Monthly Archives: May 2010

The Logick of Kings

31st
May. × ’10
By Roderick

The Israeli government explains that it had to kill innocent people because they defended themselves when attacked.

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Fun With Mommy

31st
May. × ’10
By Roderick

Last night I watched, on and off, most of a 1928 John Ford silent movie called Four Sons. It wasn’t a great movie (it’s gaggingly sentimental, for one thing), but it was surprisingly anti-war and anti-government for a Memorial Day movie. It’s about an elderly Bavarian woman whose four sons all go off to fight [...]

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War and Remembrance

30th
May. × ’10
By Roderick

There are two ways to think about Memorial Day. We could think about it as a day to celebrate the state and its wars. Most Americans do seem to regard it as a pro-war holiday; the other day I actually heard someone on tv saying, in reference to the three-day holiday, “Thank a veteran for [...]

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Droning On

30th
May. × ’10
By Roderick

Oops! British Petroleum sends its flunkies to the Gulf of Mexico to carry out a dangerous and ill-conceived project without adequate safeguards, and a disaster results that claims eleven lives. British Petroleum gets a stern lecture from our President Incarnate. Oops! Our President Incarnate sends his flunkies to Afghanistan to carry out a dangerous and [...]

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Cracks in Time

30th
May. × ’10
By Roderick

For anyone who’s been watching Doctor Who on BBC America – there are, I believe, minor cuts that are made in the American broadcasts (do we still use the word “broadcasts” for cable? or is it “transmissions”?) by comparison with the British ones; but for this season’s opener, “The Eleventh Hour,” there were major cuts, [...]

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State Backs Off

29th
May. × ’10
By Roderick

Good news – as far as it goes – for civil liberties in Malawi, as their president has (reluctantly) pardoned a same-sex couple, Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, who’d been sentenced to 14 years of prison for their role in the country’s “first recorded public activity for homosexuals.” The pressure of world opinion has obviously [...]

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