" The Thin Veneer of Civilization The big lesson of Katrina is not about the incompetence of the Bush administration, the scandalous neglect of poor black people in the United States or our unpreparedness for major natural disasters,

I want to share this post from theoildrum.com. I don't necessarily agree with the analogy, but I think it is brilliantly realised in purely visual terms. The author, AFAIK, runs a soup canteen at a college and has no movie connections:

I'm discussing hyperbole first in order to help clarify what I mean by the phrase "rarely articulated rules" in my title. Also, I beg forgiveness for any poor grammar. I'm trying to articulate a rather difficult concept in a

1 Is "black hole" a racially insensitive term? Apparently to some. From the City Hall Blog at the Dallas Morning A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon. County commissioners were

http://snipurl.com/28h0n New Statesman - Lights! Camera! Fiction! (www newstatesman com) Lights! Camera! Fiction! Chris Weitz Published 08 May 2008 A hundred years ago the job of screenwriter didn't exist in the early film business; today the

The best analogy I can think of for the impact ... watching "Same Old, Same Old" on the big screen. Caroline But the "public" doesn't decide whether this strike will succeed or not. Oh, you say but the producers are ...

Usually boycotts are not aimed at "someone" but at some corporation. And, yeah, boycotts are an attempt to force the corporation to change change something. Yes, to pull the message. To censor. But it's not a "violation" to

Organizing a boycott against someone and arguing that they can ... bus they want, as long as it's in the back. I think the analogy fails in two major ways. First, consumer boycotts are private rather than statutory, i.e., enforced by the

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