In "Regarding the Pain of Others," Sontag deliberates on more than a few mysterious societal predispositions and moments of progression. As she clarified the ambiguity behind the appeal of atrocity photographs, I mined for useful tips to apply to the Darfur campaign. She addresses our idea of collective memory in modernity, saying that in truth it ( Read more... )

"A Wellington, New Zealand, police officer escorted a driver to an optometrist so he could prove he was wearing contact lenses, the Dominion Post reported. After he pulled over Michael Romanos on Monday, officer Richard Hocken noted Romanos' license required him to wear glasses or contact lenses- but Romanos refused to take them out, because he ( Read more... )

I have had an interesting couple of days. We had an "out" night on Thursday, which started at GWU, pretty entertaining ( Read more... )

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"The truth is that neither human beings nor modern societies are wired to respond rationally to terrorism. Vigilance is easy to muster immediately after an event, but it tends to wane quickly, as the attack vanishes from public discourse. We err twice, first by overreacting right after the disaster, while we are still in shock, and later by under- ( Read more... )

"Some of us in the news media have been hounding President Bush for his shameful passivity in the face of genocide in Darfur ( Read more... )

I went to an Americans for Informed Democracy conference at Yale. They hope to be an umbrella organization that connects different campuses, gives them press release and other templates, and gets grants and speakers for different events. At least that's the idea. Specificity was lacking, people complained about that, I left early. But I did meet a ( Read more... )

"(http://www.Bloginspace.com), by MindComet, is a free service that beams blog web feeds into deep space, Agence France Presse reported. 'We are giving bloggers the opportunity to send a piece of their lives into space to potentially connect with extraterrestrials,' said president Ted Murphy ( Read more... )

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This weekend the hip-hop festival was in town. A formerly fellow intern (she quit save darfur to work full time for africa action), and I went to the show friday night: a beat boxer on Israel/Palestine conflict and a play about suburban interpretation of hip-hop, then hookah in Tenleytown ( Read more... )