Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2007 | No Comments »
A recent poll released by WorldPublicOpinion.org reveals that Iranians are both “very concerned about the danger of terrorism, reject attacks against civilians overwhelmingly, and share strongly negative views of Osama bin Laden.” The findings suggest a basis for diplomacy with Iran.
But the results do sound one important note of caution for the Bush administration. [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Was it right to call this an illness, someone asked. Insel thought we were still stuck in an era of thinking about depression as a personal weakness or as something requiring blame. Research taking us towards looking at chemical problems. But brain imaging meant we could now go way beyond chemical imbalance - he described [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2007 | No Comments »
My thinking is that the increased troop levels in Iraq, an increase that won’t “work”, has a different purpose: it is to provide a margin of control that will be important when (supposition alert) the US attackes iran. Then it is understandable.
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Posted in Uncategorized on January 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Very interesting. I especially like the analysis of full papers.
Link to News at wikileaks
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Posted in daily notes on January 22, 2007 | No Comments »
There is not much here on details of how it works - tha is, what issues were discussed and in what language. But it is a small window.
Surprising as it might seem in view of the Democrats’ public rhetoric, business groups are getting their telephone calls returned. And they’re getting plenty of face time with [...]
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Posted in daily notes on January 21, 2007 | No Comments »
“The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.”
– Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree
Source: Daily Kos: [...]
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Posted in daily notes on January 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Tragedy and Justice
Bernard Williams remembered
Martha C. Nussbaum
Source: Martha Nussbaum: Tragedy and Justice Boston Review
Williams made a large demand on behalf of philosophy: that it come to terms with, and contain, the difficulty and complexity of human life. He believed that much philosophy of the past had represented a flight from reality, [...]
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Posted in daily notes on January 21, 2007 | No Comments »
The history of the United States is essentially the history of an idea; the idea that all men are created equal, and its gradual manifestation in actuality with all of its contradictions and hypocrisies.
Source: PopMatters Culture Feature | The Birth of an Idea: Instant Nation
But the article is not about that, but History Channels’ [...]
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Posted in daily notes on January 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Interesting story on the Texas Court bvypassing Supreme Court orders. Trend for the decline of the center and increasing entropy? Or federalism reaserting itself?
Texas Side-StepHave the Supreme Court’s opinions become suggestions in Texas?
By Dahlia Lithwick
Source: Have the Supreme Court’s opinions become suggestions in Texas? - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
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Posted in daily notes on January 21, 2007 | No Comments »
ACLU v. ACLU
Scott Sherman
Source: ACLU v. ACLU The Nation
Scene setting: overdrawn?
It’s a bad time for civil liberties, a time of “extraordinary rendition,” secret deportations, dubious military trials, NSA surveillance, the harassment of librarians and other infringements. The ACLU, founded in 1920, is both a crucial barrier against these threats to our freedom and [...]
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