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Yearly Archives: 2002
Smart nice people
Acting dumb and nasty: Nick Denton (moreover, First Tuesday, yes, that Nick Denton) argues that we should invade Iraq to crush Arab millennial dreams. Continue reading
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The Athens of the West
One of the most absurd of all present day pundits is Victor Davis Hanson, whose theory that there is such a thing as a Western Way of War, which descends from Pericles to Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf, isn’t quite completely bullshit. … Continue reading Continue reading
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parasangs
to march still: the journey to the end of the worm extends like Xenophon’s anabasis. But today I reached the place where the first maps run out, and the end should have been. Onwards. Continue reading
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prophecy
Lo, is it not written? And will it not come to pass as was foretold, yea, even in Babylon? Continue reading
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Let’s drop the big one.
There is one thing I simply don’t understand about the war party. Continue reading
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people who can count
count for more than people who can’t. Rupert, for example, worked out for me how much bigger are the pits in CD than the bases on a string of DNA. It turns out that, if both were the same size, … Continue reading Continue reading
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one good man
is unhappy about the choice of Rowan Williams for Canterbury: my freind Angus, who is as decent an honourable as anyone I know. But his wife is on holiday this week, and it disconcerts him to hear the radio going … Continue reading Continue reading
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Do you hate all Jews?
A question asked of Gary Trudeau in the feedback to his Doonesbury site. I especially like the idea that anyone who laughs at Shrub has blood on his hands. It’s as enlightening as being instructed by Waggy Jim that it … Continue reading Continue reading
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snot green
The phrase turned up in my search requests this morning; I don’t know why, since I couldn’t find myself in Google on the subject. I did, however, find this list of colours for boy’s dolls. Continue reading
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