Archive for November, 2002
Qualifications for Inspectors?
“ This is an alarming article in the Washington Post, which reveals that no background checks were conducted for the UN arms inspectors. Considering the importance of their task it is shocking.
I don’t care for the Washington Posts’ use of one inspector’s leadership in an S&M club as a way of smearing him. It doesn’t […]
The Adventures of Hamza
“The Adventures of Hamza will reunite nearly 70 of the finest surviving paintings from the Hamzanama, a fourteen volume manuscript created by Persian and Indian artists and commissioned by the Indian Mughal emperor Akbar (r. 1556 - 1605) when he was still a teenager. The paintings, fewer than 200 of which are believed to exist […]
Talking with Friends and Family About Iraq: A Holiday Gathering Guide
Although phrased as a sort of Haggada, and some of the facts are slightly questionable, this is a generally good overview of the problems with the war on Iraq and well worth taking a look at.
“Like people everywhere, most people in the US think it
Kissinger to investigate the government? Not a hoax, but a true story!
“Asking Henry Kissinger to investigate government malfeasance or nonfeasance is akin to asking Slobodan Milosevic to investigate war crimes. Pretty damn akin, since Kissinger has been accused, with cause, of engaging in war crimes of his own. Moreover, he has been a poster-child for the worst excesses of secret government and secret warfare. Yet George […]
Moved E-mail List to Bloglet
I moved everyone on the e-mail subscription list to a new service run by bloglet.com. You should have received a message confirming your subscription. Save that message! If you need to change your subscription in the future I can no longer do it for you, but you will have to log on to Bloglet and […]
John Rawls Dies
“John Rawls, who served as the Conant professor emeritus and was one of the most notable political and moral philosophers of the 20th century, died at his home in Lexington on Sunday. He was 81.”
The Harvard Crimson
Kavalan recognized as 11th Aboriginal “tribe.”
“The Executive Yuan is set to approve a Council of Aboriginal Affairs proposal to recognize the Kavalan as the nation’s 11th Aboriginal tribe. `Taipei Times’ reporter Ko Shu-ling talked with the director of the council’s Planning Department Lin Chiang-i.”
Taipei Times
Afghan Action
Here is a list of upcoming readings by the authors of Women for Afghan Women.
Bush listens to Chomsky’s advice?
I wasn’t going to blog this item by Chomsky, but now that the NY times is reporting that we are actually following Chomsky’s “modest proposal” I had to!
No Blogging till Monday
I’m heading to New Orleans, so no blogs till I get back. If I miss anything truly momentous let me know! Otherwise I’ll assume it is buisness as usual…
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
