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Sunday, November 27, 2005
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 | Somewhat Shorter David Gelernter:
Things the '60s got right - Vigorous intellectual exploration in a robust
academic environment as experienced by students back
when we had a liberal society with generously subsidized
higher education and a decent social safety net has given
way to students driven by fear and greed frantically
preparing for desperate competition over a dwindling
number of meaningless jobs at giant soulcrushing corporations
and it's all because of women's equality.
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(Via Busy, Busy, Busy.)
12:29:15 PM 
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That's according to former Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi. What a great moment for freedom and democracy, GOP style. I'm sure that the families of the dead soldiers will be thrilled with hearing that their loved ones died to re-create the same mess that was there before. So there were no WMD and we replaced one brutal regime with another brutal regime, we're forking over billions of taxpayer dollars to help Big Oil take back business they lost thirty years ago and we have Americans, Brits and tens of thousands of Iraqis being killed, all for this. Brilliant.
"People are remembering the days of Saddam. These were the precise reasons that we fought Saddam and now we are seeing the same things."
"We are hearing about secret police, secret bunkers where people are being interrogated," said Allawi, who was Iraq's first prime minister of the post-Saddam Hussein era.
"A lot of Iraqis are being tortured or killed in the course of interrogations," Allawi said. "We are even witnessing Sharia courts based on Islamic law that are trying people and executing them.
(Via AMERICAblog.)
12:06:24 PM
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Cory Doctorow:
A reader writes,
Archive.org has been
forced to take down over 1000 soundboard recordings of
the Grateful Dead by Jerry's wife and a few (perhaps
one) remaining member of the band.
"For years, Archive.org has served as the repository
for the Grateful Deads copious electronic recordings.
Now, the site will be limited to streaming
"audience-recorded" shows.
"The reaction from the very large global Deadhead
community has been very interesting, sociologically.
People are confused, angry, depressed, grateful for
the time they had, and more."
This is pretty disappointing. Deadheads made the Grateful Dead some pretty substantial fortunes over the years by acting as unpaid, volunteer evangelists for their commercial offerings. This is a genuine betrayal of the audience from a couple of greedy people who would line their pockets at the expense of the memory of the generous, mutually beneficial relationship between the band and its supporters.
Link
(Via Boing Boing.)
11:36:30 AM
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