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USA Inc. Product Recall: Faulty Post-Invasion Democracy

Thank to my friend Abe in Sydney for forwarding this. I had initially missed this bit of larrikin Aussie humour last month, but then I’m not a regular reader of … Continue reading

22 December, 2006 · 3 Comments

Israel arms sales peak despite Lebanon war fallout

Well, there you have it. Notwithstanding that arms deals may take many months and so started before the assault on Lebanon, that’s no excuse — isn’t the brutal occupation of … Continue reading

19 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Andy Singer’s Artful Juxtapositions

“Whether arguments command assent or not depends less upon the logic that conveys them than upon the climate of opinion in which they are sustained.” Carl Becker, 1938 Cartoons often … Continue reading

11 December, 2006 · 8 Comments

Bridging the Digital Divide with $150 laptops

Its all too easy to see why this commendable initiative is being derided by MS and Intel – it doesn’t use Windows and runs in competition with their attempts to … Continue reading

3 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

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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