Monthly Archives: February 2011

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/08/AR2011020803316.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions  How can one resist the elegant, literary, indeed,  hieratic prose styling’s  of The Great Will (TGW) on any subject, but perhaps they are most beguiling in his prose wedded to current events: most especially now, as we witness together … Continue reading →

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via salon.com Could it be that the Democrats asked Ms. Harman to run again so that Ms. Winograd could be denied the seat. Making it more readily winnable for the more politically conformist and malleable Ms. Hahn? Carefully planned political … Continue reading →

via thedailybeast.com Arianna Huffington is one of the great self-promoters of our present age,rivaling her precursor Clair Booth Luce in the scope and reach of her political/business ambition. She pays her core staff and then gets the other posters to … Continue reading →

via huffingtonpost.com Not totally surprising, but the Huffington Post is censoring all negative posts about Jane Harman, in reply to this post by Mr. Clemons; although they did find a Party stooge to post a one line of almost praise. … Continue reading →

To his fellow Egyptians and to most observers across the world, Mohammed el-Baradei looks like a hero—an international diplomat who might well have lived out his days in the comforts of Geneva and New York, but returned home to provide … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/opinion/06brooks.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss How can an observer not surrender to a specific critical animus toward Cockeyed Platonist (CP), as he opines from his comfortable aerie at The New York Times, on the historic and moving events in Egypt? It is all so … Continue reading →

« Human Planet | Main | Decolonizing My Mind » February 06, 2011 Ramadan and Zizek on Egypt Must see. “The revolutionary chants on the streets of Egypt have resonated around the world, but with a popular uprising without a … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/opinion/06rich.html?ref=opinion Here is Frank Rich cutting through the crap that is mainstream American Journalism, in this instance the revolution in the revolution.