So long, Pol Pot.

by Pete on August 30, 2006

I finally finished Phillip Short’s bio of Pol Pot. The end was somewhat unsatisfying, in that it seemed to rush through the last fifteen years of Pol’s life and then trail off. However, since Pol’s life (and that of his (…)

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Meanwhile, in Nerdtown…

by Pete on August 29, 2006

It’s been a while since I have descended into the realms of Linux nerdiness, but seeing as how I have now been running Ubuntu exclusively for going on three months, I figure it’s about time. My server at home has (…)

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They were for local control before they were against it.

by Pete on August 28, 2006

While at the gym this evening, I caught a brief clip on CNN of former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card discussing the President’s response to Hurricane Katrina (yes, that’s right, I’m on a Katrina jag this week). I’m (…)

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I told you so.

by Pete on August 28, 2006

In an article this morning titled “Year After Katrina, Bush Still Fights for 9/11 Image,” the New York Times examines the continuing impact of the Bush administration’s “bungled” (read “completely incompetent”) response to Hurricane Katrina on the President’s popularity: If (…)

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When the old stuff is still good

by Pete on August 27, 2006

In keeping with the aforementioned filling in of my music back catalog, I recently got a bunch of old Front Line Assembly albums, including what I have always thought was their best outing, 1991′s Caustic Grip. I originally taped Caustic (…)

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When the Levees Broke

by Pete on August 25, 2006

I started watching the first two acts of Spike Lee’s Hurricane Katrina documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts last night. While I only got to the end of the Act I (due to it being past (…)

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Lack of links

by Pete on August 24, 2006

Observant visitors to this site may have noticed a distanct absence of hyperlinks from posts over the last few weeks. I’m still poking around to figure out exactly what is causing the problem, but any posts that contain a hyperlink (…)

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Music update

by Pete on August 23, 2006

It has been a relatively slow couple of weeks for actual new music (as opposed to “new to me”)—I picked up the new albums by Slayer, Mastodon, and the Black Keys, as well as Be Your Own Pet, but that’s (…)

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Conservative culture

by Pete on August 22, 2006

I was reading a recent article by Rick Perlstein entitled “What Is Conservative Culture?” Originally published in The New Republic, you can find it now over at Design Observer (www.designobserver.com) under “Recent Entries.” Perlstein is the author of the excellent (…)

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Dirty laundry

by Pete on August 21, 2006

Perhaps I have lost my tolerance for cable news channels over the last few years, but I can’t help but be astounded by the sheer volume of coverage devoted to the story of this guy who has confessed to killing (…)

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