Al Gore

Remember that line from An Inconvenient Truth, shortly after the ani­ma­tion of Lower Manhattan under­wa­ter, about how there are more things than just ter­ror­ism to be con­cerned about? Turns out that’s even more pre­scient (via) than he was likely aware at the time.

I Say ‘God-Damn!’

God damn, god damn, god damn. But not all of them are focused on bor­der con­cerns. If you talk to the Minutemen long enough, the sub­ject of immi­gra­tion inevitably floats to the sur­face. “I see the nation descend­ing into poverty, philo­soph­i­cally, and part of it is ille­gal immi­gra­tion, a big part of it,” says a twentysomething …

The Use of Color

In an ear­lier post, I had noted that I would write some more on a phở­to­graph I had posted to pro­vide a graphic illus­tra­tion of the kinds of regimes that decided on tri­als when it was in the best inter­est of the state, rather than, for exam­ple, the inter­ests of jus­tice. When you look at …

*Ding*

The second-biggest Shia spir­i­tual leader (who, per­fectly enough, I’ve never heard of) was quoted on NPR today from some­thing he said last Friday (2006 – 09 – 22) as say­ing that there is no “con­flict of civ­i­liza­tions”, only a “con­flict of igno­rance”. Which is as near to cor­rect as any state­ment yet on the cur­rent West vs. Mid-East “blow …