It is despicable, though not surprising, that Obama is trying to block the release of photographs of abuse of prisoners in Iraq. This is not small stuff, this is the rape of minors: abominations, atrocities.
The reaction of liberals like Michael Tomasky, equivocating over an action (suppression of the evidence) that is so transparently wrong, is [...]
The Bush administration was characterised by a curious indifference to inconvenient facts. Not just bare-faced lies, such as Iraq’s fearsome and non-existent arsenal, or the disingenuous obfuscation of scientific evidence to muddy the waters on climate change; they also denied reality to themselves, in a way that elevated incompetence to self-sabotage (de-Baathification, the economy). The [...]
The new Star Trek movie is good, much better than I had anticipated. After the abominable Star Wars prequels, I was sceptical about the recent trend for “rebooting”. But, as with James Bond and Batman, this new movie maintains the spirit of the original series while adding some fresh touches. The casting of the young [...]
There is something seriously wrong-headed about the mushy sentiments expressed in today’s Guardian by Salam Pax, Baghdad blogger and darling of the Western liberal media, regarding the shoe thrown at Bush by Muntazer al-Zaidi. His arguments about the responsibilities of a journalist vis-a-vis the feelings of a private citizen are those of a jobsworth, and [...]
The implosion of the financial sector and its knock-on effect on the economy suggests a revision of the nursery rhyme: for the want of a loan, the jobs were lost; for the want of a job, consumer confidence was lost; for the want of a buyer, the sale was lost… and so on, in a [...]
So Obama got in. In Chomsky’s analysis last month, he likened the Democrats and Republicans to two wings of a single “Business Party”, divided only by minor differences in the implementation of a broad neoliberal consensus, but that those small differences can make an awful lot of difference to people’s lives. I think his analysis [...]
Zoe Williams in the Guardian reports on a Flemish cook who was sacked after choosing to focus on Hitler’s favourite dish (trout in butter sauce, apparently) as part of a series on a cookery programme whose gimmick is to prepare the dishes of famous (or in this case infamous) people:
Anyway, the Belgian programme was cancelled [...]
I try to avoid this topic, as there’s enough on the internet about it already. But I have to say something, after listening with horror to:
- parochial, misguided, trivial, uninformed comments from voters;
- so-called “analysis” from the media that treats the election as a sport;
- sarah palin
ARGHH!!!
Obama would be a pretty right wing candidate in [...]
Just read Madelaine Bunting’s piece on Scandinavian social policy. Without any evidence, she says “it’s not hard to see this conformity can also be stiflingly oppressive”. Is it not hard? The piece relies on a shared knee-jerk Anglo-Saxon reaction based, presumably, on a weighted preference for individualism over social justice. She does not even say [...]
In the flash site I’m working on, I have a TextField in one section and a TextArea (Flash) component in another. I am using the Verdana font. The TextField works perfectly. The TextArea on the other hand, for some reason, renders the font in a weird ugly way.
I suspected it might be something to do [...]
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