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creating culture when culture has been weaponized, or not for nothing is it called a "culture war"
I started out making this a Hedgehog post, and I'll go ahead and add it to the Contemplating the Hedgehog link tree, but this is not about the Hedgehog because the Hedgehog is fundamentally about the future ( Read more... ) -
[contemplating the hedgehog] And then there is domestic terrorism
I have a very weak sort of expertise on far right violent extremism. It was the thing I was writing about in Europe, and that kind of got me into a bit of trouble which is a somewhat lame story ( Read more... ) -
[contemplating the hedgehog] No Fate but What we Make
It's probably not a surprise that I love the Terminator ( Read more... ) -
Contemplating the Hedgehog: How to be Theoden
It isn't enough to Not be Denethor after all. Yes, we can all get off the Internet and have a sandwich, but once you've done that, then what ( Read more... ) -
Contemplating the Hedgehog: Our Pissy Codependent Relationship with NATO
Don't listen to me, listen to Robert Gates and The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/world/europe/11gates.html?_r=1&hp
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“The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress - and ( Read more... ) -
Contemplating the Hedgehog: How Not to Be an Activist: Don't be Denethor
Let me tell you a little story. It's called The Lord of the Rings.
(And here I'm going to steal liberally from the commentary on the Extended Edition of Return of the King. Cutting in case you are one of the five people who've neither read the series nor watched the films, and for some reason still care about spoilers.)
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Contemplating the Hedgehog: Mini-Post
Dear all ( Read more... ) -
Contemplating the Hedgehog: We Can't Handle the Truth
Okay. Lets talk about nuclear weapons.
(I'm putting a lot of this behind a cut because nobody needs to be in this bad a mood without warning.)
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Contemplating the Hedgehog: a post-Osama bin Laden link
You should read this for two reasons:
1) it explicitly acknowledges that the mess we are in is deeply connected to the Cold War and
2) it explicitly acknowledges exactly what the wars have had to do with the US economic problems the hedgehog