I imagine every morning that Meghan McCain wakes up, rolls over, and thinks “I suppose that the world out there is desperately wondering what I think about ${whatever}.” And that wake-up flash of lucidity is shared by most members of the pundit class, who mistake their dominance of the media landscape for interest on our part.
The US has tried to assert its colonial dominance over the internet, and has acted as though it is its domain since the beginning. That has had a lot of policy implications, and has created a “karma debt” that I think we are only starting to confront.
Well, yes.
The first time I saw this, I mis-read it as “Lemmy”, which – as you will see – would be double plus epic. But it’s still pretty good.
Taylor Mali’s slam nation performance: What Do Teachers Make?
[WARNING: sexual abuse]
Any group which is generally male-led, maintains strong insider-versus-outsider privacy, and has its own process for adjudicating misbehavior – is going to be a haven of sexual abuse. Period. This applies in retrospect to the US congress, the roman catholic church, police departments, certain buddhist ashrams, some yoga schools, the boy scouts, etc.
That’s a fairly standard role for a soldier, really. But, I’ve been surprised at how little press this incident received.
The guy on the far right is about to be pointing the barrel of his rifle into the back of his friend’s knee. Friends don’t do that. [salon]
I’ve been sweating getting the doors for the shop done, which has been an emotional nightmare for me (strong sense of failure) as I watch my self-imposed deadline for getting the shop online recede into the distance.
In Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes [wc] he writes at one point that what the US needed was an intelligence agency, but what it got was a “Department of Dirty Tricks.” [Read more…]