next year’s presidential race, but may prove problematic for the Republican nominee.”

I seem to have utterly run out of things to say. Over the past 5+ years here I’ve said what I found I had to. Then, few enough were speaking out against the rampaging blaspheming criminality that is BushCo; now, many write about it far better than I can.

Upside is, I’m spending the quiet time now fulfilling a lifelong goal: finally learning another language (German)!