2 Lodi residents refused entry back into U.S.
They’ll be allowed re-entry if they’ll submit to FBI interrogation in Pakistan, without a lawyer. Obviously, they could have been arrested on this side of their trip and then interrogated here, but this way they can be tortured.
Monthly Archives: August 2006
Statelessness strikes again.
Monday, August 28, 2006
A picture. An epitaph.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Defenseless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
W.H. Auden, “September 1, 1939″
Proof
Monday, August 21, 2006
Saw the movie version of Proof the other night. It’s a nicely written mystery, masquerading as a family drama. I especially liked these lines:
“If I go back to the beginning. I could start it over again. Here. I could go line by line. Try and find a shorter way. I could try [...]
Lamont’s win and campaign finance
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Still getting the bugs squared away here, and I lost a long post on Lamont’s win in Connecticut. The short version:
1. Beware a Republican win against a split “Democratic” ticket.
2. Lamont spent less money than Lieberman, so money doesn’t always unseat incumbents.
3. Speech beat Lieberman, not finances. We should re-separate the two. Can you hear [...]
Artifacts of culture? Or artifacts of barbarism?
Tuesday, August 8, 2006
The Diamond Age has arrived, but no one will admit it. Experts chafe at the mass-production of diamonds. The leading gem analysts refuse to rate them. Duh. “If we could succeed, at a small expenditure of labour, in converting carbon into diamonds, their value might fall below that of bricks.” Capital, Karl Marx
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