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How it works
Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank
Don’t Watch Cable News!
Dice. Coins. Roulette wheels. Monkeys throwing darts. Slips of paper in a hat. Eenie meenie miney mo. These are all methods of picking alternatives that would outperform the vast majority of political pundits.
More at Beware Our Blind Seers:
Energy and the Environment: A view from Asia
John Baez reports on the 2010 Singapore Energy Lecture, given by Lee Hsien Loong, the Prime Minister of Singapore.
“…and I approved this message.”
Unique on the planet
Republican Climate Denial: Nearly Monolithic, and Internationally Unique
….the US GOP is not only coalescing around climate denial–forcing out moderates who accepted the science–but also unique around the world in its uniform opposition to this robust body of research.
A Thought Experiment
Good Questions
Ann Althouse looks at Joshua Green’s Why is This GOP House Candidate Dressed as a Nazi? and asks:
How evil is it for a candidate to play the role of a Nazi in war reenactments? How evil is it for a journalist to write about that and bury — in the 13th paragraph — the news that the same man — Rich Iott — has also done reenactment as a Civil War Union infantryman, a World War I doughboy and a World War II American infantryman and paratrooper?
More at Witch! Whore! …Nazi!
FWIW, a few years ago, at an event in Iowa, I met some people who reenact a Soviet unit in the “Great Patriotic War.” It never occurred to me to think about their politics in 21st century America.
Twitter, Facebook, and social activism
Why the revolution will not be tweeted, via Slashdot.
This reminded me of something a friend wrote last summer:
Facebook connected me to current friends, old friends, old non-friends, current non-friends, concert venues, my library, and dozens of other people. But these were, as Umair Haque phrased it so well, “weak, artificial connections, what I call thin relationships.” Following all these people takes time and attention, but I have as much connection with a person who used to share deep conversation with me as I do with someone who was a passing acquaintance: not only thin, but impersonally thin.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 