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How to Minimize Politics in Your Company // ben's blog
High-level office politics (CXO level), and how to deal with it.
Boycott Knog « thatmessengerchick
King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein (1882-1951)
Essay by King Abdullah explaining why Palestine does not want European Jews returning to the Middle East. (1) Historically speaking, it's no more Jewish land than Arab land. (2) The problem of the European Jews is not an Arab problem--they were persecuted by Christian Europeans, and Christian Europeans should deal with it. (3) Other countries should bear the refugee burden. (4) It's not true that most Jews want to return to Israel, and if they do, they've been brainwashed and threatened to think this way.
Interview with Shut Up, Foodies – Eat Me Daily
"I'm interested in the class politics of food and so I like to skewer people a bit who act like the solution to crappy fast food is having a garden in your backyard and spending a ton of money at the farmer's market."
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Anne Applebaum - Merkel's quiet ascension in Germany could envelope Europe - washingtonpost.com
On Merkel's successes: "But Merkel provokes no jealousy or competitiveness among the alpha males who run large countries, and she inspires no fear among the citizens of smaller ones."
Anne Applebaum - Anne Applebaum on the political response to swine flu - washingtonpost.com
On H1N1, and the curiously different responses of governments: "Each of these countries has produced different medical explanations for its actions, and each medical explanation is widely perceived to be a cover for political machinations, at least by the opponents of the relevant government." Oh WHO: "And hardly anyone knows what to make of the WHO or its Web site. Is the word "pandemic" just medical bureaucratese for a cough and a sore throat? Or does it mean that everyone who isn't vaccinated will die?"
By T.R. Reid -- Five Myths About Health Care in the Rest of the World
Op-Ed Columnist - Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You’re a Liberal - NYTimes.com
"One of the main divides between left and right is the dependence on different moral values. For liberals, morality derives mostly from fairness and prevention of harm. For conservatives, morality also involves upholding authority and loyalty — and revulsion at disgust." hrm maybe.
Michael Kinsley - The Cuba Embargo a Proven Failure - washingtonpost.com
"To this day, there is one communist country toward which American policy has been unrelentingly hostile. One communist government with which we have never even attempted detente. One communist country that we invaded without even a fig leaf of an invitation from a legitimate government. One communist country where we have never tried the seductive power of capitalism and instead have maintained a total trade embargo. And now, 20 years after communism collapsed almost everyplace else, in this same country a communist government survives unreformed and unapologetic."
Taking Power, Sharing Cereal - New York Times
"Think MTV’s “Real World” with a slovenly cast of Democratic power brokers. While Washington may have more than its share of crash pads for policy-debating workaholics, few, if any, have sheltered a quorum as powerful as this one. About a quarter-mile southeast of the Capitol, the inelegantly decorated two-bedroom house has become an unlikely center of influence in Washington’s changing power grid. It is home to the second- and third-ranking senators in the new Democratic majority (Mr. Durbin, the majority whip, and Mr. Schumer, the vice chairman of the Democratic caucus) and the chairman of the House Democratic Policy Committee (Mr. Miller)."
PolitiFact | The Obameter: Tracking Barack Obama's Campaign Promises
keeping score on 500 campaign promises
Copenhagenize.com - The Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog: Critical Miss or Critical Mass?
(anti critical mass post) critical mass makes cycling seem like an extreme, activist activity: "He'll realise that in order to ride his bike he would have to infiltrate a sub-culture populated by individuals very unlike himself."
Africa is giving nothing to anyone -- apart from AIDS
More tiresome demagoguery about candidates' income and property. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
"But this is the time, which boringly occurs every four years, when every politician in the country tries to act as if he or she went barefoot to school."
Robert A. Caro - Lyndon Johnson’s Dream, Obama’s Speech - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
All Aboard for the Senator - washingtonpost.com
PRINT Magazine - The Law of the Letter
the surprisingly deep politics of type
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) - Dedicated to advancing understanding, acceptance, & support for the autistic community
i need to start collecting these, autistic organisation claiming that autism is not an illness or disability, just a difference
putin and medvedev on the front page of the times
showing "trickery" in the region of medvedev's crotch
Two letters@Everything2.com
"To my successor: When you find yourself in a hopeless situation which you cannot escape, open the first letter, and it will save you. Later, when you again find yourself in a hopeless situation from which you cannot escape, open the second letter."
The Party of Lincoln ... - By David Greenberg - Slate Magazine
licoln was a republican/how democrats became the party for blacks over the 30s, 40s, 50s
Profiles: The Conciliator: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Democracy index | Liberty and justice for some | Economist.com
How NASA Screwed Up (And Four Ways to Fix It)
COLOURlovers :: Blog / 11 Great Color Legends
why colours are associated with various things. most surprising is that until 2000, democrats and republicans didn't always have blue and red as their colours (is this right?)
The 10 Downing Street Door
oh, england: the "0" on 10 downing street is fixed at an angle, because the original had a badly-fixed "0" also.
PREVIEW: The Man Who Would Be <br><i>le Président</i>
LA Weekly
the right still has fun, the left, not so much
The New York Review of Books: Their Master's Voice
So misplaced are many of his citations from Islamic scripture that in all likelihood, one of the best ways to diminish the al-Qaeda leader's stature would be to publish his words more widely in the Muslim world.
The Dark Side of China’s Rise
chinese economy about to do not so well?
Granta: 'How to write about Africa' by Binyavanga Wainaina
"Health Care Forum" by Adam Gopnik and Malcolm Gladwell
Salon.com Books | America's unlikely defender
BBC NEWS | UK | Hindus criticise Christmas stamp
Just Supposin' - In defense of hypothetical questions. By Michael Kinsley