Two Minutes of Silence

This post reminds me why I try really hard not to cuss. When you devalue words, somebody has to come up with something shocking to replace those words that are lost.

And so does race. See here. update: More on Katrina and race. Technorati Tags: Katrina

The Death of Arafat and the Myth of New Beginnings by Mark Levine in Juan Cole’s Blog Here is a graf: "In the weeks leading up to Palestinian President Yassir Arafat’s death American politicians and pundits have repeatedly called on the Palestinian people to use the opportunity of his passing to transform the intifada from a violent uprising into a non-violent, democratic and pragmatic program for achieving independence. This is very good advice, needless to say, except for one small problem: Palestinians have been trying to build such a movement for the last two decades, and the Israeli Government, IDF…