15 October 2011
You've Gotta Look Busy
12 September 2011
28 July 2011
Euro-Middle East Relations: an Object Lesson
“The weasel is a cunning and courageous beast with such a lust for killing that he kills for the love of it, even when not hungry. He first sucks victim’s blood, then eats its brains.”
11 May 2011
Europa 1920, Europa 2010
Still Chasing the same straw men - that is, anything that reminds them of figures of authority as they think they understood them to be: military figures, business, and faith. A whole century of evidence, and they’re repeating the same infantile rants: make me free, feed me too, but give us authoritarian order, so long as it’s the type that suits my views.
17 April 2011
Beauty Feeling That There Might be Nothing to Live for
Unplacability in time is a theme often resorted to, as is the co-placement of contradictions: young and decayed, soft and rough. It asks itself when the missiles are coming.
10 April 2011
Compare and Contrast
"All the other large and small nationalities and peoples are destined to perish before long in the revolutionary world storm… these residual fragments of peoples always become fanatical standard-bearers of counter-revolution and remain so until their complete extirpation or loss of their national character… [A general war will] wipe out all these petty hidebound nations, down to their very names. The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a step forward."
- Friedrich Engels, "The Magyar Struggle," Neue Rheinische Zeitung, January 13, 1849
“As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map,”
Elsewhere“There is no doubt that the new wave (of attacks) in Palestine will wipe off this stigma (Israel) from the face of the Islamic world, ...”
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, “The World without Zionism.”
27 January 2011
A Portrait of the Effectiveness of Soft Power
26-JAN-2011:EU to Cairo: respect 'legitimate yearnings' of citizens
27-JAN-2011:CAIRO — Political protests may be rocking Egypt with a new, nonideological force, but President Hosni Mubarak and his allies have not veered from a playbook they have followed through nearly three decades of one-party rule.
As always, the government has responded to the unrest primarily as a security issue, largely ignoring, or dismissing, the core demands of those who have taken to the street.
04 December 2010
It's Probably a Political Statement
Indianapolis Business Journal
...how much damage a comet or asteroid would cause if it hit Earth? ...You can customize your asteroid and pretend it's headed for the Windy City.
Dude, We're So Hosed!