Tag: society
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London
Three things about the bombs in the London transportation system:
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O’Connor’s retirement inopportune for moderates
The LA Times is reporting that Justice O’Connor, Supreme Court’s First Woman, Is Retiring. At a time when most eyes were on the Chief Justice, this is a bit of a surprise. It is also a blow to moderates as O’Connor has been a swing vote on many divisive issues during her term. She was…
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A New Film Release Paradigm
Film Movement is a DVD-of-the-month club that releases independent films on DVD to members the same date they are released in the art house circuit. It costs $20 a month or $160 for a year, the DVDs are yours to keep, and shipping is free. This is, to me, as clever as CD Baby, and…
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misc dumb stuf
ok, so dumb stuff that i see and apparently no one else does:
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fatwa issued against bin Laden
A Spanish clerical council issued a religious decree today, the anniversary of the Madrid train bombings, saying Osama bin Laden has forsaken Islam. Neither it, nor the anniversary of the bombings, made the top stories on NBC News. Will this free other moderate clerics to doing the same? Will this open the door for Iraqi…
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pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
As I read through the NY Times this Sunday and it’s full of things about identity and democracy: the want for linking state drivers licenses together into some kind of national database; the fiasco that is consumer information and its relationship to identity theft; the rise of popular representative government in the Middle East; the…
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State of the Union
Well, it looks as though the President has learned to deliver a speech. I still doubt the validity of a Social Security crisis, and tend to believe the arguments of those not pressing for the privatization of Social Security. I’m not sure how I feel about the section on African-American empowerment… it feels like ‘help…