[ via Janet L. ] Robert Wright ponders what “Axis of Evil” might mean: “It means Bush is on a mission from God.” Does that mean that bin Laden’s the neo Nazi chasing him in a Pinto? Is his mom ‘The Penguin’? Can he sing “Rubber Bisquit”? “It means Bush is drunk on serotonin.” Didn’t [...]
Mark Morford likes the new iMac: It looks like a big vanity mirror stuck atop a large scoop of white rice. It’s utterly annoying in that whole getting-it-right sort of way. It forces you to justify instant feelings of rabid consumerism. It makes you want one. Immediately.
Hitchens echoing my increasing frustration with how we are prosecuting the war on terror: [ John Walker ] has illuminated the utter unfitness of our police and intelligence chiefs for the supreme power they now wish and propose to award themselves. And he has also accidentally exposed the stupidity and nastiness of the Patriot Act. [...]
[ via Wardco Industries ] Morons.org challenges you to distinguish between old and new demagouges.
On the Viridian mailing list, Bruce Sterling reports on the recent Algerian floods. What made them catastrophic was that the ruling junta had sealed off storm sewers to prevent them from being used by Islamic millitants. (((Now there’s a curiosity for you, ladies and gentlemen: it’s a Mujihadeen-Related Wexelblat Disaster. And it’s rather unlikely to [...]
Bush speechwriter Peggy Noonan thinks it’s just wonderful that men are back. Let’s consider this: The Taliban (all men) declared war on women. A man declared war on America. Men attacked the WTC. Two men (Falwell and Robertson) blamed the September 11th attacks on women. And a man is prosecuting an inconsistent war on #2 [...]
Alamut reprints Samuel P. Huntington’s famous article from Foriegn Relations that predicts the next major conflict will be between “The West and everybody else.” It’s interesting to read articles such as these at the same time our leaders are saying “this is not a war against Islam.”
The Nation’s put together an index page for all their articles and editorials on the WTC/Pentagon attacks, as well as related articles from their archives.
Great op-ed by Edward Said on Topic A: We must start thinking about ourselves as responsible for the poverty, ignorance, illiteracy, and repression that have come to dominate our societies, evils that we have allowed to grow despite our complaints about Zionism and imperialism. How many of us, for example, have openly and honestly stood [...]
This is a rather long entry, which starts in one place and ends in another, so hold off on the flames until you read the whole thing. Noam Chomsky replies to Christopher Hitchens’ op-eds on The Nation’s web site from the past couple of weeks. Hitchens called Chomsky out for comparing the WTC attack to [...]
Phil Agre collected hundreds of URLs related to the WTC/Pentagon attacks. All the URLs are now archived in one place.
Christopher Hitchens has been berating fellow leftists (I suppose present company is included) for even thinking that the WTC/Pentagon attacks had anything to do with what the US has done in the Middle East. Let’s pause a moment to appreciate Mr. Hitchens in action. And this is precisely, now, our problem. The Taliban and its [...]
On the Viridian design list, Bruce Sterling says farewell to the ten years of relative peace and beauty we had in the 1990′s.
[ via Scripting News ] Caleb Carr (The Alienist) talks about the War of 1812 in relation to the WTC Attack. The British burnt down the Congress and the White House, massacred civilians, and did other things we’d call Terror. Aaron of aaronland.net says: “This is simply wrong. The War of 1812 was started, as [...]
[ via FoRK ] I haven’t had a chance to read this site. So no comments yet. There are comments by twelve recent Nobel Peace Prize recipients on the 9-11 attacks.