Splash du Jour: Tuesday

I must admit that the other night (Sunday), watching President Bush’s Address to the Nation, disturbed me.
And reminded me of a book I once read, called The Man Who Was Thursday.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
-- G.K. Chesterton, in the novel, The Man Who Was Thursday –

Not to get too political here, but let us remember:

Readers are inclined by sensibility to look beneath the surface, to analyze and make distinctions. As Americans, we need to hold on to the freedom to make crucial distinctions, to see clearly, to think intelligently and logically, to avoid the siren songs of prejudice, ideology, nationalism and sectarianism, of simplistic and reductive rhetoric and propaganda, regardless of their source. As citizens of the world, we need to remember — as Samuel Beckett said, echoing Chekhov a century before — "in the particular is contained the universal."
-- Francine Prose --

Have a great Tuesday!