“Goodness! Guess I don’t handle the spicy foods like I used to! Sorry about that, underpants.”
September 22, 2005
September 22, 2005
“Recent Iraq Operations – A Flash Presentation”
For those of you interested in war coverage that goes beyond coalition casualty reports and long, ideologically-framed narratives put out by the news weeklies, check out this presentation of operations that took place Aug 27-Sep 17th in the West of Iraq around the Syrian border. The piece was developed by Steve Schippert, Marvin Hutchens and Bill Roggio, and posted at The Fourth Rail with the following introduction: The pace and
September 22, 2005
Forty-seventh in a series of real-time empirical observations
As you read this post, Canadian diva Celine Dion, having just been seated at a popular Las Vegas ristorante, bursts into tears upon being greeted by a basket of freshly-baked breadsticks and olive tapenade, demanding to know why the black tourist family seated the next table over “has yet to receive any water” and “why—in a country that can blow up the world in a matter of seconds—these poor blacks
September 22, 2005
“Spain heightens fence at African enclave”
From the Guardian:: Spanish authorities are rushing to double the height of a fence surrounding the north African enclave of Melilla after a dozen more immigrants were injured in a battle with police as they tried to find a way on to European soil. The injuries followed the deaths of at least three immigrants over the past three weeks during mass attempts to storm the frontier that have ended in
September 22, 2005
Grieving Mom Cindy Sheehan and 70s Kung-fu expert and counterculture icon Billy Jack discuss strategies for twenty-first century anti-war activism while ostensibly maintaining their commitments to fighting global terrorism, 7
“We marched on Washington, Billy! We took it to the streets and we marched—like King, or, y’know…like KING! We are taking back this country, Billy! We can no longer be ignored! We beat the streets with our determined feet—all 58 of them—and the country stood up and took notice! Sure, it wasn’t the several hundred thousand people we were hoping for—but it is a testament to what 29 determined people
September 22, 2005
Blog sorbet (or, protein wisdom eschews lengthy analysis and returns to his quirky, slightly ribald roots)
Knock knock Who’s there? COCK!
September 22, 2005
Moribund intentionalism and the death of the author II: The Wrath of Cant
Fresh from insisting that I write like shit, someone calling himself “frameone,” pontificating at length in ODub’s comments, follows up on yesterday’s discussion of racist sigification by setting the intentionalists straight: You guys misunderstand. Articulate doesn’t just mean what it means, it also signifes a level of cultural capital that, by and large, goes without saying (unconsciously) when whites speak positively about other white peers. (A white adult might refer
September 22, 2005
Roberts, Positioning, and the Politics of SCOTUS Voting
As Senate Democrats announce their intentions on the forthcoming John Roberts vote (Leahy, Feingold, , Kohl – yes; Biden, Reid, Kennedy, Feinstein, Durbin – no), a couple of things become readily apparent: first, that John Roberts will in fact be the next Chief Justice, and with a decent bi-partisan “yes” vote; and second, that—though some on the left have been pushing Senate Democrats to spend all of their political capital