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10/10/07 // Link:
Through a Lens, Darkly A very long and well written Vanity Fair piece about the legacy and personal toll on the children who were part of the “Little Rock Nine,” the first African American children to attend desegregated schools in Little Rock Arkansas. During …continue reading »
10/03/07 // Link:
Video of Brutal Crackdown in Myanmar Video smuggled out a Myanmar shows protesters arrested and beaten by police. Given that Myanmar’s regime is largely backed with Chinese money and weapons, until someone convinces China to stop supplying the government, there’s little that’s going to be accomplished. …continue reading »
09/08/07 // Link:
Photo ID Cards for Indian Cattle From the land of the bizarre (via the BBC): “Indian border guards are photographing cows in villages in the eastern state of West Bengal and issuing them with identity cards, officials say.” “Border Security Force (BSF) spokesman GK Sharma said …continue reading »
08/14/07 // Link:
The New Scientist On Conspiracy Theories The New Scientist recently published an interesting article on conspiracy theories and why we believe them. The article is locked behind a paywall, but the link above leads to a reprint (probably an illegal reprint, but hey, knowledge want to …continue reading »
06/18/07 // Link:
Khmer Rouge Trials Ready to Start No one has ever faced charges for the Cambodian genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s and 80s. Pol Pot who was largely responsible for the deaths of an estimated two million Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge’s reign …continue reading »
05/24/07 // Link:
Why Bush Hasn’t Been Impeached Salon compares the Bush persidency to an abusive relationship. Perhaps that’s why I’m actively making plans to leave the country, I’ve never been the confrontational type, nor have I ever been in an abusive relationship, but were I to be …continue reading »
05/24/07 // Link:
The Last Temptation of Al Gore I’m not political and I don’t vote, but if Al Gore were to run again, I would vote for him, were I to start voting. Great piece on Gore in Time recently: “Let’s say you were dreaming up the perfect …continue reading »
05/17/07 // Link:
DeLillo Confronts September 11 Don DeLillo, author of Libra, White Noise and other tomes of paranoia has a new book coming out which is apparently about the events of September 11 2001: “Once the immediate shock and fear of the terrorist attacks of September …continue reading »
04/30/07 // Link:
You Are What You Grow Compared with a bunch of carrots, a package of Twinkies, to take one iconic processed foodlike substance as an example, is a highly complicated, high-tech piece of manufacture, involving no fewer than 39 ingredients, many themselves elaborately manufactured, as well …continue reading »
02/09/07 // Link:
Philippe Chancel Photo Essay on North Korea “It is not exaggerated to say that North Korea is one of the most isolated countries in the world. It is also the last under Stalinian regime. Here, the cult of personality, first of Kim Il Sung and now of …continue reading »
01/23/07 // Link:
Vienna gallery admits visitors to erotic art exhibition for free if they disrobe VIENNA, Austria - Vienna’s prestigious Leopold Museum is usually a pretty buttoned-down place, but on Friday, some of the nudes in its marble galleries were for real. Scores of naked or scantily clad people wandered the museum, lured by an …continue reading »
01/22/07 // Link:
Barack Obama on the Issues I know next to nothing about Obama so I was digging around to find out who he is and what he believes in and this is the best thing I’ve found. It lists some bullet points and give links to …continue reading »
12/29/06 // Link:
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein executed - CNN.com Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi dictator who spent his last years in captivity after his ruthless Baathist regime was toppled from power by the U.S.-led coalition in 2003, was hanged Saturday for crimes committed in a brutal crackdown during his …continue reading »
11/26/06 // Link:
Jerry Brown in the New York Times The former governor and new attorney general of California talks about Arnold Schwarzenegger, following in your father?s political footsteps and finally figuring out relationships.continue reading »
09/27/06 // Link:
US may ban sale of cluster bombs to Israel “The discovery of hundreds of US-made cluster bombs among the tens of thousands of unexploded munitions carpeting the south of Lebanon, has led to calls on Washington to impose a moratorium on sales of the weapons to Israel.” About time. …continue reading »