OK, I’m still loving MT and all, but let me tell you: The learning curve is a bit steep. But after reloading the site from scratch for the third time, I think I’m finally where I want to be for a while. The four posts previous to this one were manually cut-and-pasted back into MT, […]
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Suffering Asian People
That’s the real meaning of the World Bank’s SAPs. Have a look at The Whirled Bank, a very well done parody of my least favorite lending institution. From Sassafrass by way of this Metafilter thread. Inside the Whirled Bank site, they have a surprising speech byHerman Daly, a former WB chairman, in which he quotes […]
Path of the Paddle
Ikram Saeed from Canada keeps a blog called Path of the Paddle. If you’ve got the war on your mind, but you can’t take anymore news, check out his peice on war poetry. He’s pulled together a lot of good stuff, including poetic Rumsfeld declamations. He asks, Why isn’t there famous modern English language war […]
Jew Huggers
Check out this new online magazine, the Muslim WakeUp. I stumbled across it thanks to AltMuslim, with whom it shares some contributors. It’s a riot. Far and away the best thing in it is the Hug-a-Jew column, where MWU staff interview and hug noteworthy Jews. I also liked the article The Islaam of Double Vowels […]
Unqualified Offerings
I had seen Jim Henley’s site in other people’s blogrolls and loved the name. It’s one thing I can’t manage to do, to present an unqualified offering. Writing for the web on any subject at all can be paralyzing when you consider everybody who could possibly stumble on your site. So I find myself qualifying […]
Zack’s Blog
Zack of Procrastination backs up my assertion about wahhabism and discontented youth and adds some of his own thoughts. He calls them “born-agains”, which made me chuckle. I spent my junior year in high school carpooling with a born-again kid big on christian rock. OK, I’m not mocking the faith. Or the sincerity. I’m mocking […]
Autism and Vaccination: Who’s a Crackpot Now?
I haven’t written here before on this pet issue of mine, though I’ve talked to folks at AltMuslim and Metafilter about it. Anyway, routine infant vaccination has a lot of critics, and the loudest of them are those who feel the national vaccination program has resulted in the epidemic of autism in this country. This […]
NetLex, a French speaker, and
NetLex, a French speaker, and Cinderella are vibing on France and Poland in connection with the Polish Tatars. It starts to be a bit obscure for me, but NetLex did dig up a few more links of note: Planetaislam: Islam in Poland The Tatar Gazette: A Brief History of the Tatar People