This is not okay
The Monologuist: This is not okay, via This isn’t happiness.
Posts in Category ‘General’
A Preliminary Atlas of Drone Strike Landscapes
It is difficult to describe a drone strike accurately. On October 24, 2012, Bibi Mamana and her grandchildren were gathering firewood or picking okra outside their home. They may have been in a field. Perhaps it was a militant compound … Read more →
Merci, Olivier
Rentrer de ma promenade photo matinale pour découvrir, perdu entre les factures et les pubs, une boite de chocolats suisse envoyée par un lecteur du blog, c’est plutôt sympabon — un très grand merci à Olivier pour ce savoureux cadeau … Read more →
Pour faire suite au Bad Dream
As a follow up to the previous post, a very interesting talk from Eric X. Li : A tale of two political systems — thank you Richard, for the link. Democraty is becoming a perpetual cycle of elect and regret. … Read more →
A Bad Dream
Democracy is a rather crap form of government, with several failure modes (of which the tendency to converge on an oligarchy is but one), but it has one huge advantage over other forms of government: it provides a mechanism for … Read more →