Center for Strategic Communication

Official policy targeting weddings?

[ by Charles Cameron — as if in brutal proof that “the bed waiting inside belongs to death” — that bridal and burial veils are one ] . Does the Coalition have an official policy targeting weddings? Sorry to be so blunt about this, but I get...

The rose is my qibla

[ by Charles Cameron — some light refreshment after dark sides and devilish walks ] . ** Sources: Sohrab Sepehri, Poetic Voices of the Muslim World Wallace Black Elk, The Greenfield Review, vol 9, double issue 3 & 4 with thanks to Joseph Bruchac &...

Get up early to kill him first

[ by Charles Cameron — from Tractate Sanhedrin and Grotius to Gershon Scholem and the power of names ] . I ran across Yonatan Mendel‘s post, Kill Him First, in the Jewish Quarterly today while searching for the Habrew of the phrase get up early to kill him...

Terrorism, a ‘Pataphysical “definition”

[ by Charles Cameron — Escher, Mallarmé, Jarry, Macdonald, and Alex Schmid ] . Sources: Stuart Macdonald, entry in “Defining terrorism: an impossible puzzle” contest Stéphane Mallarmé, Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard The DoubleQuote...