Cartesian dreams fade in the face of the complexities of biology.
Author: Ophelia Benson
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Rushdie Disgusted Ministers Did Nothing
‘Bookshops and theatres are full of things that would upset an interest group.’
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Gurharpal Singh on the Real Losers from Behzti
This is a multiculturalism which promotes religion and stifles dissent.
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Susan Sontag in the Times
Stanley Aronowitz called her ‘the critic as star’; Sontag was ambivalent about this status.
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Sontag in the New York Times
Arthur Danto: ‘she dealt as a literary and philosophical intellectual with the deep problems of human life in our times.’
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Death Toll at 12,300
Officials in LA tried to warn of tsunami; 15 minute walk would have meant safety.
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Popularity at School: the Hardest Work There Is
Smart kids don’t have time or attention for it; whence the nerd.
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Disaster? What Disaster? Hey, What’s the Score?
Well happy Boxing Day. Nothing like a gigantic global disaster to perk things up.
I’ve just been ranting at Crooked Timber about the bizarre shortage of coverage on US television. Silly me, I thought that what with the number of countries affected, the vast geographic sweep from Somalia to Indonesia, picking up the Maldives, southern India, Bangladesh, Burma, and Thailand on the way, and the immense number of people known killed already which is sure to rise astronomically once the counting gets going – that even here in the notoriously uninterested provincial triviality-obsessed US, people would be mildly interested. But if they are, you would never know it from looking at tv news. India and Indonesia might as well be orbiting Zeta Reticuli. They might as well be a few billion light years away as opposed to a few thousand miles. Ho hum. Well hey, there’s snow in North Carolina today, so that needs a few minutes of air time too, along with this pesky little tsunami-thing over in Asia or Nepal or wherever it is. Have another beer.
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MMR Parents Get Legal Aid to Sue Drug Companies
Plunge in vaccination rates for children, measles epidemic feared.
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Tsunami in Asia Kills More Than 7000
World’s strongest earthquake in 40 years generates a wall of water.
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More Than 2000 Killed in South India
Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh on southern coast hit by massive waves.
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Death Toll Expected to Rise Sharply
The wave swept all settlements on the coast in northern Aceh province.