Mercurial

Arnett is attacked!

L.T. Smash has an interview with Peter Arnett, dangerous thing to consider these days

Here is the link from the Aljazeerah mirror, regarding the firing of Arnett.

UPDATE: It seems, from woolgathering, that the Iraq media requires of foreign correspondants to allow themselves to be interviewed - therefore, it is not about Arnett being dumbly outspoken, or using the war as personal vehicle, but being caught between what his employers wanted - bland info - and what the people that have control of the land where he is now want, mainly, his (Western) description of things. Of course, had he read the editorial to the WaPo instead of talking about what everybody knows, he would have still commited the sin of speaking outside what was allowed.
Propaganda war. Of course.

no War posters

via the dog

Firewall for Gates

If you were ever to accept the proposed terms of the mini-DMCAs, as reported here, you may face yourself in serious trouble:

Censorship

Andrew Orlowski, from San Francisco, on the Hearst Corporation immemorial tactics against its reporters:

Predictions

Joshua Marshall quotes an email received from a diplomat and military man:

Design

Just finished looking at Bea’s site, and oh I so do like it. I don’t do design. My approaches to redesign are more like a kludge, an eternal modification, a line here a line there, while listening to Estrella Morente and hoping that the flamenco might give me an idea.
But I can not think in visual terms. I do see relationships, can identify causes and effects, and even see trends. My visualizations are related to smells and tastes, my memories of the fruits I could get at my parent’s finca and the colors of the creek that crossed all along, ponds where we would play after a hike that would last all that intense morning.
I have no visuals – memories that are hard to grasp, intentions, understandings. My design – if any - is minimalist, a small thing of beauty if you happen to live in a Buddhist monastery, but not made to compete with USA today.
And that same seriousness would expand into all my tasks and pleasures – a small movement here, a little color there. Intensity in intent, brevity in expression.

Heavenward

Ailina has hope, yet so deply touches with her description

Iq Uq

Why do intelligent people do stupid thing? Like blogging at three o'clock in the morning?

From disenchanted

Geneva for GTMO

It is not about prisoners opf war, or about what the geneva Convention says, anymore that tihis is about war. Even though George Monbiot clearly identifies the grave sins of the USA on the treatment of prisoners, and the atrocities being committed under the guise of national security, it is clear this is about USA might and its thirst for expansion.

Our glorious leader

Further to my little post down there with the posters of famous dictators, this little snippet about US soldiers being asked to pray for Bush.

independent

The Bear on the essence of blogging

Mecca-Cola

Mecca-Cola

Iraq Mail Scam

Just fitting that, now, we have the Iraqi variation of the Nigerian Mail Scam:

Friday V

the friday five, altruistic and banal as always.
1. What was your most memorable moment from the last week? Saturday night. Long and interesting.
2. What one person touched your life this week? Nikky
3. How have you helped someone this week? Getting this phone list going. Teaching Spanish pro bono.
4. What one thing do you need to get done by this time next week? WFU?
5. What one thing will you do over the next seven days to make your world a better place? Blog against GWB.

Posters

Long live the great Stalin!


With regard to the great teacher Chairman Mao, cherish the word 'Loyalty'. With regard to the great Mao Zedong Thought, vigorously stress the word 'Usefullness'.


"I had made it clear to the world that either you're with us or you're with the enemy, and that doctrine still stands"

This incredible gallery of posters of two past glorious leaders and a current one, via Cory (by now everybody should know who is Cory Doctorow) , who in turn got this from a guy named George. Not that he posts or anything.
I added that last one. Incredibly appropriate, isn't it?

Not sleeping

Insomnia

Ankara

Chris Allbritton reports from Ankara, with a twist:

Ordnance

A little bit of info on the new Politically Correct bomb

It still is

From Robert Fisk, in the an account of the bombing in the marketIndependent

Combat boots

Poor British soldiers have to resort to wearing Iraqi boots, because they do not have the supplies needed.
Meanwhile, at the Haliburton headquarters, stock has gone up $7.78 from six months ago. If I had one million shares, I would be millionaire already! Cheney must be.

Poland fell already

So sad. Already Poland has fallen.

Google Dancing

Google has danced, and as a result my site disappeared from the first pages of the search. It was heady to be ahead of Noble prize winner Camilo José Cela or pianist Michel Camilo. Still.

Moco y Laputa

You would think that the Japanese would know how to name their cars!
New, Mazda Laputa

History Lessons

via Brad DeLong, a short paragraph on the fighting abilities of the Iraqi's Guard

Dawkins

From The Guardian

Third Wave

via santa maradona, the Third Wave, an experiment in fascism

Peace Posters

Telling posters for my favorite cause.
via harrumph

Migration and leaving

The sentiment about this country turning into a police state is all around us now

In a nation of immigrants, we all have ancestors who decided it was time to go. Around the world, people make the decision every day, packing a few belongings onto a cart and walking away from the action, as is happening now in Kurdistan and Baghdad. What happens when it's our turn? Much has changed already; how much more will have to change before it becomes time for me to sell the house? Sew gold coins into the hem of my jacket as I gather the loved ones around me one last time? It's not here yet, but is the hour approaching when, once again, we might decide to bid farewell to yet another homeland?

This or That

Enough ranting and rendering of tunics. This-or-That for today, before I go to bed.

1. Poetry or prose? Prose
2. Funky modern art or the older, "classic" variety? Funky classic
3. Sculptures or paintings? Sculptures
4. Theatre: exuberant musical or serious drama? Drama, and modern, please.
5. Ballet or modern dance? Ballet.
6. Movies: major studio or indie? Indie.
7. Authors: Shakespeare or Dr. Seuss? Shakespeare.
8. TV: PBS or A&E? PBS
9. Music: Beethoven or Beatles? Beethoven
10. Thought-provoking question of the week: You are a contributing member of your favorite art museum, and visit on a regular basis. They announce a new, temporary special exhibit by an artist surrounded by controversy...this person's work and/or political views offend you. Do you stop supporting the museum, or just stay away during the time the exhibit is there? Might go, just to test my boundaries.

Filtered

It has finally happened. I am being filtered out of the place where I work.
Expected incresaed productivity.

email as community footprint

Using email as a collaboration tool can now be used as well to identify the hidden social and hierarchical structures within a group, identifying substructures and lines of power and influence.
The full article is here in the Los Alamos eprint archives on complexity.

Oil is well that ends well

Iraq as an oil producing country, just behind Saudi Arabia

"When these huge fields are developed, there will be a secure new supply of oil for the world," said Muhammad-Ali Zainy, an Iraqi oil official who fled the country in 1982. . An agenda of critical postwar issues, until now hypothetical, is suddenly immediate and real.

Nader voices

Ralph Nader goes beyond qualifying Bush as a dictator:

...a messianic militaristic determination turned by a closed mind, facilitated by a cowering Congress and opposition Democrat Party and undeterred by a `probing' press.

Una de Benedetti

Benedetti, always relevant:

SER Y ESTAR

Oh marine
oh boy
una de tus dificultades consiste en que no sabes
distinguir el ser del estar
para ti todo es to be
así que probemos a aclarar las cosas

por ejemplo
una mujer es buena
cuando entona desafinadamente los salmos
y cada dos años cambia el refrigerador
y envía mensualmente su perro al analista
y sólo enfrenta el sexo los sábados de noche

en cambio una mujer está buena
cuando la miras y pones los perplejos ojos en blanco
y la imaginas y la imaginas y la imaginas
y hasta crees que tomando un martini te vendrá el coraje
pero ni así

por ejemplo
un hombre es listo
cuando obtiene millones por teléfono
y evade la conciencia y los impuestos
y abre una buena póliza de seguros
a cobrar cuando llegue a sus setenta
y sea el momento de viajar en excursión a capri y a parís
y consiga violar a la gioconda en pleno louvre
con la vertiginosa polaroid

en cambio
un hombre está listo
cuando ustedes
oh marine
oh boy
aparecen en el horizonte
para inyectarle democracia.

Disgusting pics

Al Jazeera is showing pictures of casualties of war. I am not linking to those. If you want them, go to blogdex and do a search.
But I do acknowledge their existence, because it is necessary to remember that this is about people dying and suffering. We stand in the brink of our own civility, if we chose to forget why war is a last option.
UPDATE: Check Al JAzeera page in English, you ghouls. The pictures of the war, that ones that made the rounds, can actually be found at Amazon. So there.

But the real horrifying pictures, those that portray the painful monster that is war, can be found at shwa.

War is ugly

This image, via Kari, showing what the war is really like

Coalition impressions

A little primer on newspeak from AKMA

“Shock and awe” instead of “bombing the living (?!) daylights out of people”
“Coalition of the Willing” instead of “hypothetical list of nations whom the Bush administration has bribed or coerced to allow their names to be added to a secret list of supposed supporters”
“Target Opportunity” instead of “chance to kill Saddam Hussein himself, or at least his chief lieutenants”

Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Galeano wonders about this particular war/ se pregunta por la guerra.

Estados Unidos ha anunciado una larga ocupación militar, después de la victoria. Sus generales se harán cargo de establecer la democracia en Irak. ¿Será una democracia igual a la que regalaron a Haití, la República Dominicana o Nicaragua? Ocuparon Haití durante diecinueve años y fundaron un poder militar que desembocó en la dictadura de Duvalier. Ocuparon la Dominicana durante nueve años y fundaron la dictadura de Trujillo. Ocuparon Nicaragua durante veintiún años y fundaron la dictadura de la familia Somoza.

Al-Jazeera

via Madonna and Jaljeera from 3.23.2003, a link to an Al-Jazeera live feed.
Interesting to notice, they use SM Media Player.

Human Rights and the coalition of the right

Just in cue, via wood's lot a link to a compilation of the Coalition's record regarding human rights. They kill, torture and maim their own people! But they do not have oil. Bummer.

Coalition of the guilty

The BBC gives a partial list of the countries that are playing to USA's drum in this war.

Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan.
Additions: Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Kuwait, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Palau, Portugal, Rwanda, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Uganda

Platypus platitudes

I was so happy to find tha Platypus thing, a place with all the credentials and bigwigs and smiles and bells and whistles - That is, until a certain person confessed being the "creator", spoofing the rabid cow and achieving critical mass in less than a week.
Meanwhile, we back in business.

Politics and Business

Brought to you by Monsanto.

history repeats

from Thom Hartmann, via Wacky Neighbor, a little info on our current president and its ideological predecessor:

"You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history," he proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. "This fire," he said, his voice trembling with emotion, "is the beginning." He used the occasion - "a sign from God," he called it - to declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation for their evil deeds in their religion.

And on annexing Austria:

Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.

Lt. Col. Tim Collins

And yet there is honour

“We go to liberate, not to conquer. We will not fly our flags in their country. We are entering Iraq to free a people and the only flag that will be flown in that ancient land is their own. Show respect for them.

I am antiwar

via Maru via Smirking Chimp from American Reporter, excerpts from this article by Randolph T. Holhut

I will not keep quiet as I watch the land that I love turn into a rogue nation.
I will not keep quiet as I watch scheming men profit economically and politically from blood shed by others.
I will not keep quiet as I watch as nearly six decades of international law and institutions are crushed in an effort to bring a Pax Americana to the world.
I will not keep quiet as I watch my government manipulate the fears of the citizenry to grab more power for itself.
I will not keep quiet as we wage a war that is - by any objective standard - unjust, immoral, illegal and just plain stupid.
And I will not allow anyone to attempt to silence me, for I and others who are opposed to this unjust, immoral, illegal and stupid war still have the right to dissent and the obligation to speak up when our nation is doing something that is terribly, terribly wrong.
Dissent is the essence of democracy. The suppression of dissent is the essence of tyranny. Those who wish to shut up those who oppose this war do democracy a disservice.

Insane Spending

Volokh is crazy! It is OK to bomb civilians and to waste billions on dollars on an illegal, unnecesary and cruel campaign, but it is not OK to protest against that war?

"A peaceful, lawful protest shouldn't take any money out of social service programs. Getting yourself arrested is a theft from hungry children, homeless people, and mental illness treatment."

War Friday Five

I am not in the mood to answer inane questions about perfect worlds, yet I want to dispel these humors about me. So sue me if it is not Friday, but here are somethings.
1. If you had the chance to meet someone you've never met, from the past or present, who would it be? The fuckwad that gave George W H Bush (the older) the faulty condom. Oh, wait. It was Cheney, while on internship.
2. If you had to live in a different century, past or future, which would it be? I would like to live in the 21st century of our dreams, where countries lived in harmony, where basic rights were respected, where wars were a painful memory but nothing else. I find myself living in 1950, all of a sudden, and the dream is that of Philip K. Dick
3. If you had to move anywhere else on Earth, where would it be? San Francisco. Love their protests, while not effecting any change at all. Oh, you mean Planet Earth? Is there something else beyond the USA and its interests? Oh, I don't know. Some country full of natural resources, so as to elicit the curiosity of the current government, and benefit from the increased tourism brought over by thousands of young, eager, anxious and moneyed Misguided Children.
4. If you had to be a fictional character, who would it be? The compassionate, wise and respectful President Bush. Failing that, the tooth fairy.
5. If you had to live with having someone else's face as your own for the rest of your life, whose would it be?Let's see: Saddam's face would mean to be stopped at all the airports of the world, half by security people, half by fanatic devotees. Same for Bin Laden. Bush's face would mean I would never be able to go out of my house unless I had a Secret Service detachment, and forget about going top the Zoo - although I would get discounts and Exxon and the local bar. Gore would mean going home after the first round, not an option. What 'bout Clintons's face - I wouldn't have to worry anything, and enjoy quite a popularity. Dwight Eisenhower, after reading Anne's notes.

Al Gore? Perhaps

This comes handy, as an answer for MeetSam.

Approach of War Reveals an Alienation in California

. "I was wondering if I would feel more comfortable if it were Bill Clinton and Al Gore saying we needed to do this now, and I think I would," said Felicia Marcus, who was the regional administrator in California for the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the Clinton administration.

Self-ironic

via Cogito, this little piece by Michael Ledeen is so ironic, I can't even begin to describe the sarcastic nature of it:

So, in a single stroke, we have demonstrated the rightness of our cause and the wisdom of President Bush.

Salam Pax - Peace

Interesting article about Where is Raed, in Weblog Central.
What do you mean, old news!
Update: Salam has stopped updating, and Kevin Sites was ordered down. The latter was expected, the former is sad.

Just because

from Milton Glaser

Army in town

go to Where is Raed ?, which is a site of an architect living ion Baghdad.

he also says that near the main roads all the yet unfinished houses have been taken by party or army people.

Change one evil for other

Bea says

Ha ha ha! Camilo, it must be really frustrating for you, getting out of Colombia in the search for a better life (a safer one), and having to go through all this madness in the one country we all thought was the example of freedom and justice.

No War Buttons

via Ben, this antiwar button.
We all feel heavy today.

Surrender already

Surrendering already? from The Times, a report on the Iraq Army

"We are seeing Iraqis trying to come across the border, saying they want to surrender, but we are having to turn them back and telling them that they must wait until the war begins," said an intelligence officer.

Bill of Rights

Missing Bill of Rights copy recovered.
In other news, Ashcroft went into hiding.

Gore to Apple

Al Gore to be part of Apple's Board of Directors. To bad he ought to be sitting somewhere else, where a much level head is needed quite urgently.

Civil rights?

And I thought I had missed on all the fun! In case of a Red alert we will all be confined to our homes. Domiciliary arrest.
The laaaand oof theee freeeee (with nice background music)

George Orwell

George Orwell on why he writes:

All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention.

Immature Punditry

glen reynolds desires special effects:

I'm watching the CNN and Fox commentators, who have fixed cameras in Baghdad and who seem deeply disappointed that they aren't showing any explosions.

Byrd again

Senator Byrd speaks again,

"Today I weep for my country," said West Virginia Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd. "No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper. ... Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned.

Translation

Doublespeak has left us with confusing reports, so here are the simple sad explanations:

"In his approximately five-minute Oval Office address to the nation, the president cautioned that the war "could be longer ... than some predict."

Bush said the first strikes were against "selected targets of military importance."

The president added that the Iraqi leader has "no regard for convention of war or rules of morality." Bush said Saddam "has attempted to use innocent, men women children" as shields.

Raining fire

The war has officially started: Salam Pax posts

air raid sirens in baghdad but the only sounds you can here are the anti-aircraft machine guns. will go now.

"The opening stages of the disarmament of the Iraqi regime have begun,"...Fleischer spoke as anti-aircraft fire and explosions were heard across Baghdad after air raid sirens went off at the capital at dawn.

Bush the hero?

Poor Doc! Has he became so alienated from the real world living in posh Santa Barbara that he equates Bush with the hero?
I will rather much understand this as the warring general of the Greeks, the one so brilliantly described by Hanson: the warrior that comes home after a brilliant campaign, followed by its citizens-soldiers, and is immediately judged by his peers and condemned - war is no easy thing, and the winners are often the ones carrying the heavy moral burden, even if they were justified in their actions.
Exception made, of course, by the fact that Bush is neither directing the campaign, nor is justified in it, and lacks the moral support for it. Trifles, it may seem.
Why this intent on justifying this attack? We all have seen the parade of companies with strong ties to Cheney, getting ready for a clean-up and reconstruction of Iraq. We all have seen the tremendous damage that Bush assertions and attitude had caused the international community, where it is evident that the UN has become irrelevant – not by their stance on peace, but by the defiance with which the US has regarded its resolutions and authority.
Fifty years of political work, building trust despite the obvious strength, avoiding compromising easy solutions and involving other countries as partners, in order to achieve a political scenario in which everyone has a voice and direct participation. Fifty years of tradition, of easily defended values and moral superiority, thrown down the drain.
Mr. Bush seems to think that silencing the press during this attack would guarantee his political survival – he forgets that, after all is said and done, the witnesses that remain alive will come back to haunt him and his associates. An then, what about the political will of the USA's allies?

9/11 as an excuse for Iraq?

The fact that Bush is using 9/11 as an exccuse for his invasion plans is another insult to America, its institutions and its people.

WASHINGTON - U.S. President George Bush on Wednesday sent Congress a formal justification for invading Iraq, citing the attacks on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001.

Cassandra

Kristoff goes helenic on us,

We Americans are the Greeks of our day, and as we now go to war, we should appreciate not only the beauty of the tale, but also the warnings within it.

Wrong Support

Colombia is among the 30 countries supporting the USA war against Iraq.
Colombian president Uribe is justifying his own internal war, of course, and trying to get "friends in high places" for the moment he has to bomb innocent civilians. Nothing new there.

Lest I forget

Went to the doctor last Monday. Nothing much, nicely suggested me to lose 30 pounds, to start sleeping minimum seven hours a day and to not get bored at my job.

I suppose I will start running - AGAIN!
What was I talking about?

Reasons to invade

España not happy

The most important newspaper in Spain, El Pais, has this in its editorial

George Bush ha dado carpetazo a la diplomacia y abierto el camino de la guerra, en clara violación de la legalidad internacional.

Successful lawyer

The Texas Bar has the text of this letter from father to son, as the latter starts on his professional path: How to Succeed as a Lawyer. In this time, these are particularly appropriate:

4. Remember, in the practice of law under a democratic form of government there are no secrets.
5. Remember, the best way to disarm your enemies is to do what is just under the circumstances.
6. Remember, no people have ever developed a better method for settling disputes among men, than our judicial system.
10. Remember, the end does not justify the means.
11. Remember, to be a good lawyer you must first be a good man.
12. Remember, don’t ever put your interest in the fee ahead of your interest in the case.
16. Remember, there is no sure way to bind men together and keep them bound by any written instrument.

Glastris shoots

Paul Glastris ellaborates on many of the most costly political consequences of mr bush shooting rampage

Even as his strategy was failing, the president recently remarked that "we really don't need anybody's permission" to invade Iraq. In a strict sense, of course, that's true. But his words suggest that he still doesn't fully understand—as virtually all his recent predecessors did—the value of formal alliances in fighting wars and in keeping the peace afterward. America should have been able to invade Iraq with an alliance, or at least a broad coalition. Instead, all we have is a gang.

Krugman

Pauk Krugman, Things to Come

So now the administration knows that it can make unsubstantiated claims, without paying a price when those claims prove false, and that saber rattling gains it votes and silences opposition. Maybe it will honorably refuse to act on this dangerous knowledge. But I can't help worrying that in domestic politics, as in foreign policy, this war will turn out to have been the shape of things to come.

Cause I feel like it

Some Rants & Raves from old times

Are those of us living in the Third World part of that much-hoped-for global village, or will it be, like many other concepts that pass near us, underdeveloped countries and besieged people, caught between the needs and the discoveries, but much prevented by in our own impossible ways from moving toward the advance we need?

Nothing changes.

Posted by Camilo on March 18, 2003 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Costs of war

We don’t have an idea yet of the costs of this war, whether $90 billion or $1.2 trillion. Most likely, a figure in between, although I consider that once you take into account further expenses needed to appease post-war enemies, the cost might be closer to the high estimate.

Yale professor -- and war opponent -- William D. Nordhaus, in a study published late last year, said a short and successful war for the United States and its allies could have a positive impact on oil markets and the economy that would shave about $57 billion from the total costs of the war.
On the other hand, in his worst-case scenario, assuming the war and post-war period go very badly, then the shocks to the oil market and economy could add a staggering $1.2 trillion to the total bill.

She doesn't get it!

Found this little piece at CNet, lightly presenting blogs :

But that brings up another important distinction between blogs and the traditional news: blogs don't offer a guarantee of accuracy (other than peer review) or impartiality. If you get information from blogs, you run the risk of gathering misinformation, and bias is assumed.

Bush toppling regimes

It would look as if Bush had given Blair 48 hours to leave power. Three ministers have quit over the war with Iraq. Bush, the regime-changer.

This or that

Because I am not in the mood to celebrate war, but rather to become one with my inner this-or-that.
Thanks to Christine and Pete.
1. Cold frosty ski slopes or warm sandy beach? Always love the cold wet slopes. Paramo, for the uninitiated.
2. Chevy or Ford?With gas prices going to $5 a gallon, I would say bike. Lance Armstrong!
3. Mac or PC? Computers are commodities, like saying coffee or oranges. And the best open source commodity of all, Linux, gives value by simplifying the supply chain and eliminating artificial structures. Linux. The rest is just hardware (as in pipes and screws and nuts).
4. Dial-up or high speed internet access? Broadband, baby.
5. Small *family-only* wedding or large 200+ guest wedding? With whom?
6. Would you rather be the bridesmaid or the bride? (if you are a guy, substitute best man or groom) Ugh.
7. AC/DC or ABBA? ABBA – but just because it is tackier. Although nobody thinks you are gay if they find you singing ACDC at the top of your lungs, whereas with ABBA, .
8. Roses or daisies? Any Colombian flowers. Astromelia.
9. Trashy romance novels or classic literature? Classic Literature!
10. NEW! Thought-provoking question of the week...If you had to choose one...would you rather be blind or deaf? Why? You mean, if we had to choose between being Bush or Republican? Due to recent events in my life, I would rather have all the use of my brain, even though my senses were to become somehow diminished. We all can use our senses to recreate the world around us, no matter how impaired, and with the help of a fully functioning brain we may even be able to excel in many fields. Our brain is where everything that defines us as individuals reside, the center of our interaction and all our concepts and ideas. I need I/O and perfect brain!

Let's go to war

Once embarked, the whole atttiude of the American public will be of support, which is one great difference to that sentiment in Vietnam - that is, as long as there are tangible "positive" reports to come from the major media outlets. Which will be, given the way the media and the Pentagon are helping each other maintain their ratings.
I love this: politics by ratings: "What do you think of the war?" "Do you think the war is beneficial?" "If you were given $500, would you support the war? What about $1000?"
Meanwhile, Bush has publicly expressed his intentions to go alone in an aggressive, highly illegal war. Just for the sake of it.
I know Spanish people already leaving the US.

we the blind

Referring to the teenager recently liberated, briggs
says

When we accept in our open and democratic society the normalcy of veiled women, women hidden from public view, prevented from speaking, not allowed to have faces, or voices, or--let me be perfectly clear--not allowed to exist in their own right, then we have abandoned them. If we do not see the veiled girls and women we have lost them even as they walk among us.

New Journalism

Scott Murray, English reporter for The Guardian, decides to express his feelings regarding his work, in a rather obvious manner:

...I'LL BE VERY SURPRISED IF ANY OF MY BOSSES WILL READ ANY OF THIS LET'S BE HONEST THEY WON'T ALTHOUGH ON THE OTHER HAND THAT'S PROBABLY JUST AS WELL HEY I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH TYPING THINGS LIKE THIS KIqL!UYS^%$DFLI ZSDSAFC SFE4O92 )(^(*^o"$ bBLKU E875O3 96*&^%o*"$ogb ...

Filesharing allows porno and water is wet

Big news. CNN reports that file sharin may allow trading of porno, as explained by experts last Thursday.
This is the same government that wants to go to war? The one that comes up with Code Orange? I feel safer already.

Fun time!

Go to Jason's, the happy soul in charge of all things blog, who has devised a new pinger for Posted by Camilo on March 16, 2003 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)