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  Free Fouad الحرية لفؤاد

  01.03.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  “In Saudi Arabia, there is no guarantee that you won’t be arrested because of your frankness and speaking your mind on your blog.” posted Fouad al-Farhan on his blog. He was correct.
  He has been detained by Saudi authorities for over 24 days.
  There is no power, we bloggers hold over states or royals. [...]

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  Franz Ferdinand’s Last Sigh

  01.02.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  The MSM’s take on Bhutto’s murder has inspired much wondering on the pages of Chapati Mystery–can they be talking about Benazir Bhutto? our readers ask. The corrupt thief of a billion American tax dollars meant for Pakistan’s infrastructure and military? The monarchical heir to power in a supposed democracy? The populist who claimed to speak [...]

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  The Newest Oldest Story III

  09.03.07 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  [see Part I of III and Part II of III]
  III. A Modest Proposal
  Many historians are reluctant to comment on the present if a question presented to them contains a categorical assumption about the past; it’s a little like suggesting a diagnosis to an MD–no matter what is wrong with you, it’s not going to be [...]

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  The Newest Oldest Story II

  08.31.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  [see Part I]
  II. I do not ♥ Baby Boomers
  Aldous Huxley called occult nature worship the “perennial religion,” because it is the default to which man returns when his gods desert him. It makes sense after all to appeal directly to the effects of nature, rather than their causes, when the chips are down.
  Our gods [...]

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  The Newest Oldest Story I

  08.30.07 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  [sepoy notes: A tip from a CM reader led me to Stargates in Iraq. Feeling inadequate to the task, I called a few favors and farangi is here to tell us the story.]
  How I Learned to Stop Worrying–about Humanity, Ganesh, Bill Moyers, Foreign Policy, and The Strange Life of Robert Anton Wilson–and Love the Apocalypse.
  Clarke’s [...]

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  A Man in His Time

  04.25.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I am vexed by a conversation today on Fresh Air about historian Robert Dallek’s new book Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power. I am vexed because I consider my perceptions of Nixon’s memory more positively than I do my present perceptions of 43. I’m a former movement conservative, and a fan of Hunter Thompson, which [...]