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This blog is now read by more machines than humans: RSS robots, spam-laying insectopoids, echoes of blog-gathering .edu projects. This essentially is the state of affairs that all human activities wil

Cleaning Up the Nation

Austin Bay:

If Air America were a conservative radio network its corrupt funding trail and cynical abuse of a poverty program would be front page news at the NY Times and full-time mega-scandal at

Rank Materialism

Freedom. I am now the proud new owner of a Gateway 6020GZ laptop, perfect for students and others with limited means. I can now go into a Starbucks or a Barnes & Noble and look like I'm doing some

Fallujah Fonda

Uh-oh. From the Telegraph comes this exciting news:

Jane Fonda is returning to anti-war activism and embarking on a cross-country tour to call for an end to US military operations in Iraq.

Acros

John Pilger: Partner in Terrorism

In an outrageous piece of terrorist propaganda appearing on the cover of today's New Statesman, John Pilger puts the blame for the 7/7 London attacks not on the terrorists, but rather on Tony Blair:

Spartac.us

Russian Theater Hostage Crisis Ends

That's good news. An interesting line from Reuters: "In freezing rain, the hostages were ferried quickly out of the theater, many to hospital and away from waiting journalists." Poor Reuters.

A som

Headlines

The news headlines from two news agencies that are fed into my Yahoo! home page read a lot like a multi-front WWIII.

Top Stories from Reuters Oct 24 9:43pm ET
Rifle in Sniper Suspects' Car Is Murd

My Contribution to the War Effort

Eric Raymond, master of his domain over at Armed and Dangerous, recently asked for web geeks out there to come up with a graphical button to promote the still evolving Anti-Idiotarian Manifesto. I ste

The Conversation

This dialogue between Abu Al-Jihadi, an influential Islamic activist of indeterminate nationality with thousands of followers, and Fay West, a well-respected American intellectual who holds some chair

The French Vote

A piece by Demosthenes rebuts the observation made by some that French opposition (so far) to attacking Iraq is based on French oil interests in that country. Demosthenes says about the claim:

That

Prez Wins Nobel

That's former President Jimmy Carter. Congratulations to him. The timing of this award is significant however. The Norwegian organization is sending a message to Americans: this is the kind of US pres

Russian Theater Hostage Crisis Ends

That's good news. An interesting line from Reuters: "In freezing rain, the hostages were ferried quickly out of the theater, many to hospital and away from waiting journalists." Poor Reuters.

A somewhat delicate question is the matter of the 67 hostages who died when Russian special forces stormed the theater. To my mind, this is no different from the 9/11 US decision to shoot down hijacked planes before many more people could be killed on the ground. Unfortunately, sacrifices are necessary in wartime. In the Russian case, more than 750 hostages were saved. It's very likely that many more of them would have died had the Russians not acted. The relatively quick victory of the Russians may well discourage, or at least demoralize, Al Qaeda in the short term. You've got to be behind that.

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