Archive for August, 2004
Wag the Dog
Here is a fascinating terror alert timeline showing what else was happening whenever the department of Homeland Security raised the terror alert level.
Didn’t Tom Ridge ever read the story of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf!” when he was a kid?
Fundamentalism
I’m finally reading Mamdani’s book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror (discussed previously here and here), and I was struck by his history of the term “fundamentalism,” taken largely from Karen Armstrong’s work:
The term “fundamentalism” was invented in 1920 by the Rev. Curtis Lee Laws and was immediately […]
Coming Out
Gold!
Mariel Zagunis won the first gold medal for the United States in modern fencing history!
In her final match, Zagunis commanded the bout against Xue Tan of China from the beginning, running an 8-2 streak by the first break. Zagunis fenced with tenacity and imagination, scoring for instance with point-in-line at 5-2.
After the break Tan rallied, […]
rhodolite demonstrable codfish
A poem I composed from today’s SPAM “subject” lines:
rhodolite demonstrable codfish
Re: Everything went giddy with
Are you a loser?
buddy,deal with your problems!
daunt
Hey
you have been approved.
philosopher bubbles over 711
PLease look at this
PILLS PILLS PILLS!!!!
that the storm was
Surplus Machinery
do you wish you were 20 again?
Разошлем вашу рекламу по Сети.
Ekvator Harita Tanıtım
情人節快到了~~帶走吧!!哈哈!!
i’m srory i told eevyrobdy your sceret
the food […]
Non-violence
In his book Stupid White Men, Michael Moore included an open letter to Palestinian President Arafat:
I have the key to your success. I know how you can unilaterally end the killing on both sides – and, as a bonus, wind up with a Palestinian state!
I know, you’re thinking, “Hey, who is this guy?” And […]
Talk to US
Talk to US addresses a critical problem: US policies impact the whole world, but non-Americans have few ways to communicate directly with mainstream America. The international voices Americans do hear often represent only the extremes — not ordinary people from around the world.
Talk to US is changing this by gathering and distributing 30 second video […]
Sudan
Sudan: The Passion of the Present is “an independent, non-partisan, all-volunteer community initiative to stop the genocide in Sudan.”
This link via Ethan Zuckerman, who has some interesting thoughts about why bloggers aren’t writing more about Darfur, even though there is pretty decent media coverage:
The truth is, the media’s done an excellent job in the last […]
芭比娃娃
That’s Chinese for “Barbie Doll”.
There are a bunch of museums that feature Barbie dolls: There is the Hawaii Loves Barbie Doll Museum, with about 5,000 Barbies. The J&M Barbie Museum in the Netherlands has about half as many. The Strong Museum in Rochester, New York just got 1,500 Barbie dolls earlier this year. But […]
War on Immigrants
Two big changes in policy this week translate into a major assault by Bush on undocumented immigrants.
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
