Jareducation

What’s really sad is it never got weird enough for me. . . Lazlo and Nixon are both gone now, but I don’t think I’m going to believe that ’til I can gnaw on their skulls with my very own teeth. . . If they’re out there, I’m going to find them, and I’m going to gnaw on their skulls. Because it still hasn’t gotten weird enough for me. - Hunter S. Thompson

The best single line on terrorism

Yifat Susskind argues that India should not respond to the Mumbai attacks like the U.S. did to 9/11, but it is likely to. In his article today on Common Dreams, Susskind writes the single best line I have yet to read or hear about terrorism.
Terrorist attacks are not acts of war to be responded to [...]

Forget the “contextualist” part

My use of the phrase “Failure of American Democracy” was too narrow-minded. I am listening to Robert Gates talk about staying on to the Obama team. My thinking rested on the simple idea that Obama’s pick do not reflect the will of the electorate. People voted for change and are getting a recycled version of [...]

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Jared Marchildon aspires to be a foreign correspondent. He produces radio news stories for KPFA 94.1 in Berkeley. Taking photographs removes him from this world and gives him a third eye. He has a problem with buying books, cooks rabidly, and replaced his car with a road bike. You can reach him at: jared@jareducation.com.

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