Gideon Levy is the most hated man in Israel – and perhaps the most heroic. This “good Tel Aviv boy” – a sober, serious child of the Jewish state – has been shot at repeatedly by the Israeli Defence Force, been threatened with being “beaten to a pulp” on the country’s streets, and faced demands from government ministers that he be tightly monitored as “a security risk.” This is because he has done something very simple, and something that almost no other Israeli has done. Nearly every week for three decades, he has travelled to the Occupied Territories and described what he sees, plainly and without propaganda. “My modest mission,” he says, “is to prevent a situation in which many Israelis will be able to say, ‘We didn’t know.’” And for that, many people want him silenced.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Is Gideon Levy the most hated man in Israel or just the most heroic? - Middle East, World - The Independent
Cursebird: What the f#@! is everyone swearing about?
Stats for the last 28 days
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Monday, September 27, 2010
Atheists Outdo Some Believers in Survey on Religion - NYTimes.com
Americans surveyed on their religious knowledge got half the questions wrong, including ones about their own faith.
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
North and South Korea on the brink of war, Russian diplomat warns - Telegraph
North and South Korea are on the brink of war, a top Russian diplomat has warned, calling for both countries to exercise restraint and sit down for talks.
via telegraph.co.uk
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Mexico Killed In Drug Deal | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
MEXICO CITY—In the latest incident of drug-related violence to hit the country, all 111 million citizens of Mexico were killed Monday during a shoot-out between rival drug cartels.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Joe. My. God.: "All Faggots Must Die"
"All Faggots Must Die"
The above comment was left today by "Jimmy" on my post about the DADT cloture vote. The IP address *appears* to resolve to the neighborhood of GOP U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss' Atlanta office. The ISP is "United States Senate." I'm confident that the JMG internet sleuths can get to the source.
Here's the IP: 156.33.20.72. Get busy, geeks!
UPDATE: According to a friend of JMG reader Sean Chapin, the comment appears to have actually come from the Atlanta office of Sen. Johnny Isakson, the OTHER Republican Senator in Georgia, whose offices are not far from Sen. Chambliss'. Dennis writes:
"First I did a WHOIS lookup on the address and found out that it belonged to the US Senate. Then I did a trace on the IP and got the latitude, longitude and city location for the IP. Once I had the city, I did a search on senate offices and started with the one that came out on top which was Isakson’s. Once I had the address of his office, I pulled up the latitude and longitude info for it and found that it matched those of the IP."Examine Dennis' screenshots below and tell us if you think he's got this nailed.
UPDATE II: OK, this is getting really interesting. According to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, the offices Chambliss and Ikason are in the same building in Atlanta. The paper has called both offices looking for comment.Labels: Georgia, hate speech, JMG, Senate
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Swans' Past Commentaries: Litany for Dictatorships, a poem by Stephen Vincent Benet - zig053
Litany for Dictatorships
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Ian Bogost - Me in Playboy
Playboy runs a "top professors" feature in their annual college issue, and I am fortunate to be one of the twenty profs baring my intellectual gifts in the October issue, even if in brief (not in briefs though).
The rest, I'm afraid, will have to be left to your imagination.
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
Billion-Year Old "Black Widow" Pulsar Ripping Through Milky Way at 1 Million KPH (Weekend Most Popular)
The "Black Widow" pulsar is zipping through the galaxy at a speed of almost a million kilometers per hour. A bow shock wave due to this motion is visible to optical telescopes, shown in this image as the greenish crescent...
via dailygalaxy.com
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Behold the Bacon Log
This is an instructable on how to make the all-famous bacon log. Bow in its presence. I have no personal pictures, but this was made at a friends par...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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