Hi all, I’ll be out the next few weeks to finish up school, but I’ll return in the New Year. In the meantime, Michael Berger will be taking over for me on Sundays. He’s a good guy, that Michael Berger.
Erik Prince, “head of Blackwater” and “a participant in the C.I.A. assassination program,” is still the scariest human being in the world, no matter how much he thinks this interview will help his image. (If I disappear after publishing that sentence, cherished readers, please send someone in to rescue me. Bring guns.)
Photos of the of the Gwich’in “caribou people” — a culture that may go the way of the ice caps.
The Brits are going to start giving unemployed people free therapy. Clearly, that will fix everything.
A very thoughtful essay on policies that could do a lot more to stop genocide.
The artist Katie Paterson went to Iceland and recorded melting glaciers using three records made of ice. Then she played all the records simultaneously until they melted. Listen to it here. It made me have to pee. (via)
Zizek’s new book First as Tragedy, Then as Farce sounds like quite a change for him, maybe for the better. Here’s a review at Sp!ked.
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Prince is far from the scariest man in the world.
Prince is a dedicated, willful, man who’s morality is alien to most of us, and therefore easily regarded as scary. He’s not, really. Just be glad he’s an American, and not a Nigerian, or a Somalian. As such he is, relatively, harmless in his position. He is also a kept man, thanks to his primary loyalties, and not a free-agent. A few planned assassinations of people with a naturally short life expectancy is not what makes someone scary. Free agency, the resources to create billions worth of damage, or the ability to risk billions in winner take all bets and have it backed by the coffers of pliant nation-states, these are the things that make truly scary people.
The world is full of SuperEmpowered individuals who make Prince look like a little kid with a sand castle and Tonka toys. Some of those people also have great control over things that affect the world on a much broader scale than the “dark” Prince. They are truly dangerous… Not merely wealthy and well armed.
Scary is men like Henry Okah, of MEND. Or, any of the economic top 1%, really.
Prince is an overgrown trigger puller; Always has been, and always will be, a tool of the truly scary.
Not saying he’s a nice guy. Just saying, he doesn’t hold a candle to scary.
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