JOY

"Whatever joy there is in this world,
All comes from desiring others to be happy.

And whatever suffering there is in this world,

All comes from desiring myself to be happy."

-Shantideva

BABYLON

Prime Minister-Elect, Ayad Allawi, is escorted by a security entourage after his bloc is declared the slim victor in Iraq's Parliamentary election. He maintains a secular, anti-Iran platform.

OVERLOAD

"If it's love, it's ELECTRIC."

-from Style-O, The Gorillaz featuring Mos-Def & Bobby Wommack

BOGART

"Always as it is today? Always a world only for politics, profiteers, waiters and pleasure-seekers, and not a breath of air for men?"
-Steppenwolf, by H. Hesse

GOD'S LONELY MAN

"My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There has never been any choice for me. Loneliness has followed me all my life. The life of loneliness pursues me wherever I go. In bars, cars, coffee shops, theatres, stores, sidewalks. There is no escape. I am God's lonely man."

-Taxi Driver, Written by Paul Schrader

THE APOSTLE

Directed by Robert Duvall

SIN, NOT CRIME

Clint Eastwood in "White Hunter, Black Heart"

PRESIDENT

"Art is truth."
-John F. Kennedy