Monthly Archives: July 2009
Israel fortifies opposition to peace
(Updated below)
Like Presidents Clinton and Carter before him, Barack Obama is trying to broker peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. As a start, Obama asked Israel to stop expanding settlements, a.k.a. stealing Palestinian land. However, just yesterday, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected an important part of Obama’s request:
“In my conversation with [U.S. President [...]
Harry Pottered
Despite my general ignorance of the Potter franchise, other than what I was exposed to while working at retail bookshops, I made the decision to check out the movies being shown nearly back-to-back this past weekend on ABC Family. For those that may be surprised, yes I do actually know what channel it is on, [...]
Insecure Feelings In 'Secure' Cities
Metropolis, a design magazine, recently blogged about a study titled ‘Secure Cities And Shrinking Public Space‘. By measuring accessibility, mobility, and surveillance of the spaces in the civic and financial centers of three cities (New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco) they found that “over 17% of total space within [the] three study sites is [...]
Choose Life
I don’t want to say that the opponents of universal health care are lazy.
Then again, the 4th of July wasn’t that long ago, and I assumed that any red, white and blue-blooded American would have brushed up on the Declaration of Independence in between sips of Heineken. Even if you just read the Spark Notes, [...]
Three ideas to limit government
E.D. Kain at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen wrote an intriguing post on steps we should take to the limit the ominous size and reach of our central government.
E.D.’s idea is that we can make great strides by simply reforming the legislative process. He proposes requiring legislators read bills before voting on them, standardizing the [...]
Obama is not my Daddy
I say mean things about our government. I say that it steals from the poorest and gives to the richest. I say that it shakes with one hand but punches with the other. I say that if the world is a schoolyard, our government is its bully.
If you think of the U.S. government as a [...]
That Woman
Dear Purveyors of Mass Media,
It would do crucial justice to the sanity of this country if there were a moratorium on continued discussion of That Woman. All statements and speculations about “2012″ and the word “presidential” or “candidate” should be abandoned in the context of her name. That Woman has resigned her office due to [...]
The Honduran Coup
On June 28th, the democratically-elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was abducted by the military and deposed to Costa Rica. The perpetrators claimed they removed Zelaya to protect democracy — a near-universal justification for criminal acts on the world stage — but since the action deposed a legitimate government, it easily slides into the category [...]
Obama's joke trials
The Obama administration says it will continue to detain suspected terrorists even if they are acquitted by American courts or military commissions. Which … you know … means having a trial is just a show.
This news came by way of Spencer Ackerman:
Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson moved the Obama administration into new territory from [...]
I still love you
I’m on vacation until Thursday, so I won’t be writing any of my famous blog posts. But since I still love you – and I’m addicted to the news – I will be updating the new Why We Worry Twitter feed:
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