Archive for August, 2005

The Persian Danes

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

Hot on the heels of the Danes’ “sexual health is a human right” debate, our friends in the Persian Gulf have returned to an earlier justification of the State’s telos without resorting to a rights-based argument; rather, it recalls a notion of justice. Justice, however, is far and away a lofty ideal and the long [...]

Horny is the new disability

Monday, August 29th, 2005

I love the Danes. While all about are losing theirs, our friendly friends from frosty fields find themselves in a bit of a pickle. The Copenhagen Post reports:
The Social Democrats criticise official guidelines that instruct health care workers to assist disabled people to contact prostitutes. The opposition party’s MP and equal opportunities spokesman Kirsten Brosbøl [...]

intelligent design

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

The little one has been busy working on the site. Moved by cajoles, strained by a lack of nicotine and forcefully driven to the arms of unsociability, what’s left of my self is found here.
Little of the old site remains, and what remains has been re-cast in alternative form, in part as a response [...]

New sites

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

Domain names they should have thought of:
Internet Directory of International On-line Travel Services (www.idiots.com)

What is terrorism?

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

Someone good-hearted, and thus ever-so-naive, thought of the wonders he could achieve - presumably to provoke the UN to action - if only the International Community could agree upon a working definition of “terrorism”. He offered:
“Terrorism is the deliberate targeting by an individual, a group of people or a state of non-combatant civilians with an [...]

How much is enough?

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

As if to recall the strained dialouge in some hammy B-movie, I am reined in by a Technorati report which claims that a blog (much like that which faces you) is created every time a cesium-133 atom performs 9,192,631,770 complete oscillations - otherwise known as a “second”.
Seriously though, how much is enough? Are there really [...]

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