by Robin Kirk | Feb 4, 2015 | featured, Robin Kirk
Like so many, I felt horror at the death of Jordanian pilot Muath Al-Kaseasbeh, apparently burned alive by Islamic State militants. In a slick and gruesome video, the militants celebrate the atrocity while also making the specious claim that they chose this...
by Robin Kirk | Feb 1, 2015 | featured, Robin Kirk
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.” “What a pleasant thing it would be to be a knife, always eager to take the path of least...
by Robin Kirk | Jan 25, 2015 | Robin Kirk
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.” The third man was not masked; he stayed at the door holding the dog’s collar, ready to release...
by Robin Kirk | Jan 18, 2015 | featured, Robin Kirk
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.” “Control had the feeling he did not want to see the rooms the hardware techs worked in,...
by Robin Kirk | Dec 21, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.” And yes, I know I’m extraordinarily late to this book! “Blood gushed from her soft...
by Robin Kirk | Dec 16, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
I was delving into the torture report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee last week when my daughter texted [since I originally posted this entry, new chair Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) has withdrawn the report from the site in a misguided effort to suppress...
