Posted on May 18, 2008 by Mike Booth
In a week in which it comes to light that President George W. Bush revealed that God told him to invade Iraq–with all that implies–and former Repulican presidential candidate–and pretender to the vice-presidential slot along with John McCain–Mike Huckabee made a supposedly jocular comment in the middle of a speech to the American Rifle Association [...]
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Posted on May 6, 2008 by Mike Booth
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
And here were forests ancient as the [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by Mike Booth
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Posted on April 21, 2008 by Mike Booth
Right.
This from today’s Guardian.
These guys are so predictable. I’m constantly reminded of the old saw: “Military intelligence is to intelligence as military music is to music.”
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by Mike Booth
Just ran across this fascinating article by Christopher King on the Al Jazeera website. I was impressed not so much by the premise, which is familiar, as by the numbers, which are bruising. If you have ever asked yourself: “When will this American madness end?” you’ll be smitten by this article.
But before [...]
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Posted on March 27, 2008 by Mike Booth
This photograph by Gary Winogrand, taken 44 years ago, seems to me not to have lost any of its powerful meaning. If anything, it’s more relevant today than when it was made. It is, I think, a reminder of lessons that were never learned.
Scan courtesy of Masters of Photography
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Posted on March 10, 2008 by Mike Booth
I read in yesterday’s International Herald Tribune that Arizona state senator, Karen Johnson, has sponsored a bill–which the Arizona State Judiciary Committee approved last week–that would allow people with a concealed-weapons permit to carry firearms at public colleges and universities.
This is a self-styled “right-wing wacko’s” solution to the ongoing epidemic of shootings in American high [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2008 by Mike Booth
Last night we watched “Nuremberg” again. It’s the made-for-television film with Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy and Brian Cox which presents a semi-documentary treatment of the International Military Tribunal of Nuremberg, the trial of the most important Nazi party members after World War II. Though it’s unremarkable as cinema, it’s historic content keeps it timely and [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2008 by Mike Booth
The think tank, that is. According to an article published in The Guardian on January 22, 2008, five of the west’s most senior military officers and strategists got together to affirm that “the west must be ready to resort to a pre-emptive nuclear attack to try to halt the ‘imminent’ spread of nuclear and other [...]
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