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...alienated and insignificant Mohamed Atta; the next day, Sept. 11, 2001, you join the annals of infamy with all the glory that brings in the darker precincts of humanity. It is the ultimate perversion of the "good death," done for the worst of motives-self-creation through the annihilation of others. People often denounce such suicide attacks as "senseless." On the contrary, they make all too much malevolent sense. There is great power in owning your own death-and even greater power in forever dispossessing your infidel victims of theirs...
...conform to unnatural and confining standards. Those who couldn't meet them often pretended that they had. One of the strictest requirements, since Andrew Jackson inaugurated the era of the common man, has been that the President fulfill what historian Edward Pessen called the log-cabin myth: the personal-creation narrative that begins with humble roots. For some Presidents--the Roosevelts and J.F.K. spring to mind--the effort was clearly impossible. But other patricians in the White House have passed as plebians. In 1840 the supporters of William Henry Harrison called him the Log Cabin and Hard Cider candidate, after...
...Feingold bill has retreated from the battle lines. But the leading Democratic candidates have not acted any better. Senator Clinton, Senator Obama, and John Edwards have already indicated that they will be opting out of the public financing system for the 2008 race. For the first time since the creation of the public financing system 30 years ago, no major candidates are participating...
...wowed. The record is also plagued by trite and uninspired lyrics, but the overall quality and diversity of the music makes this fact forgivable. Patrick Wolf is a competent musician, and there is some great songwriting and technical virtuosity happening here. One might view this album as the schizophrenic creation of a deeply sad man trying desperately to be happy, and there are even some moments that foreshadow a move toward the darkness of industrial music. “The Stars,” “Overture,” and “Bluebells?...
...Lebanon on the pretext that Hizballah crossed the blue line. The irony here is that when Israel came to Lebanon in 1982, the justification was they wanted to finish the PLO. What actually happened is that they did not finish the PLO. But they laid the seeds for the creation of Hizballah...