links for 2007-07-28

28Jul07

• Why It’s Hard to Admit to Being Wrong
  (tags: fascinating)
• Stop Trying To ‘Save’ Africa
  Hateful but somewhat right: “It seems that these days, wracked by guilt at the humanitarian crisis it has created in the Middle East, the West has turned to Africa for redemption.”
  (tags: world_politics aids)
• Aristotle’s Email – Or, Friendship In The Cyber Age
  Quotes Aristoltle’s typology of friendship.
  (tags: philosophy)
• Sexually perverted pharmaceutical company executives out to destroy the world
  Crazy. CRAZY.
  (tags: crazy uk_politics)
• Insane donor ‘rational to give to Tories’
  Crazy. CRAZY.
  (tags: uk_politics crazy)
• Quarante cinq minutes dans la peau d’un con
  “Demain, je fais réparer mon biclou. Après demain, j’achète un SUV et je pourris l’ozone.”
  (tags: french_society text)
• Les illusions de la « diversité »
  (tags: french_society french_politics)
• Remarques sur les attentats de Londres : le terrorisme comme fait social
  (tags: sociology terrorism)
• Jean Baudrillard chez Finkie
  C’est quand même un peu cruel de rediffuser des personnes mortes sans l’écrire nulle part !
  (tags: philosophy sociology radio)
• Trichopterae
  Duprat sculpte pour les insectes.
  (tags: art)
• Arthur Goldhammer on Michael Moore’s “Sicko”
  “Film, it seemed to me as I watched, is a powerful medium for presenting comparisons of “social models” in a form accessible to large numbers of people and therefore useful for enriching democratic debate.”
  (tags: french_politics french_society)
• SNL – Christopher Walken – More Cowbell
  I’ve got a fever…!
  (tags: funny video)
• SNL – Gansta Rap Insurance
  Who’s gonna care for your biatches?
  (tags: funny video hip_hop)

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