by Gil Friend | Oct 29, 2002 | Politics
Ha’aretz: During the PLC discussion before the vote, some Palestinian legislators expressed their doubts about the new cabinet. “I don’t think this Cabinet can lead the Palestinians out of the crisis,” said legislator Ziad Abu Amr. An angry...
by Gil Friend | Oct 29, 2002 | Politics
Lies, damned lies and ongoing dread And the Quote of the Day Award goes to the ever-on-point Jon Carroll: It’s like, hello, the war is over here. Worldwide Islamic fundamentalist uprising. Saddam Hussein: not an Islamic fundamentalist. I really think Dick Cheney...
by Gil Friend | Oct 27, 2002 | Politics
Doc Searles reports: Complexity, Trust and Terror is a thought provoking piece by Langdon Winner in Netfuture. A sample: “Just as sixth-century Romans abandoned their city when the aqueducts were cut, Americans seem to be abandoning essential parts of the...
by Gil Friend | Oct 27, 2002 | Politics
Draft for an Anti-Idiotarian Manifesto Rather surprising posting from the Mother Jones discussion boards… WE REJECT the idiotarianism of the Left — the moral blindness that refuses to recognize that free markets, individual liberty, and experimental...
by Gil Friend | Oct 25, 2002 | Politics
Minneapolis Star-Tribune: “Paul Wellstone, an outspoken liberal Democrat locked in a re-election battle considered key to control of the Senate, was killed in a plane crash today in northern Minnesota along with his wife, daughter and five others.”...
by Gil Friend | Oct 25, 2002 | Politics
“We have thrown ourselves on the mercy of a conscience too clear to be reliable.” John Perry Barlow: “THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC IS DEAD. HAIL THE AMERICAN EMPIRE. OR ELSE. My old pal Mitch Kapor said years ago that what I needed was a...
