http://www.eatbees.com/blog "If not now, when?" Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:24:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Regular readers will have noticed that I haven't been posting here with the regularity that I did back in 2007. That's because I've been spending my time on other projects that I want to finish before returning to Morocco before the end of the year. I'll continue to write new ... http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2008/07/19/until-then/ This long quote in the middle of the video sums it up: Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual material gain, which is accepted as legitimate, even praiseworthy, on the grounds that private license yields public ... http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2008/07/19/manufacturing-consent/ This is how I hope my children will earn their living: from The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski. Onitsha is the only market I know of that has spawned its own literature, the Onitsha Market Literature. Dozens of Nigerian writers live and work in Onitsha [the world's largest market] ... http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2008/07/13/market-writer/ Blogger dday writes: We may score a political victory in November, but the authoritarians will not be vanquished, they will continue to use the weapon of fear, and the lack of accountability.... The young authoritarians who learned at their masters' feet won't go away. They'll return in a future Administration and ... http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2008/07/05/my-fear-too/ Are women different from men? Certainly, although I believe that women and men share many of the attributes that make the other different. Women can be competitive, men can be emotionally sensitive. The same is true for any two groups that are different, such as Chinese and Italians, Catholics and ... http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2008/06/11/parasites-or-saviors/ The Bush administration is pressuring the Iraqi government to sign an agreement in which they will be trampled forever by American troops. A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the U.S. presidential election in November. ... Under ... http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2008/06/06/last-days/ According to the new memoir Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story by now-retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, this is what George W. Bush told his national security team in the aftermath of the killing of four U.S. contractors in Fallujah in 2004: Kick ass! If somebody tries to stop the ... http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2008/06/02/thank-you-fallujah/ I've decided I'd like to have olive trees like these outside my front door. Their color, the sound of the breeze in them, and of course the olives themselves are all very important. Wildflowers in springtime would be nice too. Here's the whole photo. I'm with my friend Mohamed in his village near ... http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2008/05/29/olive-trees/ I didn't have to choose between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton until May 6, because my state of North Carolina was one of the last to hold a primary this year. After hesitating for a long time, because of doubts as to who would do more to transform America after ... http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2008/05/09/three-shameful-quotes/ The New York Times says America is finally taming its immigrants! The May Day demonstrations were significantly smaller than in previous years, and gone were calls for a nationwide boycott of businesses and work. In exchange: Police beat and shoved protesters last year, but the procession was peaceful this year. Actually, if I remember ... http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2008/05/02/wrapped-in-the-flag/