America at a Crossroads

[Bill Peckham]

Anyone else watching this?

http://www.pbs.org/weta/crossroads/about/index.html

[Zach]

Great series.  You'll only find it on PBS!

[nextnoel]

Yes.  Hurray, PBS!

[glitter]

i love PBS

[Bill Peckham]

I was a bit disappointed in the first night, Sunday night's Film JIHAD: THE MEN AND IDEAS BEHIND AL QAEDA I'm reading Charles Allen's Gods Terrorists and his history points to deeper roots than the Muslim Brotherhood in the early 1900s so I wanted more information about the rise to power in the 1740s of  Muhamad ibn Abd al-Wahhab of Nejd. And back before that to Ibn Taymiyya, from the fourteenth century. But still the film was very good.

Last night was some of the most compelling TV I've seen in memory. The second hour blew me away. The reading of Here Bullet reached into and touched me. Tonight looks like it will build on the strong foundation of the first two nights.


Here, Bullet

By Brian Turner

If a body is what you want,
then here is bone and gristle and flesh.
Here is the clavicle-snapped wish,
the aorta’s opened valves, the leap
thought makes at the synaptic gap.
Here is the adrenaline rush you crave,
that inexorable flight, that insane puncture
into heat and blood. And I dare you to finish
what you’ve started. Because here, Bullet,
here is where I complete the word you bring
hissing through the air, here is where I moan
the barrel’s cold esophagus, triggering
my tongue’s explosives for the rifling I have
inside of me, each twist of the round
spun deeper, because here, Bullet,
here is where the world ends, every time.