Wednesday, December 01, 2004
"'They hate our policies, not our freedom...."
Missed from a while back when I was out of town:
- Prison boot camps - a favorite of conservative "tough-on-crime" types - do not work. (The New York Times)
The Genome in Black and White (and Gray) - a future of better specialized medecines or the first step on the road to legitimized eugenics? (The New York Times)
Speaking of race: "who knows how many of those who protested to the FCC about the "risque" nature of the Owens/Sheridan scene were really upset about the interracial aspect of it." Am I a complete dullard for overlooking the race angle every time on these stories (cf. Janet & Justin's "wardrobe malfunction")? (Daily News)
And on a related note, The New York Times' Frank Rich has been on fire recently even if he kind of talks about the same thing every week:
- The Great Indecency Hoax - "Though the F.C.C. had cited 159 public complaints in its legal case against Fox [in which they threatened Fox and its affiliates with the largest indecency fine to date - $1.2 million for the sins of a now-defunct reality program called "Married by America"], the documents obtained by former TV Guide critic turned blogger Jeff Jarvis showed that there were actually only 90 complaints, written by 23 individuals. Of those 23, all but 2 were identical repetitions of a form letter posted by the Parents Television Council. In other words, the total of actual, discrete complaints about "Married by America" was 3 [emphasis added]."
- On 'Moral Values,' It's Blue in a Landslide
Meanwhile:
'They hate our policies, not our freedom' - late on the Wednesday afternoon before the Thanksgiving holiday, the US Defense Department released a report by the Defense Science Board that is highly critical of the administration's efforts in the war on terror and in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (The Christian Science Monitor)
Guantánamo - "tantamount to torture..." Wow, USA Today was so on this one a month ago. (Guardian | Related: Red Cross Finds Detainee Abuse in Guantánamo The New York Times)
The smell of Napalm on a Fallujah morning? (Black Information Link)
U.S. Officials Say Iraq's Forces Founder Under Rebel Assaults - at this rate my unborn chlidren might have to do tours in Iraq. (The New York Times)
And back home, Bush is fronting again. (Newsweek)
And why can't the mainstream media admit that, just maybe, the GOP did steal the election instead of dancing around the issue in the meager coverage they give this story? (Newsweek | Related: Newsclip Autopsy with a telling comparison of the public reaction in the Ukraine vs. in the US to a questionable election outcome.)
And while the US and Europe are distracted with Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, the future of global geopolitical dominance is already being determined somewhere else far, far away. (CBC Business News)
Under the Same Sun - ESSENTIAL reading.
Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches - a daily blog of the real news from inside Iraq (via Omar E.)
"I believe this should be as important as the war on terrorism; as important as rebuilding impoverished countries like Afghanistan or Iraq; as important as peace in the Middle East. This should be as important as if our own daughters and sons were dying." - Alicia Keys, of all people, on the AIDS crisis in Africa. (Billboard)
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- Prison boot camps - a favorite of conservative "tough-on-crime" types - do not work. (The New York Times)
The Genome in Black and White (and Gray) - a future of better specialized medecines or the first step on the road to legitimized eugenics? (The New York Times)
Speaking of race: "who knows how many of those who protested to the FCC about the "risque" nature of the Owens/Sheridan scene were really upset about the interracial aspect of it." Am I a complete dullard for overlooking the race angle every time on these stories (cf. Janet & Justin's "wardrobe malfunction")? (Daily News)
And on a related note, The New York Times' Frank Rich has been on fire recently even if he kind of talks about the same thing every week:
- The Great Indecency Hoax - "Though the F.C.C. had cited 159 public complaints in its legal case against Fox [in which they threatened Fox and its affiliates with the largest indecency fine to date - $1.2 million for the sins of a now-defunct reality program called "Married by America"], the documents obtained by former TV Guide critic turned blogger Jeff Jarvis showed that there were actually only 90 complaints, written by 23 individuals. Of those 23, all but 2 were identical repetitions of a form letter posted by the Parents Television Council. In other words, the total of actual, discrete complaints about "Married by America" was 3 [emphasis added]."
- On 'Moral Values,' It's Blue in a Landslide
Meanwhile:
'They hate our policies, not our freedom' - late on the Wednesday afternoon before the Thanksgiving holiday, the US Defense Department released a report by the Defense Science Board that is highly critical of the administration's efforts in the war on terror and in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (The Christian Science Monitor)
Guantánamo - "tantamount to torture..." Wow, USA Today was so on this one a month ago. (Guardian | Related: Red Cross Finds Detainee Abuse in Guantánamo The New York Times)
The smell of Napalm on a Fallujah morning? (Black Information Link)
U.S. Officials Say Iraq's Forces Founder Under Rebel Assaults - at this rate my unborn chlidren might have to do tours in Iraq. (The New York Times)
And back home, Bush is fronting again. (Newsweek)
And why can't the mainstream media admit that, just maybe, the GOP did steal the election instead of dancing around the issue in the meager coverage they give this story? (Newsweek | Related: Newsclip Autopsy with a telling comparison of the public reaction in the Ukraine vs. in the US to a questionable election outcome.)
And while the US and Europe are distracted with Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, the future of global geopolitical dominance is already being determined somewhere else far, far away. (CBC Business News)
Under the Same Sun - ESSENTIAL reading.
Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches - a daily blog of the real news from inside Iraq (via Omar E.)
"I believe this should be as important as the war on terrorism; as important as rebuilding impoverished countries like Afghanistan or Iraq; as important as peace in the Middle East. This should be as important as if our own daughters and sons were dying." - Alicia Keys, of all people, on the AIDS crisis in Africa. (Billboard)
