Posted in Uncategorized on April 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Kurt Vonnegut passes away at 84.
“Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’ ‘Cat’s Cradle’ and ‘God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater’ caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died Wednesday night in Manhattan. He was 84.”
From a 2003 interview with In These [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 11, 2007 | No Comments »
This is amazing, source, and language.
ExcerptWhere Have All the Leaders Gone?
By Lee Iacocca with Catherine Whitney
I Had Enough?
Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship [...]
Posted in Gardenworld positive on April 11, 2007 | No Comments »
It is a very good idea for the Holocaust museum to extend its reach to other genocides.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has joined with Google in an unprecedented online mapping initiative. Crisis in Darfur enables more than 200 million Google Earth users worldwide to visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfolding in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 11, 2007 | No Comments »
The point is the isolation of this government, and its lack of interst in what if’s. This interview is worth reading.
This seems to be something that Bush has in common with Nixon: the White House ignoring everyone and seeking to become a government unto itself.One of the things this administration has shown us is how [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 8, 2007 | No Comments »
easter
Easter is a day of seasonal honoring, deep in all cultures. How does it intersect with global warming and earlier spring? Our rituals are being made more ambiguous.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2007 | No Comments »
A lot of folks are not acknowledging the serious structural damage to major institutions like NATO from America’s crusade in Iraq and the festering problems in Afghanistan. Ullman and General Jones suggest that there is serious structual fatigue that can’t bear the weight of further bad decisions and incompetence.
Source: The Washington Note
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2007 | No Comments »
The last sentence is full of implications. The model of how that happens, and what could reverse it, is a key strategic piece.
Very grim. We need to get a handle on this, but I don’t have confidence that we will until something systemically horrible happens — like the loss of all polar bears, or bumblebees, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Gary Kasparov on chess and modern russia
“weaken the power of the presidne tn and have new powers for parliament, shift money back to the regions… or we lose the country..” he is entering politics seriously.
Sound familiar? This may be a large systtem phenomena.
from bbc’ nightwaves today www.bbc.co.uk/radio3
How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 5, 2007 | No Comments »
The world including in the US, has come to a much more differentiated perpective on Iran, what it is, its inernal cnflicts, how interesting it is, and what a good chess player. The result has been to humanize and de-demonize Iran, making it tractable, and more normal a place. A US attack now wuld seem [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Corporate profits said at ‘all-time high’Profitability at historic levels as four in ten workers live ‘paycheck to paycheck.’
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Rich countries bent on power and profit have mercilessly “plundered and sacked” Africa and other poor regions and exported to them the “cynicism of a world without God,” Pope Benedict writes in [...]
