Archive for October, 2009

Glenn Greenwald

Posted in News, Opinion on 10 October, 2009 by S&Co.

… writes today in Salon:

… there is something unquestionably bizarre about awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to a leader who did not merely “inherit,” but is advocating and actively prosecuting and escalating, a major war that is killing large numbers of civilians with no plans to stop, while at the same time building prisons to house people who will have no due process.

The Man in the Wooden Hat

Posted in Books, Excerpts with tags on 4 October, 2009 by S&Co.

The Man in the Wooden Hat[p. 27] The plane lurched sideways and down. Then again sideways and down. It tilted its wings like a bird that had suddenly lost concentration and fallen asleep in the dark. Though, thought Filth, the prep-school-trained ornithologist, they never do.

– Jane Gardam The Man in the Wooden Hat (Europa; $15)

Finally, finally …

Posted in News on 1 October, 2009 by S&Co.
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