Canada’s Maclean’s magazine has published a provocative (and likely controversial) essay to the Web entitled, “How George Bush became the new Saddam.” In it, Patrick Graham, a former resident of Iraq, examines the current state of the nation and draws startling conclusions.
On al Qaeda, Mr. Graham writes, “Al-Qaeda in Iraq is essentially a religious criminal […]
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There is a scene in the Ron Fricke film Baraka where a heavy-lidded Japanese snow monkey (the Japanese macaque), bathing in a mountain hot springs, seems to be quietly meditating. Moments later, Mr. Fricke cuts to a contemplative monk, and the similarity between the two individuals is at once jarring and familiar. Humans might not […]
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Pat Buchanan and I disagree on just about everything, especially immigration, but when he’s right, he’s right. Quoting recent remarks by Colin Powell to GQ magazine he asks, “What is the greatest threat facing us now? People will say it’s terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way […]
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The Associated Press has an informative timeline of the Jena Six story, though its presentation is baffling. In the lead paragraphs writer Todd Lewan tries to demonstrate that Jena, LA is not the “cauldron of bigotry that has been depicted.” He quotes black LaSalle Parish councilman Ben Reid, who says, “You have good people here […]
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A team of Peruvian researchers have unearthed the reason residents living near the site of a meteor crash near Lake Titicaca became ill after breathing fumes it produced — and it wasn’t a geyser eruption, gas from something underground, or Area 51. It was arsenic.
According to Luisa Macedo, a researcher for Peru’s Mining, Metallurgy, and Geology Institute, […]
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My first memory of Alice Ghostley is as Esmeralda on television’s “Bewitched.” She was the goofy, addlebrained cousin of Samantha whose spells always went sour and who disappeared whenever Darrin raised his voice, which was often. Sometimes, as I remember, she would scroll in halfway, only to snap shut. At the time I couldn’t appreciate […]
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Having lived a couple of years in Okinawa, I try still to keep abreast of its culture. Recently I’ve been fascinated with Okinawan pop music, a unique blend of Western pop, Japanese instruments and quirky Ryukuan sensibilities. I mention it only because a New York Times review of the Big Dance Theater production “The Other […]
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Is Nuri al-Maliki’s government autonomous, or is it simply a rubber stamp for the Bush administration? Maybe this is a clue: Four days after an outraged government suspended operations of Blackwater USA when a shootout resulted in the deaths of 11 Iraqi civilians, the security firm is back at work, conducting essential missions outside Baghdad’s […]
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Today marks the anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien’s first novel (and still my favorite over any in the subsequent Lord of the Rings trilogy). Wired has a brief history of the book’s publication, quoting Mr. Tolkien’s ambivalence toward modern technology: “I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I […]
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The U.S. economy is about to tank. Badly. Know why? Because war President George W. Bush says it won’t. And nothing he says comes true. When asked about the possibility of a recession, Mr. Bush demurred: “You need to talk to economists. I think I got a B in Econ 101. I got an A, […]
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Picture 3 a.m. under a full moon. The city has been washed clean by rain that ended earlier, leaving in its wake a howling wind that propels ragged cloud remnants across the night sky, turning the moonlight off and on like a Valium afflicted neon sign. You walk the empty streets, hands jammed in the pockets of an old mackintosh, stopping now and then to gaze through darkened windows of vacant shops at their displays — strange mannequins painted as grotesque mimes. Or is it simply the way you perceive them in your insomniac state? (MORE)
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