Here are the Blogs in the Hugh Fitzgerald category.
Friday, 3 February 2012
Friday Movie: Night Train To Munich
Posted on 02/03/2012 7:12 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 3 February 2012
A Letter In The Wall Street Journal: Who Is Entitled To An Opinion On Global Warming, And Who Is Not?
Letter published in The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 1, 2012:
Check With Climate Scientists for Views on Climate
Do you consult your dentist about your heart condition? In science, as in any area, reputations are based on knowledge and expertise in a field and on published, peer-reviewed work.
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Posted on 02/03/2012 7:01 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 3 February 2012
Afghans: How Dare The Americans Leave Before They Have "Fixed Afghanistan"?
From The New York Times:
Afghans Fear Downturn as Foreigners Withdraw
January 31, 2012
By GRAHAM BOWLEY
KABUL, Afghanistan — The anticipated withdrawal of most international forces is still two years away, but already Afghans who have depended on the decade-old foreign presence for their livelihoods
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Posted on 02/03/2012 6:45 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 3 February 2012
A Musical Interlude: My Very Good Friend The Milkman (Fats Waller)
Posted on 02/03/2012 5:13 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 3 February 2012
How The New York Times Covered The Shafia Verdict In Canada
A few days ago The New York Times ran a story about the Canadian trial, in which Mohamed Shafia, one of his wives, and his son were all found guilty of the carefully-planned murder of another of his wives, and three of his daughters.
Here is that story, as it appeared in The New York Times on January
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Posted on 02/03/2012 4:23 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 3 February 2012
When The American Agent Hadden Tried To Stop Israel From Attacking In June 1967
The cover story in the magazine section of the Sunday edition of The New York Times (Jan. 29, 2012), by Ronen Bergman, is titled "Will Israel Attack Iran?" It is rivetting and revealing; you can find the full text here.
There is something in it that Ihas been until now unknown
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Posted on 02/03/2012 4:09 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 3 February 2012
That Enunciatory (But Not Ineluctable) Modality Of The (All Too) Visible Homi Bhabha
From the unblushing Harvard Crimson:
Homi Bhabha Receives Civilian Honor From India
By Jared T. Lucky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
February 03, 2012
Harvard professor Homi K. Bhabha won one of India’s highest civilian honors this week, according to an announcement made last Wednesday
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Posted on 02/03/2012 1:19 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 3 February 2012
Assad Not About To Decamp
Syria's Assad set for long conflict
From Reuters:
February 3, 2012
By Mariam Karouny
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - With the enemy at the gates, Bashar al-Assad was dining out.
The sound of gunfire and explosions carried to central Damascus as his troops clashed in the suburbs last Saturday with rebels
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Posted on 02/03/2012 11:01 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 3 February 2012
Paul Weston's British Freedom Party
Here is the platform of the British Freedom Party, headed by the admirable Paul Weston:
20 Point Plan
1. Introduce a US style First Amendment guaranteeing Free Speech.
2. Leave the profoundly undemocratic European Union.
3. Abolish the Human Rights Act, which
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Posted on 02/03/2012 8:52 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 3 February 2012
A Cinematic Musical Interlude: Jimmy (Irene Dunne)
Posted on 02/03/2012 8:27 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Friday, 3 February 2012
The Erotic Pleasure Of Talking About Sex With A Sooterkins Of Wit
Now when Pantagruel asked those students from Paris what they did in lascivious Lutetia, you may remember what one of the students replied (in J. M. Cohen's translation):
"We transfretate the Sequana at the dilucule and crepuscule; we deambulate through the compites and quadrives
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Posted on 02/03/2012 8:22 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Law Graduates Sue Law Schools For Misrepresentation
The American Education Industry deserves to be sued for many things: for its miserable performance, its cost, for its reliance on, and mistreatment of, adjuncts (many of whom are pedagogically indistiinguishable from the professors with tenure who are paid five times as much, for the same work)
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Posted on 02/02/2012 5:25 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Thursday, 2 February 2012
A Musical Interlude: Have You Ever Been In Heaven? (Al Bowlly)
Posted on 02/02/2012 10:01 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Uh Oh
Posted on 02/01/2012 9:16 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
A Musical Interlude: Nevermore (Slawa Przybylska)
Posted on 02/01/2012 8:39 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Wislawa Szymborska Has Died
From lefigaro.fr:
Décès de la poétesse Szymborska
AFP
le 01/02/2012
La poétesse polonaise Wislawa Szymborska, prix Nobel de Littérature 1996, est morte ce soir à l'âge de 88 ans, a annoncé son assistant Michal Rusinek. Elle
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Posted on 02/01/2012 8:34 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
All The Experts Agree: Assad Can't Last Much Longer
Let's see what happens in a month, or two months, or three, in Syria. Let's see if all those experts who have been confidently predicting -- unanimously confidently predicting -- the imminent collapse of the Assad regime, understood the situation in Syria.
While waiting, here's one
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Posted on 02/01/2012 7:55 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
More Mots Justes From Flaubert
"Je demande, au nom de l'humanité, à ce qu'on broie la Pierre-Noire, pour en jeter les cendres au vent, à ce qu'on détruise La Mecque, et que l'on souille la tombe de Mahomet. Ce serait le moyen de démoraliser le Fanatisme."
(Gustave Flaubert
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Posted on 02/01/2012 5:10 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
American Soldiers Blamed For Attacks By Afghan Troops They Train -- It's Their "Cultural Misunderstanding," Their "Lack Of Emotional Intelligence"
From The Christian Science Monitor:
February 1, 2012
Taliban infiltrators in Afghanistan? Pentagon warns of 'insider threat.'
Attacks by Afghan police and soldiers against US troops have caused friction and raised the threat that Taliban sympathizers could be joining the Afghan Army
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Posted on 02/01/2012 4:51 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Why Do The Winners Attack The Losers?
Here's the headline:
Egyptian soccer riot: Death toll at 73
Los Angeles Times - 57 minutes ago
REPORTING FROM CAIRO -- The death toll rose to at least 73 people late Wednesday after hooligans
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Posted on 02/01/2012 4:27 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Hamdane Ammar: Islam Is Hell On Earth For Women
From Riposte Laique:
L’islam : un enfer sur terre pour les femmes
Posted on 30 janvier 2012 by Hamdane Ammar - Article du nº 236
Avant l’apparition de l’islam, la femme arabe était plus libre et prenait même part aux activités guerrières et pacifiques.Elle
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Posted on 02/01/2012 4:24 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Deborah Scroggins Is Asked Two Questions
Here is Deborah Scroggins, the other night at an appearance at Porter Square Books, being asked two questions.
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Posted on 02/01/2012 3:55 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Making The Threat Credible
From Reuters:
Feb. 1, 2012
The United States should deploy ships, step up covert activities and sharpen its rhetoric to make more credible the threat of a U.S. military strike to stop Iran's nuclear program, a bipartisan group said on Wednesday.
Former U.S. politicians, generals and officials
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Posted on 02/01/2012 12:03 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Sanctions On Iran Too Little, Too Late
From Middle East Clarity:
Iran sanctions still pale in comparison to Iraq
by Todd Warnick • Feb 1, 2012
The world was united and resolute on sanctions against Iraq - not so Iran
While the United States and Europe
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Posted on 02/01/2012 10:32 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Hillary Clinton Believes It Makes Sense To Talk About "The People Of Syria"
"We all know that change is coming to Syria. Despite its ruthless tactics, the Assad regime's reign of terror will end and the people of Syria will have a chance to chart their own destiny," she said. "The question for us is how many more innocent civilians will die before this country
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Posted on 02/01/2012 7:18 AM by Hugh Fitzgerald
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