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Category Archives: Politics
GATT.org
Here’s a great account of how two “semi-employed, middle-class (at best) activists with only thrift-store clothes and no formal economics training” posed as spokespeople for the WTO. Among their proposals: a 3-foot phallus for administering electric shocks to sweatshop employees. … Continue reading
Porn Wars II
Forget the War On Terror, enter The War On Porn: “Lam Nguyen’s job is to sit for hours in a chilly, quiet room devoid of any color but gray and look at pornography. This job, which Nguyen does earnestly from … Continue reading
Turning the Tide
Noam Chomsky has a weblog.
Posted in Books, Politics, Uncategorized
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Rummy the Poet
Here’s Donald Rumsfeld, doing a good job showing why G Dubya B. should be censured. Maybe it’s the poetry gig?
Orrin Hatch
Orrin Hatch + comedy gold = not going to happen: the senator prank.
Posted in Amusing, Politics, Zappa Misc
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free speech, free trade…
We all know how the usa is enthusiastic about free speech, but, as a non-american, i’m always increasingly surprised when i read how the usa is not so enthusiastic about free trade, and wonder at the how the eu can … Continue reading
“The more I think about the obscene unfairness of this situation, the angrier I get”
You should read this post from Nigey Lennon. I can’t agree more with the quote above…
Posted in Politics
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“A perfect child? We
“A perfect child? We have one right here – he’s under the coffeetable”FZ France’s highest court of appeal has ruled that disabled children are entitled to compensation if their mothers were not given the chance of an abortion. Wonder what … Continue reading
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