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Anders Breivik, The American Tea Party, Norway and "Sharia Creep" | The Awl Sharia creep is just one more item of proof that the EU nationalists and American Tea Party right-wings are speaking the same language (even when they're not speaking the same language). When Progress Party leader Siv Jensen warned about the Islamic threat, […]

H+ trailer: a post-McLuhanist reading .. the underlying premise appears to be The Hubris Of Technology Will All But Annihilate Our Species, with a sideserving/undercurrent of Moral Panic. Handwringing over the potentially corrosive-to-civilisation properties of social media is common currency (as regular readers will be only too aware already), which means the soil is well-tilled […]

New Pop Music Sounds Like Its Predecessors – NYTimes.com Mr. Sterling sees the time-out-of-joint nature of today’s pop as a side effect of digiculture. One of the curiosities of the futuristic-seeming information technology that we now enjoy is that it has dramatically increased the presence of the past in our lives. From YouTube to iTunes, […]

Eugene Robinson: GOP Candidate Cain Gets Away With Bigotry – Truthdig Let’s return to the real world for a moment and see how bogus this argument is. Presumably, Cain would include Roman Catholicism among the “traditional religions” that deserve constitutional protection. It happens that our legal system recognizes divorce, but the Catholic Church does not. […]

The Key To Disaster Survival? Friends And Neighbors : NPR (tags: sustainability social)

The Arabs’ Fourth of July The Arab peoples deserve their Fourth of July, and deserve the support of the American people in their quest to end decades of rule by strong men, secret police, and mafia-like cartels run by ruling families and their cronies, which have severely limited the human and economic growth of this […]

Geeks Bearing Gifts Far be it from me to doubt Ms. Campanella's sincerity, But… the question is before us: Is this the final triumph of geekitude? Or a cruel co-opting of a label hard-won and even harder lived? (tags: gender science) Phantom Military Advisors And “Fair” Fighting – By Mark Ames – The eXiled (tags: […]

Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov My rating: 4 of 5 stars View all my reviews

What Exactly Is the War Powers Act and Is Obama Really Violating It? (tags: war politics) Machinists Union Quarrels With IKEA-Owned Factory : NPR (tags: labor economics)