Links of interest for February 25th, 2008 through March 28th, 2008:
Why voting is wrong - "For most people, the electoral charade provides a kind of relief valve for angers and frustrations that might otherwise seek a more effectual outlet."
The Reality-Based Community: How fair was that trial? - James Wimberley compares the trial of Jesus with [...]
Links of interest for February 21st, 2008 through February 23rd, 2008:
BBC NEWS | Europe | Guernsey | Sark agrees to switch to democracy - Politicians in the Channel Island of Sark have agreed to end the island’s feudal system of government which has been in place for the past 450 years.
The Difference Between an Illegal [...]
Links of interest for January 24th, 2008 through February 20th, 2008:
WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: My Other Car is a Bright Green City - Our vehicle emissions are a major climate change contributor, but what comes out of the tailpipe is only a fraction of the total impact of [...]
Links of interest for December 7th, 2007 through January 20th, 2008:
George Monbiot: The Turks haven’t learned the British way of denying past atrocities | News | Guardian Unlimited Books - A brief tour of British genocides in India and Kenya. Contrary to popular belief, the British Empire was anything but benign, and in India alone [...]
Links of interest for November 30th, 2007 through December 4th, 2007:
Rad Geek People’s Daily 2007-12-03 – Veterans Against Individual Freedom - The "elaborate and formalized liturgy of theo-nationalist rites surrounding the military colors of the United States" provokes a violent attack on a bar-owner’s freedom of expression. Stop worshiping the damn flag!
The Washington Monthly–The Republican [...]
Links of interest for November 30th, 2007:
The Washington Monthly–The Republican Base - Joe Klein attended a focus group for the Republican debate. "It turns out that the only thing these GOP voters hated more than helping the poor was being told that it’s wrong to torture people."
Brilliant at Breakfast–What constitutes “expressing discontent” - FIrefighters in [...]
Links of interest for November 26th, 2007 through November 29th, 2007:
Balloon Juice - Why is Giuliani still in the race? "The guy can’t govern, his cronies will steal anything that isn’t bolted down, he reads 1984 for leadership ideas and he thinks he’s God."
Paul Craig Roberts: Meet the Only Two Candidates Worse Than Bush and [...]
Links of interest for November 25th, 2007:
Light and Silence - Possible connections between Eastern Orthodoxy and Quakerism.
Wounded-troops tally not even close to reality - The Carpetbagger Report - "…the total number of Americans who may have suffered head injuries in combat maybe total as many as 150,000 —about 10% of the 1.5 million troops [that] [...]
Links of interest for November 16th, 2007 through November 23rd, 2007:
AlterNet: The End of America? Naomi Wolf Thinks It Could Happen - Those who do not know history—especially the history of Europe in the 20s and 30s—may be doomed to repeat it.
AlterNet: Could Smoking Pot Be Good for Teens? - Marijuana-using teens "had better peer [...]
Links of interest for November 3rd, 2007 through November 13th, 2007:
Rad Geek People’s Daily 2007-11-12 – Sin Fronteras - Open borders and amnesty. "Smash international apartheid, now and forever."
Making Light: The war on photography - A Japanese tourist is forcibly removed from an Amtrak train for taking pictures from the window–in the interests of "national [...]
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