Dec 21, 2007 0
Phase II: Wes Unruh interview.
The G-Spot episode 20 Sean Marsden interview, and more.
Point of Inquiry: Richard Dawkins – Science and the New Atheism.
Point of Inquiry: Student Freethought Leaders Speak Out.
The Viking Youth: How to Cook a Hippie.
Occult of Personality: An Inquiry Into Suppressed Information.
Oct 24, 2007 0
Norman Podhoretz believes that America needs to go to war soon with Iran. As far as he knows, Rudy Giuliani thinks the same thing.
‘I was asked to come in and give him a briefing on the war, World War IV,’ said Mr. Podhoretz, a founding father of neoconservatism and leading foreign policy adviser to Mr. Giuliani. ‘As far as I can tell there is very little difference in how he sees the war and how I see it.’
During a long interview this week in his bookcase-lined East 81st Street home, Mr. Podhoretz, 77, explained the very straightforward proposition he has been proposing to Mr. Giuliani from the start of the campaign: ‘The choice before us is either bomb those nuclear facilities or let them get the bomb.’
Full Story: The New York Observer.
More about Giuliani here.
More about the impending war with Iran:
The Secret History of the Impending War with Iran That the White House Doesn’t Want You to Know.
Nov 24, 2006 0
The new issue of Reconstruction is on blogging. I’m featured in the “Why Blog” section along with bloggers from all over the world, from Montana to Iran. Douglas Rushkoff, Mickey Z, and Rebecca Blood are some of the bigger names featured.
Reconstruction 6.4: Theories/Practices of Blogging.
Sep 29, 2006 0
I was just reminded of this by Fell’s post about Deliver Us From Evil:
Vatican City is a country. Vatican City has formal relations (embassies, diplomats, etc.) with nearly two hundred other countries, is active in the European Union and the United Nations, issues coins and postage stamps, has its own top level Internet domain (.va), and has a volunteer military. That Vatican City is governed by the Holy See – that is, the Roman Catholic Church – does not make Vatican City any less of a country. Iran and Saudi Arabia are no less countries due to their being Islamic theocracies, Israel is no less a country for being a Jewish theocracy, and in the same way Vatican City is no less a country due to its being a Christian theocracy.
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Amnesty International has a long and rightfully proud history of criticizing governments that did not break their own laws but which clearly go against human decency. There are many countries in which torture is legal, but Amnesty International speaks out against them. There are many countries in which capital punishment is legal, but Amnesty International speaks out against them. Vatican City is a country through which child abusers were systematically sheltered for decades by people given diplomatic immunity to do so. It is appropriate that Amnesty International should speak out against Vatican City.
I’d like to start some sort of letter writing campaign or petition to Amnesty International on this issue, but I’m not sure how to start. I’ve donated money to AI before, but I’m not a formal member so I suppose that would be the first step.
Apr 20, 2006 0
Link-Soup for 2006-04-20
Micropatronage wiki:
Keywords: micropatronage, web2.0
Adam Greenfield on the WELL:
Keywords: everyware, politics, tech
Thomas Friedman would rather see a nuclear Iran than see BushCo attack Iran:
Keywords: politics
Web 2.0 and the web serf:
Keywords: web2.0
1-800-FREE411:
Free directory assistance. You just have to listen to a 12 second ad Keywords: stuff
How Montana is dealing with meth:
Keywords: addiction, justice, rural
The R. F. Outcault Society’s Yellow Kid Web Site:
Keywords: comicbooks
Welcome to Perplex City:
Keywords: games
Welcome to the New—and Private—Neighborhood: Local government in a world of postmodern pluralism by Robert H. Nelson:
Keywords: housing, urban
Apr 17, 2006 0
Iranian Sufis say Islamic mysticism has become more and more popular in the country in recent years.
No official statistics are available, but Heshmatollah Riazi, a former professor of philosophy and theology in Iran, believes two to five million Iranians practice Sufism today – compared to only about 100,000 before Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979.
(via Robot Wisdom).
Oct 31, 2005 0
Transsexuals are permitted to have sex-change operations in Iran by the decree of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini himself. The founder of the Islamic republic passed a fatwa allowing one transsexual woman to have the operation because sexual ambiguity made it impossible for her to carry out her religious duties properly. Iran now has dozens of people who have had a sex change.
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