Believe it or not, I woke up today with little to blog about. I ascribe some of this to a cold that has my head blocked up. Read my usual morning poetry (Wendell Berry & William Carlos Williams and prose (The Uses of the Past by Muller). Then sipped coffee and poked around online.
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War by remote control – Counting the Cost – Al Jazeera English
Short piece on Drone industry.
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Vaclav Havel, Dissident Playwright Who Led Czechoslovakia, Dead at 75 – NYTimes.com
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A Message Of Solidarity From Archbishop Desmond Tutu | OccupyWallSt.org
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Reflections on Iraq as U.S. Troops Leave – NYTimes.com
Letters to the editor.
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When Japanese-Americans Were Interned in Camps – NYTimes.com
More letters to the editor. This time correcting the idea that somehow the imprisoned Japanese-Americans in WWII in California deserved it. Good grief, I hadn’t heard that one. Must have missed the original piece.
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Robert Scheer: There Goes the Republic – Robert Scheer’s Columns – Truthdig
The new Defense Authorization Law is another amazing step into the void for America.
National Defense Authorization Act sent to W.H. – Charles Hoskinson – POLITICO.com
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Always interesting to see how we look from across the pond.
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Christopher Hitchens death: In Memoriam, my courageous sibling, by Peter Hitchens | Mail Online
Moving tribute from his brother from whom he was estranged until recently.
Here’s some articles I bookmarked to read about him.
News Desk: Hitch : The New Yorker
Christopher Hitchens: ‘the consummate writer, the brilliant friend’ | Books | The Guardian
The one above is by Ian McEwan.
Having read many essays by him and his autobiography, I think he was brilliant. I think he was wrong about Iraq, but right about a lot of other stuff including Jerry Falwell.
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Interesting overview of the failure of leadership in the west.
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The Beck of Revelation by Mark Lilla | The New York Review of Books
Glen Beck, that is.
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