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Saturday, Sep 13, 2003
huzzah
ye olde ethyl returns from a long summer lull. we hope he is refreshed.
general election
"Michael Moore to Wesley Clark: Run!"
kick me
"The soccer movie, titled Goal!, is to be a fictional story of a Latino soccer player who rises from the slums of Los Angeles to join a small northern English club and eventually plays in the World Cup, is scheduled for release at the end of 2004. The sequel in expected in 2005 and the third film in 2006.
Bender described the project as similar to the famous Rocky series of boxing movies, "only bigger.""
wright of way
"Still, viewed against the backdrop of history, the case for a kind of manifest destiny is stronger than ever. In this version, America's mission is different from the ones libertarians and neoconservatives have in mind — passive role model or aggressive evangelizer, respectively. It is in some ways a grander mission, carrying a deep and subtle moral challenge. Indeed, the challenge is so deep, and so natural an outgrowth of history, that the idea of destiny in some nonsecular sense isn't beyond the pale. In any event, Sept. 11, 2001, illustrates the challenge in painfully vivid form."
Thursday, Sep 04, 2003
buggy code
delay defoliated
making change
another new groupblog entry of and by european issues -- a fistful of euros.
Wednesday, Sep 03, 2003
group hug
group blogs are all the rage of late. here are a few notables in case you missed them.
crooked timber
os politics
corrente
not geniuses
Tuesday, Sep 02, 2003
our time to be famous
"The original impetus for our 100 best songs 1977 - 2003 feature was VH1's recent special devoted to the best songs of the last 25 years. True, no list is ever perfect, but PopMatters wanted to broaden things out a bit and include some songs you may not have ever heard on VH1 or MTV. But then we weren't happy with the 25-year cut-off and felt it was just a little too arbitrary. So, instead, we polled our whole staff on the "best" songs since the ferocious sounds of Johnny Rotten and the boys and Joe Strummer and his gang blasted out of the UK and changed popular music forever."
fox in the henhouse
"Many see him as a power-mad, rapacious right-wing vulgarian. Rupert Murdoch has indeed been relentless in building a one-of-a kind media network that spans the world. What really drives him, though, is not ideology but a cool concern for the bottom line—and the belief that the media should be treated like any other business, not as a semi-sacred public trust. The Bush Administration agrees. Rupert Murdoch has seen the future, and it is him."
Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003
spread the health
"As goes New Jersey, so goes the world: The battle lines drawn by McGreevey and developers typify how the story of smart growth has played out in the media. However, the most convincing arguments made at the "Preserving the American Dream" panels didn't come from developers or ideologues who oppose government regulation on principle. They came from conservatives with environmental sympathies who point to D.C.'s suburbs as just one example among many where so-called smart-growth measures have led to anything but. Indeed, as the debate over sprawl heats up, and the language of the debate is intentionally muddled by those on all sides, voters are going to have to be a lot smarter about smart growth."