Daily Chosun continues to astound with analysis: When Girls Want Sex
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February 2006
From two links gathered over the last two days. One Jain. One Shi’a. In eternal mourning or eternal celebration, faith is an achingly beautiful thing.
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My readers are such lovely people. They know that I am just goofing off under the pretense of being busy. So, they do not hesitate to ask of me what they want. Here is gentle reader, Jeff: Dear Mystery Man, I see from CM that you are (a) hip and (b) someone who appreciates music. [...]
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If there is one news story that can make me write 10 blog posts [and a dissertation]…that story is Kabul objects to Pakistani missile names. All of you can thank your lucky stars that I am too damn busy.
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This = very bad. No, really. V.E.R.Y. B.A.D.
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“Cricket as Art”. An amazing Radio 3 presentation by Darkus Howe on CLR James and Cricket. Must listen. [via CT]. There is a gorgeous paragraph in Beyond the Boundary that I can merely echo: Our house was superbly situated, exactly behind the wicket. I doubt it for some years I knew what I was looking [...]
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On this day in 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated. Slate has a wonderful collection of photos. You can also listen to his speeches and see more pictures. I also recommend Brother Minister.
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[haris]chandra writes about our berkeley conference. I wholeheartedly agree – in principle.
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What is needed now are new ideas, neither neoconservative nor realist, for how America is to relate to the rest of the world…Francis Fukuyama wonders for whom the bell tolls.
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Hers, after all, is a remarkable chapter in the history of Muslims in Britain and the West.
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These cartoons are a riot. Great work!
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Danial reports that there was at least one peaceful protest against the rise in greenhouse gases despite Kyoto in Karachi today. We are all concerned about global warming.
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I am off to Berkeley for the next few days and the weekend. I am on a panel with some soon-to-be-illustrious names of South Asia studies. My intention is to keep the conversation to the plebian level. I also intend on finishing the paper. Ahem. Also next week, our own conference at Chicago, begins. And [...]
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The history that such nationalists would impose upon students is invariably a sanitized one, cleansed of unpleasant facts about systematic forms of discrimination and exploitation which are as much a part of human history as the aspiration for freedom and liberation from oppression. Vinay Lal’s letter on the California history textbook/Hinduism issue. Do read.
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Danial has a post w/ pics of violent mobs in Lahore protesting the two recent losses of Pakistani cricket team to India. Very sad.
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Horowitz has a new book called The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. Martin Kramer highlights the Middle East Studies fellows. Poor Ihsan Bagby.
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Dahlia Lithwick on the Moussaoui trial. I have had a lil’ intellectual crush on Dahlia for a while, I confess now.
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Google helps read the historical archive. the Manuscript kind.
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Your Daily Chosun Link o’ da Moment: Erotic Art Reflects Conservative Korea’s Passionate Side .
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Stuff that nightmares are made of…justice at gitmo [via ralph]
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