Month: September 2005
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oh what a wicked web we weave
So the big news of the day is that a Federal Judge of the 9th Circuit – the one in San Francisco – struck down the addition by Congress in the 1950s of the words “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance. This will send fundamentalists into a tizzy and, since it will have to,…
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on hubris
Hubris is a word that has gotten a lot of use in the last two weeks and whenever that happens, its worth taking a look at the meanings of the word. Hubris is fun because it is a purely Greek word that hasn’t been morphologically changed since the days of Sophocles (4th Century B. C.).…
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The obligatory post about Katrina and the Flood of New Orleans
Well, its been a week since Katrina made landfall and it seems that more than anything, this has been a colossal failure of the State to meet its obligations to “protect the weak from the wicked” as Tom Paine would say, though in this case wickedness seems to be lurking in the aggregate of bureaucratic…
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Booklist for the Network Revolution
I’ve been asked by a number of people for a list of books that would cover the “new ideas” that are driving the current transitional confluence of forces in those civilizations reaching the end of the Industrial Age. I have chosen to not list books in the domains of Technology, Economics, Business, and Politics because…