I do not recommend any legislative action against hermeneutics. I am a liberal person opposed to all unnecessary state limitation of individual liberties. Hermeneutics between consenting adults should not, in my view, be the object of any statutory restrictions. I know, only too well, what it would entail. Hermeneutic speakeasies would spring up all over the place, smuggled Thick Descriptions would be brought in by the lorry-load from Canada by the Mafia, blood and thick meaning would clot in the gutter as rival gangs of semiotic bootleggers slugged it out in a series of bloody shoot-outs and ambushes. Addicts would be subject to blackmail. Consumption of deep meanings and its attendant psychic consequences would in no way diminsh, but the criminal world would benefit, and the whole fabric of civil society would be put under severe strain. Never!
(Ernest Gellner, Anthropology and Politics, 1995)

"If that man's face was a clock, no one would dare look at it to tell the time"
Anonymous Belgian peasant upon seeing Napoleon

Praise the lord dental - is that good or bad? Took this picture in Harlem, New York recently.

Two music videos. One is from Palestine, the other from Brazil. "I am not against peace, peace is against me", says the Palestinian rapper and conveys a similar feeling to the Brazilian O Rappa rapper when he says: "My gun is loaded and pointed at the face of tranquility. Peace without a voice is not peace, it is fear. I don't want to keep the peace just to try to be happy."

The Palestinian situation can also be seen from a class perspective: The rich against the poor. And the Brazilian situation can also be seen from the perspective of race, if not ethnicity: It is black against white.

The Brazilian video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8281411227180747473&q=o+rappa&pl=true

The Palestinian video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7788337296802591616&q=jihad+rap&pl=true

"That was not funny. You should be ashamed!"

Slobo is dead.

A pity in a way because it seems like an easy way to go for him, but on some level might we not still say that justice has been done? I mean, he died in prison being tried for his crimes. I still feel it is an anticlimax of some sort though... If only that trial hadn't taken so long! How long until the first conspiracy theory?