Al Jazeera under pressure

NY Times: Under Pressure, Qatar May Sell Jazeera Station

. . . Bush administration officials have complained heatedly to Qatari leaders that Al Jazeera's broadcasts have been inflammatory, misleading and occasionally false, especially on Iraq.

Oh, you mean like Fox "News"?

an AI-informed perspective on stereotyping and labels

Recently, my friend naudiz made a very well-written philosophical rant on labeling and symbolism. I liked it a lot, but had a few things I wanted to say in response. Several paragraphs in I realized that I wanted to be able to find it later, so I moved it here and will put a link to it in her comments for that post.

(I've observed that the above post is locked, so you may not be able to read it. Sorry for the inconvenience if so. The material below does not directly depend on it, however.)

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transvestite power!

News24:Cross-dressing Nazi slayer

I swear, I do not make these things up. But sometimes even I wonder.

I'd like to see this documentary.

some basic facts on the situation in Iraq

BBC News: Life In Post-Saddam Iraq

This series of pages really lays things out well: concise, informative, well-illustrated.

GovTrack

http://www.govtrack.us/

Basically allows you to track how US legislation is going, with RSS feeds and so forth. I haven't played with it much yet, but it looks very handy.