Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Kuro5hin has a brilliant, if lazy, eulogy for George Carlin - who would undoubtedly have loved it.
Pope John Paul II George Carlin embraced the harsh realities of suffering head-on, and showed that they are an integral and unavoidable part of our pilgrimage here on earth, not to be feared but ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
ReadWriteWeb has an interesting but not exactly deeply thought-out piece on Link Journalism. I think the point they miss is to question how much journalism done for mainstream media channels is nothing more than repitition of the day's news agenda - it's not a coincidence that most journalists' bosses are ...
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Along the lines of my recent post about car-related deaths versus terrorism-related deaths, see this graph representing the amounts of deaths related to different issues.
I may have to steal the 'Saint Pete for Peace' moniker.
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
According to a study in the latest issue of Injury Prevention, car crashes kill 400 times more people than international terrorism in the 29 (developed) member countried of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) between 1994 and 2003.
From the InfoWars article on the study:
... the number of Americans ...
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
I'll be upset, but surprised, if I'm asked to remove this post because, apparently, you can copyright a number. If that's the case, should I go for 1? Actually I think 0 is more ...
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
Zach Lipton, a blogger over at Mozillazine, shows himself to be a real human being in his post - The World Is Not Flat. His description of the difference between the reporting on the VA Tech shootings and the ongoing violence ni Baghdad demonstrates an all-too-rare awareness of the ...
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
ThisModernWorld has some pictures comparing recent anti-occupation demonstrations in Iraq with the 'famed' statue toppling that happened 4 years earlier. One can totally ignore the part about the recent anti-occupation demonstrations and still be surprised at the empty area around the statue in it's last moments.
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
These cartograms of the world give a fantastic perspective on global trends such as military spending, toy imports and hiv infection.
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Scientists Cure Cancer - No One Takes Any Notice.
Personally I'm dubious about these claims. After all, if this were likely to prove to be a "cure" for "most cancers" then I'm pretty sure the capitalist profit imperative would ensure it was worth someone's time and effort in research and ...
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
George Carlin hitting the nail on the head
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