Links With Your Coffee - Friday
- Scooter Libby In Hell / What do Dick Cheney, Paris Hilton, "The Sopranos" and colon spasms have in common? Find out here
- Bush "Anti-Protester" Manual Discovered
A lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union has uncovered a manual from the Bush Administration detailing its tactics for suppressing protests at presidential appearances. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of two people from Colorado who were forcibly removed from a presidential "Town Hall Meeting" because their car had a bumper sticker that said, "No more blood for oil."
(tip to Jim) - Walt Handelsman: Loverly
You don't want to miss this (flash video) - Moral relativism and A Mighty Heart
This is a political version of a famous paradox formulated by Bertrand Russell in 1901, which shook the logical foundations of mathematics. Any person who claims to be tolerant naturally defines himself in opposition to those who are intolerant. But that makes him intolerant of certain people--which invalidates his claim to be tolerant.
- THE ABSOLUTE ‘POWER’ TO PARDON/COMMUTE IS NOT AN ABSOLUTE SHIELD AGAINST CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Memo to Patrick Fitzgerald: You have previously expressed outrage over Mr. Libby “throwing sand in your face.” Now that Messrs. Bush and Cheney have thrown the entire Sahara Desert into your face, it is time to take a closer look at the “commute that doesn’t compute.”
- The language of exile
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka talks about his writing and how the political situation in his homeland, Nigeria, impacts his work.
You’ve written that there’s an epidemic of religion in Nigeria and in the world. Do you think that the world would be better off without religion?
I think so. It would be less beautiful perhaps, because some religions have created really beautiful architecture, incredible music, some of the most moving dances stem from religion — this idea or acknowledgement of something that stems from something larger than yourself. But I have a feeling that the world would have found a way of substituting it, or creating the same thing from a different source of inspiration. - Unorthodox Atheist
- Editorial: Say no to drug ads
There is nothing wrong with giving consumers access to information - generally the more the better. The problem with DTCA is that the information is at best incomplete, at worst biased. There is a better way to provide people with data about medicines: the US Consumers Union, for example, produces free drugs guides in partnership with independent researchers who have no financial interest in the drugs they may recommend. It seems the US Congress has thrown away the chance to follow this enlightened approach. The European Commission should embrace it. . .
There is nothing wrong with giving consumers access to information - generally the more the better. The problem with DTCA is that the information is at best incomplete, at worst biased. There is a better way to provide people with data about medicines: the US Consumers Union, for example, produces free drugs guides in partnership with independent researchers who have no financial interest in the drugs they may recommend. It seems the US Congress has thrown away the chance to follow this enlightened approach. The European Commission should embrace it.
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woo-hoo! you probably know by now i'm a sucker for great writing and the moorford article certainly fits the bill. if i didnt' already agree with him (which i do, for the most part) id be converted merely on linguistic brilliance. thanks, lol a few times. in a sick, pessimistic kind of way.
I know where Bush, Shrubya, got that silver spoon he snorted flake from from. But where DID he get that "accent"? Westerns/Reruns from late night when he was growing sideways? The Midland Mediocre-cracy?, okay, Perot country...
Politics/Paradoxes,
Those democracies who voted for, for examples, Hitler, Islamists Algerien, Christian "valyas", sacred texts/"Constitutions", the political set of all barber-poles who endlessly are raised by their Ayn bootstraps by only/all those who don't raise themselves by their Rand bootstraps, scraps for the serfs who actually do the work, is another, Reaganism, Utopium in motuum perpetuum.
Ute opium of the lesser "masses" closer to home.
The paradoxes just keep piling up, Netherlands and Danemark are living the salientest paradox, Prince Charles's Londonistan too. France. And America, a red(-hot) carpet laid out for the Barbarians, Immigranting amnesty after am-nests of... ...social insects, Africanized bees?, oh,
queen child-machines.
A more benign paradox is the waxing/waning attachment of Buddhists to... non-attachment. Like the phases of the Moon. If only that were our main conundrum.
Alas.
Allah's?
Between the Great Imperialists (G.I.s) and the Islamists/ Hyper-hyper-Imperialists-to-end-all-Imperialists who aspire to once again put the World's Greatest Empires to perpetual shame, we are set to be ground between Scyllas and Charybdises on all sides. We're Hamburger, pulverized to "pow(d)er"-kegs. Nuke-Radiation fodder.
I must remain
a)unconvinced by the Animal Right (PETA smashing Science, e.g.).
b)100% convinced of what Darwin was onto, humans ARE animals. Tolerance, Freedom, Democracy, as hollow, paradoxical, empty, as...
"God",
Delusions.
Achchchchch...
i've heard dubya, and i've heard "the shrub". did oea make this conflation up hisself? if so, another hats off. the rest, well, i'm mostly lost. but i, for one, plan on using "shrubya" at any and all oppurtunities in the future.
We're doomed JBrwocky, our species, our genus, has boundaries in space AND time. We're close to the edge.
Where is the Kubrickian monolith?
It's Presence is sorely needed.
I strain to hear the chord of Nature, theme music to 2001 Space Oddyssey (who wrote that anyway, John Williams?).
It's time.
It's 6 yrs late.
Where is the Overman? Still in the Mothership?
Don't tell me, September Song/Gnosis Urb/Met peZ, New York, concealed in plain sight, double monolithoi. Oy. Double Oy. We're in RubbleShrubble Oy.
Parano(rmal)ia. Only it's real.
What simple-minded garbage. Are we to believe that without magick we must be isolated amoral hedonists?
you mean i might not have a chance to use "shrubya"? damn. i don't know, man, sounds like you're praying for a messiah and preaching the end of the world. cheer up- i'm not expecting either anytime soon.
I always thought the universe was larger than myself.
God, unlike the universe gets smaller and less awe inspiring the more you learn about god. But the more you learn about the physical universe, the larger, more mysterious, awe inspiring it becomes.
Unlike god, you can't pretend to manipulate it, can't cut it down to your size. But, it is some scary shite being so incredibly, unimagenably tiny and unimportant in the context of the larger reality.
Human invented 'gods' are rather small and meaningless in the universe.
Mickleby, you cut out the last sentence of that quote which alters its effect. You argue against something that wasn't said.
What's with that? Just curious as to why you edited the quote that way.
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