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7 August 2007
Into a world of dreams and nightmares
About 4 weeks ago, a writer named Theresa Duncan reportedly killed herself in New York. She had a blog of some acclaim that until her death she updated daily. Her death was not widely reported even by by NY and LA papers and blogs — she’d recently moved from Venice [...]
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24 April 2007
Self Censorship in Modern Merka
I was reading a (quite humorous) email from my uncle that went something like this:
Whatever you two are smoking, please send me two tons as a sales starter package. I think that there is a lot more profit potential in whatever you are smoking than in converting ‘58 Chevies into tri5s. I think [...]
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8 August 2006
Heartbreaking
From a blogger living in Beirut, the sad tale of daily life in a land under attack from a foreign military. Neither political nor overly dramatic, it is, in the end, a heartbreaking story.
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31 July 2006
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“A border is an invitation to Cross.”
-Guillermo Gomez Peña
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21 July 2006
Fun with Infographics!
From The Independent [via kottke], the answer to the question “Which countries support the immediate ceasefire in the Middle East demanded by the UN and which do not?
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17 July 2006
The March of Freedom
So we turned a corner, we were told, when Al-Qaida’s #1 man in Iraq was capture. And we turned a corner when the ‘unity’ government was installed. Bush’s recent ‘visit’ to Iraq was proof. Hmmm. Looks like maybe we turned a corner into the wrong neighboorhood.
We have trained and equipped a largely Shiite internal security [...]
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26 June 2006
advice for new mamas & papas
we’ll soon be celebrating the little one’s 21st month. overall things have gone swimmingly as each day he grows into a determined, independant individual. i feel pretty passionate about him in a way that grows with each new development. his whims are my entertainment and i feel so lucky that i love shopping [...]
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20 June 2006
from the Dept. of Pre-Crime
Is anyone surprised that our police state has a new, lower standard for taking military (or, you have to assume police) action? Here it is from the Dick’s lips: “‘Suspicion, not evidence, [is] the new threshold for action.” Gee I fee safer already.
Now this is reality - not science fiction, but nonetheless it really was [...]