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Humorous and entertaining, but hopefully enlightening, posts to start off each new week.
COUNTER-COUNTERINSURGENCY: You’ve heard the criticisms. You’ve read the book. Now see the movie. These are some of my favourite lines: counterinsurgency: it’s like a wild horse, only you bet on it; counterinsurgency involves a thousand small healing steps; the manual can never be wrong, only the practice; cultural knowledge for the military: it’s so basic […]
Read More…Finally, something we have been all searching for, thinking that no entrepreneurs out there could ever really understand us and our special policy-making needs. It took a McPhee to recognize the hidden McFate in all of us. Without further ado, here it is, in all its glory, the one and only Great Ideas NAPKIN Sketchbook! […]
Read More…Another installment of Monday Morning Madness takes us to Sugar Sammy, an Indo-Canadian stand-up comedian who offers a narrative that is dripping with racial, ethnic and gender jokes, directed against Indians, and virtually every other major ethnic group in North America. Thanks to UK-based Trinidadian blogger, Jumbie’s Watch, for drawing my attention to these videos. […]
Read More…After an absence of more than three months, it is time for another installment of Monday Morning Madness. The idea of “translating” another language into your own, by assuming that words that sound the same as words in your language are the same, is not a surprising one — the results can be disastrous, or […]
Read More…A bit early for this blog’s “Monday Morning Madness” series, and surely this will be only one among millions of blogs to carry this video, an event that was virtually made for blog consumption. Is this evidence that there has been a drastic drop in the supply of hand grenades in Baghdad? Watch this poor […]
Read More…Some media are calling these “riots” by “extremists,” while others insist on speaking of “self-styled anarchists” (as opposed to officially incorporated and state-recognized anarchists?) — I prefer to see these events as a transnational festival of insurgence that targets some of those insititutions that embody and breed violence locally and internationally: the police, the state, […]
Read More…Anti-Globalization? What Madness Is This? John Jarratt in Wolf Creek (Australia) This is true Monday Morning Madness, though I never expected to start anyone’s Monday off with a dosage of horror, or as I argue here, the Western elites’ perceived horrors of anti-globalization and resentful localisms. Nowhere, I think, is this sentiment best captured than […]
Read More…The latest installment of Monday Morning Madness, and very appropriate at present. Quite by accident I came across this melodic, lovely composition that struck me as a cross between an anarchist anthem and an anarchist lullaby. The artist behind it is Jarvis Cocker (Wikipedia page, MySpace page). Once more we see the non-academic, independent usage […]
Read More…I am very grateful for the efforts of many Americans who have tried to make this a much more interesting election than it really should be. Marshall Sahlins should be delighted to see two of his most favoured concepts, continuity and change, appear with such regular emphasis in the campaign narratives. I suspect that a […]
Read More…Another installment of Monday Morning Madness, featuring three short comical videos dealing with the U.S. elections that are about to conclude — finally, at long last. The last video might add some perspective to these elections. No matter who wins, I worry. In the meantime, a few more laughs: Montreal’s involvement in the U.S. elections: […]
Read More…I wish I had seen this sooner — a brilliant political remix video over at deathpower, well worth watching: When Game Show Audiences Appear More Informed Than the US Electorate
Read More…I have no “Monday Morning Madness” post of my own today — there was far too much madness to go around and I could not settle on a choice. Trust me, I tried, but between Alan Greenspan saying he was “partially wrong” and there was “a flaw” in his ideology (testifying in the Waxman House […]
Read More…“Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon… . Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is, obviously, a programme of complete disorder… . In the colonies it is the policeman and the soldier who are the official, instituted go-betweens… . Non Violence is an attempt to settle the colonial problem around a […]
Read More…Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain, And all the children are insane.
Read More…“Oh stop your complaining,” as a “recession” (read: depression) starts to work its way in, as stock markets fell the day the bailout bill was passed, as a day after the mainstream media finally started to admit the bailout would do little since root causes were not addressed (“Root causes? We’re Americans. We don’t do […]
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