Archive for February, 2009

Give ‘em hell, Jon

Jon Stewart takes aim at a recent comment Dick Cheney made about President Obama’s executive order to shut down the prison at Guantanamo Bay, and refutes Cheney’s claims with some spot on counter questions. Watch it.



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What’s up with North Korea?

Apparently, nothing good.

One has to wonder how much is internal conflict, how much is sabre rattling (esp. in regard to the new Obama administration), and how much the financially not so disconnected regime leaders suffer from the economic downturn.

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Quote of the Moment: 1st February 2009

Found in the print edition of the newspaper Die Zeit, a mind-boggling quote by German philosopher Novalis (wikipedia):

Wir suchen immer das Unbedingte und finden doch nur Dinge.

A verbatim translation of the quote runs along the lines of:

We always search the unconditional and still find only things

I’ll go out on a limb and supply another, more construed version, which I actually prefer:

We always search for the unconditional, yet ever only find its entities

However, as English isn’t my mother tongue, both versions have to be taken with a grain of salt.

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