NEW YORK - THE MAYANS, NOSTRADAMUS, JELLO BIAFRA
Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:11:42 -0700
While dodging our moms’ phone calls urging us not to go out in public until they’ve figured out this whole swine flu doozy, we decided to investigate who may have predicted this spreading morass. And it turns out the prophet is...Jello Biafra. Maybe we’ve ribbed the guy in the past for his “politics," but we are not the type to demean a bona fide prescient being (um, plus he shows up in this season’s Soft Focus so we should probably chill on the merciless abuse). His song “Swine Flu” may have se
Worth reading
Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:08:00 -0700
Phillip Blom's The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914 is a delight. Here is how he sums up:The revolt of unreason was a revolt against modernity itself. It held the idea of an ancient and immutable essence of man against the unstable identities of city folk, it articulated itself in the male backlash against early feminism, in violence and the cult of manliness, in reactionary politics. But it
The Future of US-Saudi Relations: Energy & Peace Policy
Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:21:47 -0700
Yesterday's " U.S.-Saudi Relations in a World Without Equilibrium " event put on by the New America Foundation and the Saudi Committee for International Trade, highlighted mutual interests and new problems between America and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Saudi shepherded Arab Peace Initiative was highlighted throughout the event. Regardless of political stance or national patronage, all of the panelists spoke to the significance of this initiative and its mutual benefit to America and Sau
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