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Month: November, 2002

Kant and Machiavelli look at NATO

30 November, 2002 (23:39) | Sociology | No comments

Will an expanded NATO be a force for international peace, or will its new rapid reaction strategy merely enforce the current world economic order?
Both possibilities were foreseen centuries ago by two European philosophers. Immanuel Kant would have viewed last week’s events as promising nothing less than a new age of “perpetual peace,” and there [...]

Comfortable Silences

30 November, 2002 (23:29) | Sociology | No comments

This is an article (free registration required) I can definitely relate to. Like the author I too am, for the most part, an introvert. Want to find me at a party, you probably won’t as it’s highly unlikely I’ll be there. If I am there look for the guy in the corner in an armchair [...]

We didn’t start the fire

29 November, 2002 (23:40) | Computer | 1 comment

Found via Shelley’s great blog - this must be my night for Flash - a well put together flash version of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire
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Great Canadian Radio

29 November, 2002 (23:28) | Computer | No comments

Thanks to Patrick for pointing out CBC Radio3 a great example of where Internet radio could be going. I don’t normally like all flash sites but this one is slick. While you’re there right click with your mouse and see what you can enable/disable - too cool
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Sea Kings in the Sun

29 November, 2002 (10:43) | Humor | No comments

Canada’s navy has been using the same Sea King helicopters for decades. They are worn out and dangerous. Already crashes have cost our armed services many lives and they need to be replaced. Unfortunately politics has prevented this from happening.
Recently a filk of the Terry Jacks song Seasons In The Sun, called Sea Kings [...]

A Triumphant Call To Arms

29 November, 2002 (10:14) | General | No comments

via TomPaine.com
The Apocalyptic Agenda Of The Neo-Conservatives
Neo-conservative writers have become increasingly vocal about an apocalyptic conflict involving the United States and Muslim world.
Start with Norman Podhoretz, the former longtime editor of Commentary and now a Hudson Institute fellow. Podhoretz calls for en masse regime change in the Middle East, beginning with Iraq and Iran from [...]

Kipling on war

29 November, 2002 (10:05) | Literarature | No comments

“If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied” -
Rudyard Kipling, Common Form, 1918
“Power without responsibility - the perogative of the harlot throughout the ages” Kipling in a conversation with Lord Beaverbrook
While throughout the greater part of his life Kipling glorified war he reached a turning point during WWl when his only [...]

GETTING YOU READY FOR THE HOLIDAYS

28 November, 2002 (21:49) | Humor | No comments

Christmas with Louise
This article won first prize in a 1999 Louisville Sentinel contest to find out who had the wildest Christmas dinner.
As a joke, my brother used to hang a pair of panty hose over his fireplace before Christmas. He said all he wanted was for Santa to fill them. What they say about Santa [...]

More on Moron

27 November, 2002 (22:57) | Political | No comments

Oh my, this story just won’t end Read John Chuckman’s article But he is a moron in today’s YellowTimes
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America behind in the bedroom

27 November, 2002 (20:03) | Humor | No comments

A new study shows that America places 5th behind France,Netherlands, Denmark and Canada in the number of times per year that they have sex. I wonder if this has anything to do with the moralisitic views of the GOP. So all you good Republicans assume the missionary position and F**K for America! At least [...]

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