September 13, 2005
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- Have these people never seen Dr. Strangelove? New Pentagon doctrine gives President the power to order a pre-emptive nuclear strike.
- Could we perhaps control hurricanes, or at least limit their power? These particular ideas don't seem all that do-able, but the possibility of large-scale intentional influence on the weather is intriguing.
- Read about some guy's assessment of The Ten Stupidest Utopias.
- Gay activists are creating a website listing the names and addresses of all the people who signed the petition calling for a Massachusetts ballot initiative to ban gay marriage. I think this is very legitimate and fair: actions or statements whose intent is to influence the public law should be made publicly.
- Attempts by FEMA and the White House to block media coverage of the dead have ended, after a courageous (though profit-seeking) effort by CNN to fight those attempts. Why should the government be able to restrict media coverage of the dead in this, or in Iraq? Utterly against our principle of a free press.
- Some interesting laser photos.
- Does disaster always lead to increased assertion of authority, and decreased civil liberties?
- I've never liked Coheed And Cambria before, but their absurdly titled new album, "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness," sounds like a cross between The Nixons, Ted Leo, and Rush. It sounds completely different from their older stuff, and I really like it, and recommend it (minus a couple tracks that are missteps).
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Posted at September 13, 2005 1:24 AM | Comments (4)
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When Danny was here last weekend, he was looking at a German news website for foreign perspective. The images there of the hurricane damage were very different from what the American media was showing. It was the first image of a floating bodies I had seen and made the reality much more, well, real... I think we deserve a true perspective of what is occurring, and if it includes dead bodies, then so be it. If everything is sugar-coated, we won't feel the compassion necessary to make it better.
Posted by: Cara Bohon at September 13, 2005 12:21 PM
I posted on the nuclear weapons thing as well... and made pretty much the same Dr. Strangelove reference. Remember, the terrorists are after our bodily fluids.
Posted by: Jeff at September 13, 2005 7:50 PM
Dude, you dont really seem to know coheed and cambria a bit, you should read their comics before you say the album's name is senseless.
Posted by: Whiteslash at July 19, 2006 11:45 PM
AND absurd.
Posted by: Whiteslash at July 19, 2006 11:49 PM
