pandemic flu: phase 3
May 19, 2008Just a friendly reminder. We are now in “pandemic alert” from the World Health Organization.
Archive for the ‘geo/pol’ Category
Tom Hanks on Obama
May 5, 2008
“I want the president of my country to embody the America I have been waiting for.”
ron paul and barack obama
February 27, 2008You know that old adage, “hope for the best, prepare for the worst”?
That’s a major difference between the philosophies of Paul and Obama. Paul hopes for the best, inspires us to rise to the challenge of living by our own laws. And so does Obama. But Obama has no blind hope in the ultimate benevolence of the Invisible Hand.
Obama is hoping, yes. But he’s also preparing.
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squirrel is out
February 7, 2008
secrecy and secret secrecy
January 2, 2008Well, I’ll be. Lookie this:
CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush on Monday signed a bill aimed at giving the public and the media greater access to information about what the government is doing.
The new law toughens the Freedom of Information Act, the first such makeover to the signature public-access law in a decade. It amounts to a congressional pushback against the Bush administration’s movement to greater secrecy since the terrorist attacks of 2001.
josh casteel
November 14, 2007
“This is a video of Joshua Casteel, who served eight years in the US Army, including seven months as an interrogator and Arabic linguist in the Iraq War. Joshua was honorably discharged as a conscientious objector and he is now a dual-MFA candidate at the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program. On June 19th 2006, Joshua appeared alongside Vaclav Havel, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, and Jeremy Irons on the stage of the Royal Court Theatre for Human Rights Watch’s Cries From the Heart performing a monologue from his play Returns, which premiered at Iowa February 15th-18th 2007 and then at Columbia College in Chicago February 19th 2007. January 1st 2008 The Essay Press will release a book of Joshua’s war letters entitled Letters From Abu Ghraib; he is also writing a memoir entitled No Graven Image.” (via McCarter Theatre).
