New Media

Happy Halloween, y’all! Here’s an amusing two-minute summary of one of my favorite classic sci-fi horror tales.

This shows my relationships on Twitter to friends, colleagues and groupies. Hello to y’all. This is the NEW social networking.

Right after he rendered his guilty plea? I’d like to think so.

Some great new articles at The Propagandist, your one-stop shop for brass-knuckles political commentary.

• Sudan Conflict About Arab Imperialism Versus Self-Determination
• The SPEECH Act. Chilling Libel Tourism
• Zero Tolerance For Terrorism Suspects?
• We’ve Heard This Story From Iran Before
• Rethinking Israeli-Palestinian Talks

Confusion to our enemies!

An excellent article by Jonathan Kay in the National Post on the gratitude we owe miners.

Working conditions for miners have improved greatly in the 73 years since those words were written. Yet the general principle holds true: We conduct our daily lives oblivious to the fact that virtually every device we use, from a computer to a car to a ball-point pen, is made possible by a global legion of men working in claustrophobic conditions many hundreds of yards beneath the Earth’s surface. And every single one of them is just one Earth-tremor or cave-in away from spending eternity entombed in a mine tunnel. It’s something we should think about as we celebrate the dramatic rescue of 33 miners who spent 70 days trapped in Chile’s San Jose Mine.