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"We are very clever monkeys. We can get ourselves into lots of trouble." (Idea mine; wording courtesy my girlfriend.) There is good coverage of the attack at the SF Chronicle.

Charismatic Pakistani opposition leader and feminist Benazir Bhutto was assassinated by an attacker who then suicided with a bomb which killed at least 12 other people, 12 days before parliamentary elections.

Coverage from The Guardian.

Coverage from the New York Times.

Analysis from Juan Cole.

Riots are being reported in various cities. ( Read more... )

Why do computer interfaces have so many distractions? Because computers are rare and expensive and it's important to make each one do as much as possible. :-)=

The Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies performed on bicycle parts.

Yesterday, Doris Lessing, famous novelist, feminist, post-colonialist and sometime science fiction writer, won the Nobel Prize for literature. And today, Al Gore and the IPCC have been given the Noble Peace Prize. The wingnutosphere is, on a quick scan, going crazy ( Read more... )

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John Podhoretz's childhood memory of growing up with Madeline L'Engle as a neighbor. (And, it turns out, five blocks from where I spent 11 years of my young life.) Proof positive that neocons do have hearts.

Or at least, most of my political blog reading & writing.
I simply don't have time any more, or won't, very shortly. Beyond that, it seems to me that the time for counsel has passed-those who can be persuaded by debate have been. The situation has clarified itself: the new dynamics of US politics are clear, and the world order has been irrevocably ( Read more... )

In her blog.