Yesterday’s New York Times ran this piece on the failure of US reconstuction projects in Iraq. For a more detailed account of our occupation of Iraq, read Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone.
Archive for April, 2007
Between Iraq and a Hard Place
Posted in The War of Error, What I'm reading on April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Fred Phelps – Queers’ Best Friend
Posted in Miscellany on April 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This guy is so horrid, so repugnant and so visible (he plans to crash services at Virginia Tech) that he forces every day Main Street folks to re-examine their assumptions. The really nice surprise is that, more often than not, people prefer tolerance to hatred. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
More on the cultural imperialism of the Internet
Posted in Information Science on April 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In his slender, elegantly reasoned volume, Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge: A View from Europe, Jean Noël Jenneney points to the danger of Google’s Library project and prods Europeans to act. Google’s random digitization of books from a few partner libraries, and its reliance on works written mostly in English, the project extends the [...]
The Tragedy at Virginia Tech
Posted in Miscellany on April 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Words can not express my sorrow over the lost of lives. We live in a violent society, there are many troubled people, and guns are far to easy to come by. Personally, guns scare the shit out of me. What I don’t understand it the power of the gun lobby. Why can’t we control guns in [...]
Duke it out, or walk away?
Posted in Miscellany on April 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The rape charges have been dropped again the three Duke University lacrosse players. CNN reports that they’re considering filing law suits. Please, please, please keep in mind that no matter what the accuser said, or what the prosecutor or the university did, this whole ugly mess started with rich, white college boys hiring women for lap dances. Can you imagine what [...]
Baby as…
Posted in Miscellany on April 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
bundle of joy
little angle
chip off the old block
pride and joy
tax deduction
lottery ticket!
Putting the Fairy in the Fairy Tale Wedding
Posted in Gay Parenting/Gay Marriage on April 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Walt Disney Company announced last Thursday that it would now allow same sex couples to buy Fairy Tale Wedding Packages. Speechless. I am rendered speechless by the fact that 1) it is possible have one’s nuptials in Disney World and 2) Mickey, Donald & Pluto can now be written into the gay agenda. (Of course, this wouldn’t [...]
Iranian humor
Posted in The War of Error on April 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sure they released the hostages, but first they made them wear funny clothes.
Of Fags & Ferrets
Posted in Gay Parenting/Gay Marriage on April 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There is hope! Gay marriage is more popular than ferrets! A recent poll commissioned by the San Diego based organization Ferrets Anonymous found that people are more likely to support gay marriage then legalizing ferrets as pets. Gay marriage is only possible in one state; ferrets are legal in all but two (Hawaii and California). Pity [...]
