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Blogging Notes

By chris | Published: 22 November 2009
1. The tone and content of my previous Fisking Sullivan post might lead people to believe that the whole was an attack on Sullivan. [Fisk] might well be hated by the war-mongering, empire-addicted elements of the right because his skilful and widely recognised reporting of the ‘reality’ that they despise so much. But yesterday Sullivan in a [...]
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Obama and Expectations

By chris | Published: 26 October 2009
I finished the previous post on the rather optimistic thought that Obama’s aspiration to be a president of the United States, to connect with conservatives as well as liberals, is what the times call for. This is worth looking at more closely. Firstly, there is this from Yglesias on that prize. But in semi-defense of the Nobel [...]
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A Bold Choice

By chris | Published: 9 October 2009
But was it wise?  The deadline for nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize was two weeks into Barack Obama’s presidency, so the choice of him will be based on his campaign and transition. The citation finishes: For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for [...]
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Barack Obama

By chris | Published: 21 September 2009
Reflecting on Paul Krugman’s column today urging Obama to take on the Banks, Michael Tomasky’s assessment yesterday of Obama’s chances of leading in Copenhagen being poor because of his domestic troubles (and the increasing linkage of domestic and foreign policy) and Ross Douthat’s mischievous contrarian argument today that Geirge W Bush was, if not a [...]
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On Anger

By chris | Published: 14 September 2009
The articles on this blog have taken an angry turn lately, which is to say I have been highlighting the complete uselessness of anger. This conviction is informed by my Buddhist study and practice where anger is almost semantically tied to negative (i.e., counter-productive) action. As always the intention is the key point, anger [...]
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