On another note, it’s “World Blog Day” today, an event thought up by Israeli blogger Nir Ofir after he saw that “3108″ (the way today’s date is written everywhere but America) looks a little like the word “blog.” His idea was to have bloggers link to five blogs they’ve never seen before. Since [...]
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Bad things come in clusters
Having spent last day running around school and being nutso, I missed the news that two levees failed in New Orleans, and arrived home to find pictures online of total devastation that eerily mirrored the photos of the tsunami devastation in Asia.
I’ve been wondering, why do these things always hit poor people? [...]
Am I a snob if I want oil prices to go up?
The Katrina storm is obviously very, very bad news. I have to admit that I wasn’t paying very close attention to its approach up the Gulf of Mexico — whenever I hear or read about fear of the weather, or of carjackings, or other alarmist news, I run in the opposite direction — but [...]
I need more oil to run over the proles with my Hummer
In What’s the Matter with Kansas? Thomas Frank talks about why America’s middle-class conservatives consistently vote against their own economic interests — voting for conservatives who are in the pocket of, or help run, a corporate America whose chief purpose is to make more money for itself and screw everyone else. One of his [...]
Darfur and Niger are collapsing; why isn’t Mick Jagger?
Coalition for Darfur asks if it’s possible for us to pay attention to more than one Africa tragedy story at a time, and blames the American “agenda-setting” media for it:
The agenda-setting media in the United States have pretty much stopped reporting on the situation in western Sudan, deciding that the food emergency in Niger is [...]
Everything is Super-Illuminated
So when I was sixteen I was in this band, and you’ll have to excuse me, called The Fags (it was a punk-rock thing). It was a messy, good-at-times band that sounded kind of like Fugazi, Nick Cave, and some ska band thrown in a blender. It was led by the charismatic Eugene [...]
This Gaza thing is heady and complicated
Emotions are running high about Israel’s disengagement and pullout from Gaza. Among others, The Head Heeb has been particularly insightful.
This is a momentous time, and it’s hard to make sense of all of these stories and pictures.
As a Jew* it’s difficult to maintain an objective stance when you see a lot of pictures [...]
Carrying pails of water up the hill is hard work; Demi still loves Ashton
This is one of the more affecting posts I’ve read in a while. A blogger from Kabul writes about helping children of a very poor district of Kabul carry water up a hill because they don’t have power or water where they live. In his words:
This part of Kabul called Bahaaristan In Karte [...]
