International Law

?Misadventures in logical reasoning?

Posted on March 12, 2008
Another devastating piece from Glenn Greenwald, this time on the Spitzer affair: All decent people agree that what Eliot Spitzer did is repulsive, morally disgusting and totally nauseating — which is why it’s so important to learn about and report on every last titillating detail about what he did, the kind of sex he had, with [...

More Troubling Views about John McCain

Posted on March 11, 2008
The more I hear about John McCain the less I like what I hear. The most recent instalment came from Bill Moyers Journal, which had two segments on its March 7 show. The first, on Christians United for Israel and its leader, John Hagee, frankly alarmed the heck out of me...

Is the Spitzer Prosecution a Political Hit by the Bush Justice Dept?

Posted on March 11, 2008
Horton, Hamsher and Greenwald are now wondering. But as Greenwald notes, this question won’t get any attention until after the ’sphere has finished amusing itself with titillation details. And don’t expect the MSM to focus any time soon on a narrative that isn’t salacious and puerile.

?The ?Nuclear Disaster? At SXSW?

Posted on March 11, 2008
It was quite a scene yesterday, watching the ’sphere go wild tearing apart yet another body. No, not that body, this one. It seemed obvious from the outset that lots of people weren’t going to have their finest hours, and besides - who cares? - so I just shut the whole thing off...

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?You are now free to do what you can do?

Posted on March 09, 2008
Samantha Power’s 2006 commencement speech at Santa Clara University Law School is inspiring and quite moving, but also a slap in the face. This woman has done so much, and could so so much more. I hope she doesn’t spend too long in the penalty box.

?Blogger journalists make mainline journalists look bad, and they know it?

Posted on March 09, 2008
An exceptional comment on Glenn Greenwald’s exceptional post about Monster-gate and off-the-record comments. Glennzilla’s post is now updated, including with this depressingly accurate precis of where we are on MSM political reporting: Even after the lead-up to Iraq War, eight years of the Bush administration, the Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch fiascoes and an [...

But he started it!!

Posted on March 09, 2008
Incidentally, the problem with the Iraq War is that Iraq didn’t get enough of Douglas Feith.

?The red phone rang and rang and rang again?

Posted on March 08, 2008
Surprisingly, amid all the mindlessness of the MSM’s coverage of Monster-gate, little is being said of Power’s work reporting on the Clinton administration’s blind eye towards the Rwandan genocide. The ’sphere to the rescue. I’ve never thought Bill Clinton should be singled out for exclusive responsibility (I’m not suggesting that Power did this) [...

?I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland?

Posted on March 08, 2008
Oh, me, too.

Gerald Keddy is a Victim

Posted on March 07, 2008
Just to be clear, Gerald Keddy is a victim, and we should all admire his courage. No idiot, this man. Certainly not an adolescent, and certainly not over-employed. No, a victim, and really, just a marvel of a man and a splendid person.

And OJ is still hunting for Nicole?s killer

Posted on March 05, 2008
Canada says leak was blatantly unfair to Obama

Prime Minister, answer the damned question

Posted on March 04, 2008
Yes, exactly.

George Carlin: The Last Honest Man

Posted on March 03, 2008
I discovered him when I was 11 or 12 - a friend’s older sister had his records (as well as every Beatles album) and we spent hours in the basement listening to every single riff, learning them all and repeating them back to each other over and over again...

?As Far as I Know?

Posted on March 03, 2008
Senator Clinton on the Muslim political smear on Senator Obama.

?Matalin Blames The Media?

Posted on March 02, 2008
It’s hilarious watching political operatives who use the media to propagandize ahead of an unnecessary war complain about unwelcome media attention. Nauseating, but hilarious.

?Online Scrabble Craze Leaves Game Sellers at Loss for Words?

Posted on March 02, 2008
Imagine that - old media companies at a loss to understand online. How … unexpected.

Tory Ideology, Art and Science

Posted on March 01, 2008
Every day brings fresh evidence that Harper is Shrub with fewer guns and no hat. Now, twice more with feeling: reason and art under assault by ideology.

?The thing a lot of nerds desire more than anything?

Posted on March 01, 2008
Mathew is bang on about TED of course.

How to sell a bazillion Mac Minis

Posted on March 01, 2008
Much has been written lately about using a Mac Mini as a media hub - I’m a big fan of the idea, partly because Front Row is such a lovely way to relive album art. But I’d love to extend the music elsewhere in our house, and it’s not easy to do this with [...

Toronto Fair Copyright Meetup

Posted on February 27, 2008
I spent yesterday evening at a meetup at the Gladstone’s Melody Bar for members of the Facebook group for the Toronto chapter of Fair Copyright. We had a nice turnout, and the evening was a great opportunity to engage with people who are concerned about copyright law and eager to learn more and connect with [...

Still, it?s pretty extraordinary ?

Posted on February 26, 2008
Indeed it is: Still, it’s pretty extraordinary that CNN — the most trusted name in news — would invite a high government official onto its news program to invoke his authority and claimed expertise to scare Americans into believing that we’re all going to be killed by Terrorists unless President Bush gets what he wants, [...

?F.C.C. to Act on Delaying of Broadband Traffic?

Posted on February 26, 2008
Net neutrality is back.

Just How Many More Troops Do We Need?

Posted on February 23, 2008
I’ve lost track. Is it a thousand? More? Or a lot more?

Turkey in Iraq

Posted on February 22, 2008
I can’t help but wonder whether Turkey has invaded Iraq only ostensibly to suppress PKK activity, and is actually motivated by fear that the Kosovar independence declaration will fuel Kurdish appetite for, and the legitimacy of, an independent state in Northern Iraq.

More Dishonesty from the Clinton Campaign

Posted on February 20, 2008
No other way to put it. Senator Clinton is mistaken if she thinks voters have disassociated her family name from mendacity and self-interest. They haven’t. And this will be a vivid reminder.

Why John McCain is Desperate to tie Obama to a Campaign Fundraising Pledge

Posted on February 20, 2008
Obvious, but there it is.

?Requiem for a TV News Career?

Posted on February 19, 2008
Chez Pazienza on the mediocrity formerly known as the Cable “News” Network: During my last couple of years as a television news producer, I watched the networks try to recover from a six year failure to bring truth to power (the political party in power being irrelevant incidentally; the job of the press is to maintain [...

?Olympic Bloggers Learn The Rules?

Posted on February 18, 2008
Mike on the IOC’s policy on athlete blogging. It still baffles me that control-freaks can’t learn anything about the Intarweb’s relentless immolation of media businesses that insist on retaining control. What a terrible shame that we can’t experience the unrestricted creativity of the world’s finest at the world’s best.

?Suicide Attack Kills 36 in Afghanistan?

Posted on February 18, 2008
Another day, another nightmare. In the second serious attack in southern Afghanistan in two days, a suicide bomber set off an explosion as he drove his car near a convoy of Canadian troops on Monday in a crowded street in the border town of Spin Boldak, killing 36 civilians and wounding 38...

?Watching Chicken Nuggets Disappear?

Posted on February 18, 2008
“Real Food for Real Kids” - the simple beauty of small acts of genius.

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