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Galloway in Doha Debate on Iraq: video

The panel is a debate (two-person per side parliamentary style) arguing the proposition that ‘This House believes that only a new dictator can end the violence in Iraq’. Arguing against … Continue reading

24 March, 2007 · Leave a comment

Bumper sticker politics

From the trite to the terrific, the funny to the furious, here are some selected slogan quotes and one-liner witticisms. This selection invariably reflects my own political and philosophic positioning … Continue reading

24 March, 2007 · 11 Comments

Zbigniew Brzezinski on The Daily Show

National Security Advisor to President Carter Zbigniew Brzezinski appeared on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show in the US recently to talk about his new book, Second Chance: Three Presidents and … Continue reading

18 March, 2007 · 4 Comments

What’s your political compass?

Are you a liberal? Been told you’re somewhere to the Right of Genghis Khan? ;) Are you libertarian or a radical? Or radically libertarian (and is there a difference?) Can … Continue reading

16 March, 2007 · 11 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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