I want to talk a bit about Pakistan, a bit about Canada, and tie the two together with a story about a blogger in a world of trouble.
Pakistan, like the US, has a death penalty. The Pakistani legal code includes capital crimes the US code does not contemplate, such as apostasy against Islam. Here is [...]
Posted on September 12th, 2006 by pwyll
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HispanicBusiness.com:
California police are probing into whether hackers illegally downloaded a private, taped conversation of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger from state computers, a spokesman said yesterday.
In the remarks, the celebrity governor spoke of blacks and Latinos, including a Hispanic state lawmaker, as having “hot” blood.
Arnold, can’t you just get past that hot Latin blood stuff? I [...]
Posted on September 12th, 2006 by pwyll
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9/11 conspiracy theories come in two flavors, LITHOP (let it happen on purpose) and MITHOP (made it happen on purpose). I’ll leave it to the reader to guess which American president is said to be the one who let or made it happen on purpose.
The MITHOP flavor is the more disgusting and absurd. Here is [...]
Posted on September 12th, 2006 by pwyll
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Via Betsy’s Page
Think for a moment about the concerted action by Democrats, their lawyers, former White House operatives, Bill Clinton, sympathetic historians, and lefty bloggers to stop this show. Remember that this was the same crowd that was full of praise of for Fahrenheit 9/11 for crystallizing their opposition to George Bush. Accuracy and versimilitude [...]
Posted on September 10th, 2006 by pwyll
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I have nothing to say that rises to the solemnity of the anniversary of 9/11, so tomorrow I will say nothing at all. My recommendation for some 9/11 reading is Martin Amis’ essay, The Age of Horrorism. It is interesting, insightful, and important.
On the eve of the fifth anniversary of 9/11, one of Britain’s [...]
Posted on September 10th, 2006 by pwyll
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Posted on September 9th, 2006 by pwyll
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