Today, a fourfer!
2026-07-22
A composer and guitarist who's missed to this very day.
Glad to see this site is out there -> https://steveclarkguitar.com/
2026-07-21
Here's one dimension of the patriarchy, that Western feminists are rather silent on.
That part involving brown people, on their own land.
How Israel has used sexualized violence as a weapon of settler colonialism from 1948 to today
An extensive new Palestinian Feminist Collective report traces Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians from the 1948 Nakba to Gaza today, showing it isn't incidental abuse but a deliberate tool of ethnic cleansing and control.
Gendered violence is an inherent tool of settler colonialism and is not unique to Israel. Here in the United States, another settler colonial state, the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) movement has highlighted the impunity surrounding the sexual assault of indigenous women on reservations where overlapping US and native criminal jurisdictions have made indigenous women particularly vulnerable to sexual assault. That it remains a significantly under-resourced and unaddressed crisis is not an accident.
Similarly, Zionist ideology, as a nation-making enterprise, necessitates the dispossession of Palestinian land and, ultimately, Palestinian elimination through juridical negation — denying their right to self determination, forced removal, containment, and/or destruction. Sexual violence is central to that effort as it both advances ethnic cleansing ambitions and shatters the social cohesion of those Palestinians who remain.
Why? Because it's about destroying an entire culture and community of people, and that includes everyone (children, women, and men), and that's a reality that the West is incapable of acknowledging; let alone taking responsibility.
A reminder that the rich and powerful will never really ever stop their destruction of the planet on their own.
They will either have to be stopped by the people of the planet, or they'll be stopped when the planet is no longer inhabitable for said people.
And, it makes me wonder 1) when they'll try again to foil a resistance to their actions and, 2) how long can people remain vigilant and ever alert.
On days like this ...
... I remind myself that in any hierarchical situation, there'll always be those who end up on top. And, often times, it's because they use their knowledge as a weapon, and that the hierarchy allows - or even encourages - them to do so. All of this is in pursuit of profit - not 'growth' as some like to say.
Knowing this, I'm learning to let a lot go in that I try to not take things directed at me personally; even if that's what's intended.
I have too many things in life that 1) Give me joy, and 2) I actively am pursuing. I'm not going to let things that happen in that hierarchy affect me, because I'm choosing to not allow myself to get drawn in further. I only get involved if I have a professional responsibility to do so, and leave it at that.
2026-07-17
One of days where I hate growing old.
Getting old is something no one can avoid.
But seeing yourself one day, then 20 years go by and seeing yourself again, that's different.
That's what sucks, at times.
Of course, it's genetics, Life choices, blah, blah, blah.
And it's better than death.
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This time it'll be a little longer than normal. We'll see how well things go. After all, it does apparently keep me employed.
