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In defence of Garth Ennis [18 May 2008|10:24am]

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In Memory of Alex... [18 May 2008|03:46pm]

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South Korea will give North food 'if it asks' (AP) [18 May 2008|06:33am]
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A North Korean soldier, left, uses a pair of binoculars to watch visiting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez at the border village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in South Korea, Friday, May 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - South Korea's president said on Sunday that his country stands ready to help North Korea with food aid, but only if the isolated communist country asks for it and shows a readiness to change.


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Superman #659 [18 May 2008|02:29pm]

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THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: A LINK TO THE PAST, CHAPTER 1 [18 May 2008|12:35am]

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SKorea nuclear envoy heads for talks in Washington (AFP) [18 May 2008|04:54am]
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Kim Sook, South Korea's nuclear envoy, talks to the media upon his arrival from Beijing at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, May 15. Kim left Sunday for talks in Washington amid hopes that North Korea would soon submit a long-awaited declaration on its nuclear programme.(AFP/Pool/Jo Yon-Hak)AFP - South Korea's chief nuclear envoy left Sunday for talks in Washington amid hopes that North Korea would soon submit a long-awaited declaration on its nuclear programme.


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When Time And Space Like A Red Dress Fall Away [17 May 2008|09:51pm]

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We set the sky on fire that day.

What is the mystery of her flesh? Three times I have seen her made into a Goddess (twice I have made her thus!). Pomba Gira. Lilith. Elise.

Elise was flesh but Goddess all the same. I made that picture from memory, three parts divinity to one part likeness. She was a perfect mess, ruined and disturbed; finding too much comfort in KMFDM. Drug addled questionable judgement wrapped in perfect brown flesh. She was my black pilgrimage and the Babalon waiting for me at Chorazin. But she was strength, and tenderness, and compassion. She was wisdom that only comes from mistakes. She broke herself just to love me and I? I loved her, with all of my heart and all of my soul, with every last pound of flesh. But now when I remember how I kissed her, how she kissed me, it makes me think of you.

So..

What is the mystery of your flesh? I have fashioned you into a Goddess and I have seen you fashion yourself the same. You hang from the sky like stars. Do you understand that in groups of three letters you are at long last learning how to spell your true name? Daughter of Babalaon this is not even a title, no it is just a metaphor, because like us you understand the sacred nature of burned out and abandoned places. Beaters for ceremonial robes and a Louisville slugger for a wand. Wild animals stalk cities and suburbs too and we are all red in tooth and claw. Your spirit feels like skin on meat on bone. Who feels this way? None, none now anyway, but you, so..What is the mystery of your flesh?

Do you taste like ripe fruit? Does your skin feel smooth like spun silk and desert sands? Could you keep me warm just by standing close? Would I know your smell by the way it tells me I'm in danger and at home all at once? Maybe it is your Isis stride? Are you strong like her? Could you ball up a fist to put me in my place? Could your dance make Kali blush? Mhm..your mystery is not hers but it is a metaphor like Daughter of Babalon.

We set the sky on fire that day. No. Look at me like these words were my eyes. Can you see it still? The way it smoulders? You remind me of my two years in The Garden, if any have eyes to see the dancing flames making love to cool and lazy clouds it is you.

A time comes soon when metaphors will fall away like burning veils. When mysteries manifest. Some will think me a fool (and how perceptive if they do) but part of me expects worlds to end the day I finally touch you. The moment you finally touch me. When I held Julia time opened up like a blossom, with all the violence and mystery of a thunder storm. When I loved Elise the world cracked and Dark angels stood among us. Two Years in Kadem, payment for services rendered, but I am not though, not by a long shot. My roots go back a long way, back to mother nature's mother, grandma kaos.

KAirOS prepares the way. Feast like Nephilim, and you know..

We'll set the sky on fire that day.
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Fridgery. [18 May 2008|12:39am]

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Girls go Wild....For Cthulhu! [17 May 2008|11:10pm]

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Jabba, the merciful [17 May 2008|11:09pm]

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Tropical storm Halong lashes northern Philippines: officials (AFP) [18 May 2008|04:45am]
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Rescuers are seen pushing their jeep through a street submerged by floodwaters in Iloilo City, central Philippines, on May 15. Tropical storm Halong battered the northern Philippines on Sunday with powerful winds triggering floods and landslides and displacing about 6,000 people, relief officials said.(AFP/File/Tara Yap)AFP - Tropical storm Halong battered the northern Philippines on Sunday with powerful winds triggering floods and landslides and displacing about 6,000 people, relief officials said.


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Sexism and Misogyny [18 May 2008|02:53am]
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I think the topic of sexism and misogyny is important and interesting, especially in the context of the presidential race. But I think there is a lot of sloppy and aimless discussion going on, too. It pays to lay out some different areas of focus and to try to analyze the issue in a compartmentalized way. For example, a central premise of the Clinton camp is that antipathy for Clinton's candidacy is driven in large part by antipathy for women. That antipathy can be of the mild sexist variety or the hard misogynistic variety, but it's a factor. We should make a distinction between lazy sexism and hard misogyny, and we should also make some effort to decide whether these factors were in any way decisive factors in the failure of her campaign. We should also distinguish between the sexism and misogyny in the traditional media. And we should ask how that may have influenced the outcome. And when discussing the blogosphere, we should distinguish between the front-pages and the diarists, and between the front-pages and the comment sections. We should also take note of which bloggers permitted sexist and misogynistic comments and which bloggers made efforts to discourage or punish them. And a last topic is whether the blogosphere was sufficiently active in condemning examples of sexism and misogyny that came up in the traditional media. On this last point, I remember approving of the suspension of David Shuster when he said that the Clintons were 'pimping out' their daughter. But I don't really remember having much else to say about sexism in the traditional media. My consumption of cable news is sporadic at best, and I let Media Matters and Crooks & Liars, and other video based bloggers do most of the work on watchdogging those programs. I'm a more print based consumer and critic. But I probably didn't do enough to speak up about some of sexist things people were writing in the newspapers. Having said that, I spoke up and condemned any sexist language I noticed on this blog. I know other bloggers made no such efforts. My overall view is that Hillary Clinton succeeded in convincing the American people that she was the presumptive frontrunner, which means that people were able to picture a woman president without much resistance. That frontrunner status was so ingrained that I think it actually hurt her campaign, as people rejected a coronation. Meanwhile, the black community displayed a lot of resistance to the idea of a black president. This was evidenced by the slowness with which they rallied around Obama. Prior to his victory in the overwhelmingly white state of Iowa, the polls showed Clinton running even or ahead among blacks in South Carolina. In other words, Obama had a harder time getting people to accept the idea of a black president than Clinton had getting people to accept the idea of a female president. The Clintons have consistently tried to convince people that a black man is unelectable (whether they sincerely believe it or not), while the Obama campaign has never to my knowledge tried to convince people that a woman is unelectable. The Clinton campaign has used a million and one excuses for their losses, including that certain states have too many black people in them. The Obama campaign did not make the converse argument to explain why they lost any states until West Virginia. I don't think there is any comparison between the two candidacies in terms of who was willing to employ identity politics. The traditional media has been more of a mixed bag. There has been plenty of overtly sexist language and very little overtly racist language. But, at the same time, the media saturated the airwaves for over a month with Reverend Wright outtakes. What was that other than an effort to test whether a black man can be elected in this country? On balance, a few sexist comments did much less damage than an effort to vilify the black church and crucify Obama by proxy. I haven't seen a single example of a high profile blogger in the left-wing blogosphere using overtly sexist language, let alone misogynistic language. But there have been examples of racist language. So, on the whole, I do not think the case has been proven that Clinton suffered more for her gender than Obama suffered for his mixed race. And I see no convincing evidence that sexism played a big part, and certainly not a decisive part in her losses. In fact, I think her gender is probably the main thing sustaining the high level of support she currently has. I don't think Chris Dodd or Joe Biden would still be getting donations and votes if they were facing the same math as Clinton has been facing for the last three months. Those are my thoughts on the matter. What are yours?
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We yield the floor to Keith Olbermann [17 May 2008|06:50pm]
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Hat tip to James MacLean.

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As usual you have to throw away the first few answers [17 May 2008|06:41pm]
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Originally posted: May 12, 2008
What do whites fear about blacks?

Chicagoan Edward G. wants to know: What do Caucasians fear most about African Americans?

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The answers are posted newest to oldest.

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Herc's in ur pantheon, killin ur godz... [17 May 2008|10:27pm]

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A gift to McCain so he knows WHY he sounds stupid [17 May 2008|06:16pm]
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And incidentally:

GDP growth is hardly the only indication of a move away from U.S. economic dominance. The rise of sovereign wealth funds -- in countries such as China, Kuwait, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates -- is another. These government-controlled pools of wealth, mostly the result of oil and gas exports, now total some $3 trillion. They are growing at a projected rate of $1 trillion a year and are an increasingly important source of liquidity for U.S. firms.

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This, not handing it over to people who already have so much money they could never spend it all, is what we should have done with our budget surpluses. AFTER paying back all our national debt. But noooo...

The Age of Nonpolarity
What Will Follow U.S. Dominance
By Richard N. Haass
From Foreign Affairs , May/June 2008

Summary: The United States' unipolar moment is over. International relations in the twenty-first century will be defined by nonpolarity. Power will be diffuse rather than concentrated, and the decline as that of nonstate actors increases. But this is not all bad news for the United States; Washington can still manage the transition and make the world a safer place.

RICHARD N. HAASS is President of the Council on Foreign Relations.

The principal characteristic of twenty-first-century international relations is turning out to be nonpolarity: a world dominated not by one or two or even several states but rather by dozens of actors possessing and exercising various kinds of power. This represents a tectonic shift from the past.

The twentieth century started out distinctly multipolar. But after almost 50 years, two world wars, and many smaller conflicts, a bipolar system emerged. Then, with the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union, bipolarity gave way to unipolarity -- an international system dominated by one power, in this case the United States. But today power is diffuse, and the onset of nonpolarity raises a number of important questions. How does nonpolarity differ from other forms of international order? How and why did it materialize? What are its likely consequences? And how should the United States respond?

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Every word out of McCain's mouth is undefined [17 May 2008|06:08pm]
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The nature of reality isn't alsways what you think it is [17 May 2008|03:51pm]
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The problem isn't as simple as Bush is [17 May 2008|03:50pm]
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President Bush Calls for More Oil Exploration at Home
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt — President Bush said Saturday that Saudi Arabia’s decision to boost oil production by 300,000 barrels a day is “something, but it doesn’t solve our problem,” and he called again on Congress to approve legislation allowing more oil exploration at home.

Thomas Lippman of the Middle East Institute explains why he's right that it won't solve out problem, but is alos wrong because domestic exploration won't solve it either.

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Confused? Let me give you a hand [17 May 2008|03:46pm]
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The New York Times says Saudis Rebuff Bush, Politely, on Pumping More Oil. The Washington Times says Saudis increase oil production. Thomas Lippman of the Middle East Institute explains what happened.

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