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Left-wing highlighting of the most relevant recent news stories.Saturday, December 28, 2002
"Partisan politics" my eye! The Republicans are screwing people. Simple as that.
Friday, December 27, 2002
Letter to the New York Times:
Nicholas Kristof calls for a worldwide campaign to stigmatize the use of terrorism. Great. But he also notes that the US war against Iraq will 'likely terrorize civilians'. The solution, the only one with real moral clarity, is to stigmatize all forms of warfare, i.e. the use of violence for political ends. First up should be aerial bombing, which has done far more to kill civilians and military personnel over the last fifty years than terrorism. All states and political actors, the US included, must learn that killing people as means to achieve political objectives will be firmly repudiated by the global community.
Steven Sherman
I kind of hope it's true. It would be really cool for a cult that believes that aliens are responsible for the human race to have engineered a major technological breakthrough.
Wednesday, December 25, 2002
Thanks to the internet, even on Christmas, bargains beckon. Like this rug at Chiasso.... I could really use a rug. And shag is hip. Must. Resist. Temptation.
Tuesday, December 24, 2002
Bush to the very wealthy: Merry Christmas!
Making kids walk to school and back with eighty pounds of mediocre textbooks on their backs--only in America!
Sunday, December 22, 2002
The Times actually covers the movement of city government's to constrain the Feds attacks on civil liberties (in the name of the war on terror). Of course, they dismissively refer to "liberal bastions like Boulder, Colo.; Santa Fe, N.M.; Cambridge, Mass.; and Berkeley, Calif., where opposition to government policy is a tradition", but still...
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