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A Persian President in New York: Ahmadinejad weathers “welcome” — videos

American historian Carl Becker has an astute observation, previously cited here, that often, Whether arguments command assent or not depends less upon the logic that conveys them than upon the … Continue reading

25 September, 2007 · 8 Comments

David Ray Griffin 911 Lecture in Copenhagen

I remember reading Dr David Ray Griffin’s The New Pearl Harbor a couple of years ago and being impressed by his patient, methodical reasoning in outlining both the ‘let it … Continue reading

24 September, 2007 · Leave a comment

A message from Charlie Chaplin

Here’s Charlie Chaplin (h/t Agent 99), a classic clip from his satire and first talkie, The Great Dictator, which I’ve only just viewed. It calls for a defiance of fascism. … Continue reading

23 September, 2007 · 4 Comments

The case of the curious taser incident

UPDATE II: The clearest video clip yet: Following from the UCLA student tasered last November, another incident is rapidly making its way to international coverage across the web. This time, … Continue reading

19 September, 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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