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Book review: Darwinia
Reviewed: Friday, August 11, 2006
Summer reading: Spin
Reviewed: Saturday, August 5, 2006
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July Fourth in America
Monday, July 3, 2006
With apologies in advance for the politics... Howard Zinn says it for me:
On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.
There's probably a bad joke here about Lisp being marginalized and America becoming increasingly marginalized -- or something -- but I don't want to think that hard.
... nationalism is given a special virulence when it is said to be blessed by Providence. Today we have a president, invading two countries in four years, who announced on the campaign trail last year that God speaks through him.
We need to refute the idea that our nation is different from, morally superior to, the other imperial powers of world history.
We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
Transparency. Openness. Aim for the heights. Think the best of people. Do good and be nice.
keep peace.
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