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Contrary Brin: An Interesting Guest Posting…

Contrary Brin: An Interesting Guest Posting…

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Iraq’s War Porn

AlterNet: War on Iraq: Iraq’s War Porn is powerfully written and has stimulated a thoughtful set of responses – well worth reading.

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Flemming Rose on “Europe’s politics of victimology”

Jyllands Posten editor Flemming Rose defends himself re the mohammed cartoons which idiot Mullah Krekar decried as a “declaration of war” against Islam claiming without apprent irony about Western secularists that “as the losing side, they commit violence.” Unfortunately Rose … Continue reading

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AlterNet: The Slippery Slope of Self-Censorship

The Slippery Slope of Self-Censorship (found via AlterNet) is an article by David Morris of Minnesota which provides the best commentary yet on the Danish Cartoon Furor.

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MWU!: A Mountain Out of a Molehill Over Danish Cartoons

Mona Eltahawi’s article A Mountain Out of a Molehill Over Danish Cartoons provides a welcome breath of sanity.

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Writing for the Web: The Limits of Satire

Crawford Killlian blogs his Tyee article ‘The Limits of Satire’ on the Danish cartoon frenzy. I agree with most of what he says in general terms, but I am not sure that it fits the actual circumstances. The cartoons were … Continue reading

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The Offending Cartoons

Well, so far as I can tell from this image, the twelve cartoons (on the subject of fear of censorship and/or reprisals regarding representations of Mohammed) are as follows: One appears to be mocking the editor who commissioned the illustrations. … Continue reading

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French editor fired over cartoons

This BBC News article reports the firing of France Soir editor Jacques Lefranc by owner Raymond Lakah over the re-publication of cartoons originating in Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten which “gave offense” to Muslims. But if Mohammed is not to be despised, then … Continue reading

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Light in the Darkness

Light in the Darkness

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Intelligent Evolution

Intelligent Evolution by EOWilson on Darwin’s books (from harvardmagazine.com via A&L Daily)

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democracyarsenal.org: North Korea: Unravelling already?

democracyarsenal.org: North Korea: Unravelling already? I agree with Dan Kervick’s comment that “it doesn’t really matter who delivers first as long as the deliveries both take place”. In fact the common statement makes no precise commitment as to the timing … Continue reading

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Flu Bloggers Getting Alarmed

In thetyee.ca Avian Flu Bloggers Getting Alarmed Crawford Killian notes what seems to him a slow uptake of the Bird Flu issue by mainstream media – is this another y2k or something we should be reacting to?

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The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld – Recent works by the secretary of defense. By Hart Seely

The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld – Recent works by the secretary of defense. By Hart Seely

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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Religion has no part in this

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Religion has no part in this

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AlterNet: War on Iraq: Galloway Goes To Washington

AlterNet: War on Iraq: Galloway Goes To Washington

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Crawford Killian: Yet Another Blog

Crawford Killian has just announced a new blog called Bridging the Income Gap in which he will be leading discussion of the pernicious effects on a society of having widely spread incomes.

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