News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Saturday December 27th 2025
Frank Reflections
By Frank Erickson
100 years ago White men who lynched Black men went off to fight “wars” to defend themselves and their country against aggression.
But these White men should not have been left alive to kill anyonein “war”””since they should have been killed for being terrorists by the people they were terrorizing. Yet those who opposed lynching 100 years ago did not have the violent capacity to have a “War on Terror” against the White racists.
So goes the slippery slope of claiming your right to defend yourself using violence””It is your capacity to use violence that rules the day, not your justification.
There is a long back and forth history of violence used by members of an exclusive club who commit acts of aggression but then have the capacity to use violence based on their claims of defending themselves””example, U.S. Drone attacks.
The U.S. Government will imit air strikes on ISIL if near civilians, but the box office susscess of”merican Sniper” shows that the U.S. is entertained by the slaughter of Iraqis, rather than concerned about it.
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Cut Worms And Radishes
By Peter Molenaar
“Cut worms” are members of the largest family in the Lepidoptera, i.e., they are larvae of a moth. It was not a rabbit which murdered your tender young tomato, it was the devil incarnate.
Behold the innocent one, plump and curled in the form of a C beneath the severed plant. What role in nature did its ancestors play? What Karmic consequences might ensue should you destroy it?
In this matter, I choose to honor my Christian grandmother. Straighten the “worm” between thumbs and forefingers, meditate briefly, then pop it in two.
On the other hand, experienced gardeners will follow mitigating steps:Â 1.) weed and rake the garden clean before turning the soil in late autumn, 2.) turn the soil again come spring, 3.) plant a trap crop.
Who can eat a hundred radishes? Plant them in April, weeks before setting out expensive transplants. A few fallen radishes will reveal the whereabouts”¦
Hmmm”¦philosophical notes:
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