December 2007
As presidential hopefuls from both parties rally... →
“No corporate lobbyist or anyone who has lobbied for a foreign government will...”
– John Edwards
“The housing market is in a death spiral. Eventually, the median price of a house...”
– Jim Kunstler
The Five Iraqs →
“Dr. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity School, told us...”
– Chris Hedges
“You must fight [clichés] or you’ll sound like every hack. You’ll never make your...”
– William Zinsser
“American sprawl was built on the twin pillars of low gas prices and a relentless...”
– Eduardo M. Peñalver
“It would be nice, for once, if the constant drumbeat from Aging Wealthy White...”
– Chris Bowers
“Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has...”
– Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use
“There’s much more that’s wrong with this show. I’m uncomfortable with the idea...”
– Creepy To Catch a Predator
“Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against...”
– Activists in Vermont town want Bush, Cheney subject to arrest
Watching the Watchers: Why Surveillance Is a... →
“Today, Benazir is being hailed as a martyr for freedom and democracy, but far...”
– Pakistan’s flawed and feudal princess
“George Bush is a happy stooge of his corporate handlers. He blithely enriches...”
– Chris Hedges
The Death Penalty
THOMAS CAHILL: ...there is a kind of collusion among lawyers whether they're prosecutors or defenders, and judges, and an awful lot of horrible things happen in order to get as many people as possible executed.
BILL MOYERS: But there is the question of a crime and of justice as some people see it.
THOMAS CAHILL: The crime is secondary. Crime is secondary. There are no millionaires on death row nor will there ever be. Almost everyone on death row is poor. And do you really think that no millionaire ever committed a capital crime?
BILL MOYERS: So what are you saying?
THOMAS CAHILL: I'm saying that there are certain people in our society that we are willing to offer up. And not others. And they're the people who have no power. We're not killing Dominique Green because he committed murder. We're killing Dominique Green because we want to kill somebody.
“Oh, and by the way, at the risk of asking a discomforting question of the...”
– Jacob G. Hornberger
“In an analysis of State Department data on terrorism, Krueger discovered that...”
– Murdercide
Sci-fi films are as dead as Westerns, says Ridley... →
“Waterboarding was used by the Nazi Gestapo and the feared Japanese Kempeitai. In...”
– Navy JAG Resigns Over Torture Issue
“Pakistan was a reasonably stable state for four years after it came into...”
– Naim Sahib
“Adobe’s John Nack discusses the ways that Adobe uses Omniture, but completely...”
– Daring Fireball
“The basic story is that last March, the wise men who run Circuit City came up...”
– Dean Baker
2007: More Web Design Trends & Cliches →
Success & Motivation →
Eliminationism in America →
“Lilla argues that the modern western concept of freedom is the result of...”
– The Stillborn God
“Most of what present-day Christians do in church each Sunday is rooted not in...”
– Pagan Christianity
“Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States had an...”
– Bruce Springsteen
You Might Be Misrepresenting God If… →
“I first met Benazir at her father’s house in Karachi when she was a fun-loving...”
– Tariq Ali
“The copyright wars are a form of contemporary Lysenkoism, a farce wherein we all...”
– Cory Doctorow
“I believe that those who own and dispense knowledge have turned off at last one...”
– Roger C. Schank
“I suggest a different, even darker solution to Fermi’s Paradox. Basically,...”
– Geoffrey Miller
Good Experience Games →
“During the last twenty-four hours I have probably experienced the greatest...”
– A young blonde Icelandic woman’s recent experience visiting the US
