I’m finding the latest outrage against Islam hard to believe. In particular, I can’t believe that anyone takes seriously the idea the NYC Apple store insults Islam by it’s resemblance to the Muslims’ sacred Ka’ba. It’s a freakin’ cube.
Yet here are comments sampled from an article in SF Gate.
As a muslim i truely feel this [...]
Posted on October 11th, 2006 by pwyll
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Have you ever tried to collect on one of the various rebates offered by the likes of CompUSA? It’s hard, by design. The marketing types have a term of art: breakage. Breakage occurs when the consumer fails to jump through all the hoops required to get the rebate. This is considered a good thing.
With that [...]
Posted on October 10th, 2006 by pwyll
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Steven Den Beste:
There’s a peculiar thing that’s begun to happen to the left in the last few years: when reality is, apparently, too difficult to bear; when things don’t go the way they wish things had gone, then they retreat into fantasy. And they’re doing it out in public.
Lose the 2000 election? Well, create a [...]
Posted on October 10th, 2006 by pwyll
Filed under: humor, politics | 3 Comments »
I’m beginning to see a silver lining here.
Reuters:
PARIS (Reuters) - A London gallery has decided not to show some works of art because it fears they would upset Muslims, a curator said on Friday, a week after a German opera house canned a Mozart production for the same reason.
The director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery [...]
Posted on October 7th, 2006 by pwyll
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This is no great surprise:
BERLIN, Sep 29 (IPS) - Amnesty International has issued an urgent appeal calling on its members to write letters to the Republic of Iran asking them not to stone seven women.
Nearly all of the women have been sentenced to die by stoning for adultery. Officially Iran had placed a moratorium on [...]
Posted on October 6th, 2006 by pwyll
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Ned Batchelder, writing about raising an autistic child:
If Socrates had had an autistic child, I imagine he would have also said, “The fully-examined life is an exhausting pain in the ass”. I would love to not have to carefully orchestrate every aspect of Nat’s life. I would love for him to be able to walk [...]
Posted on October 5th, 2006 by pwyll
Filed under: personal observations | 1 Comment »
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