This is a real shocker. Steve Irwin, TV’s Crocodile Hunter, has died in a freak accident, while filming an underwater documentary off the coast of Cairns, Queensland, Australia. He was struck through the chest by the barb of a sting-ray and killed instantly. Our deepest sympathies to his wife Terry, and the couple’s children Bindi and Bob.
No core, no bedrock
September 3, 2006 – 10:58 am
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Glenn Greenwald on the hypocrisy of the chest-thumping war mongers. Just what are their values, exactly?
The blind spot of the Sensible Technocrat
September 3, 2006 – 9:43 am
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This is a very wise and important point that Atrios makes, and it’s a very hard truth to embrace. I absolutely believe that all of us have our blind spots, but it’s always hardest to understand your own. Yet it’s vital that we make an effort to understand it in order to win others to our point of view. Too many of us on the left side of the blogosphere suffer from this particular malady.
I’m conducting a war for peace…
September 3, 2006 – 9:35 am
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From Digby. This is chilling… apalling… maddening… choose your adjective. “The government is actually spending money doing simulations of potential terrorist attacks by peace activists.”
