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compos mentis. Concision. Media. Clarity. Memes. Context. Melange. Confluence. Mishmash. Conflation. Mellifluous. Conviviality. Miscellany. Confelicity. Milieu. Cogent. Minty. Concoction.

The Season of the Heirheads
Topic: Society 7:21 pm EST, Nov 16, 2003

This fall, the young, bored and superrich have come up with a devastatingly effective method of disarming America's simmering outrage: they have learned to utterly humiliate themselves on cable television.

On "The Simple Life," the socialite Paris Hilton agrees to spend a month living with a farm family in Arkansas, along with Nicole Richie, the singer Lionel Richie's daughter.

In the first episode, there's the predictable pile-up of "Sex and the City" meets "Hee-Haw" jokes. (Hilton wonders if Wal-Mart is where you go to buy "wall stuff.") But it's when Nicole muses about dragging the farm family's fresh-faced 19-year-old son into a sexual "threesome" for sport that you may find yourself reaching for a Louis Auchincloss novel and a bottle of Scotch.

I find this an interesting, and entirely believable, tidbit, to be included in a New York Times article only one day after its editorial page wrote about "The Wal-Martization of America."

The Season of the Heirheads


'Global Networks': Webs Connecting the Power Brokers, the Money and the World
Topic: Arts 11:09 pm EST, Nov 15, 2003

Mark Lombardi was onto something ... His drawings - you could call them maps or charts, and they also have some connection with 19th-century panoramas - track global financial fiascos and related political shenanigans, mostly of the 1980's and 90's.

Some drawings are as much as 10 feet wide, rather lightly marked in pencil with arrows and names: delicate spider webs of scandal.

Lombardi's work has been called "conspiracy art". It's a kind of global MemeStreams, elegantly visualized with a purpose, as Art.

'Global Networks': Webs Connecting the Power Brokers, the Money and the World


Jungle Music
Topic: Music 1:52 pm EST, Nov 15, 2003

Hello everybody, welcome to our famous Cotton Club.

Great to see so many friends here tonight, enjoying themselves in spite of the cover charge.

And if you can spare a minute from your merry-makin', I'd like to have the pleasure of introducing, the greatest living master of jungle music,

the rip-roaring harmony hound none other than ...

Duke Ellington!

Jungle Music


A 'New' Palestinian Authority
Topic: International Relations 1:37 pm EST, Nov 15, 2003

A year and a half after President Bush demanded that the Palestinians remove Yasir Arafat from power, a new Palestinian government has now been installed and its unchallenged leader is ... Yasir Arafat. ... This is a tragic failure. ... Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government says it will try harder with Mr. Qurei.

Unfortunately, this movie already feels like a remake.

This editorial appears in the Saturday, 15 November edition of NYT.

Follow the movie meme, as life imitates art imitates life. I am left wondering whether the "try harder" comment above is also a dig at the Wachowski Brothers, since many critics of "Revolutions" opined that the fight for Zion went on too long, leading them to ask, rhetorically, "When is this war going to end?"

A 'New' Palestinian Authority


Matrix reloaded -- yet again
Topic: International Relations 1:33 pm EST, Nov 15, 2003

Israeli academic Jeff Halper has coined the phrase "the matrix of control" to describe the system of settlements, outposts, bypass roads, confiscated land masquerading as national parks, military zones, checkpoints and now hundreds of kilometres of a "separation wall" that together effectively entrap the Palestinian population in ghettoes across the West Bank and Gaza.

Halper's point is to explain how Israel uses non-military tools -- planning laws, architecture and geography -- as well as military hardware to herd Palestinians into the spaces it allocates them: the "Bantustan" homelands familiar from apartheid South Africa.

This article was published on 13 November in the Cairo-based Al-Ahram Weekly. Note the movie reference in the title.

This is an interesting choice of metaphor. It puts the Israelis in the role of the machines, but in so doing, it also puts the Palestinians in the role of the human rebels in a desperate struggle to defend Zion.

Matrix reloaded -- yet again


The Wal-Martization of America
Topic: Business 1:23 pm EST, Nov 15, 2003

The 70,000 grocery workers on strike in Southern California are the front line in a battle to prevent middle-class service jobs from turning into poverty-level ones.

The supermarkets say they are forced to lower their labor costs to compete with Wal-Mart, a nonunion, low-wage employer aggressively moving into the grocery business.

Everyone should be concerned about this fight.

NYT weighs in on one of two ongoing labor disputes in southern California.

The Wal-Martization of America


RAND Study Finds Entertainment TV Can Help Teach Teens ...
Topic: Health and Wellness 11:06 pm EST, Nov 14, 2003

Researchers were able to do the novel study as a part of the RAND Television and Adolescent Sexuality study, a national effort that is examining the role television plays in teenagers' development of sexual attitudes and behavior.

Funding for the RAND Health study was provided by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).

Here is the press release that RAND issued in regard to the previously blogged NYT article.

RAND Study Finds Entertainment TV Can Help Teach Teens ...


The Way We Live Now: Sex-Ed Night School
Topic: Health and Wellness 10:59 pm EST, Nov 14, 2003

According to a new study, watching TV is a highly effective means of teaching teenagers about sensitive sexual issues like, just to name one, condom leakage.

Researchers at the RAND Corporation have found that a single episode of "Friends" centering on Rachel's unplanned pregnancy due to the untimely failure of Ross's condom stuck in the heads of most teenagers who viewed it, and especially those who viewed it with an adult and discussed it together afterward.

Six months later, RAND found, the teenagers still recalled its gist: life is imperfect and sometimes rubbers rupture.

God bless RAND.

(I couldn't decide whether to file this under TV, Health and Wellness, or Science.)

The Way We Live Now: Sex-Ed Night School


Qaeda Pawn, US Calls Him. Victim, He Calls Himself.
Topic: War on Terrorism 10:48 pm EST, Nov 14, 2003

Maher Arar has been back from Syria for five weeks now, with his wife and two children in their simple apartment, earnestly pleading to all who will listen that he is an innocent casualty of the Bush administration's war on terror.

"The damage has been done. We need to say something because 'Arar' is going to become shorthand for excess in the name of security, running roughshod over the rule of law."

Qaeda Pawn, US Calls Him. Victim, He Calls Himself.


The Global CSO Council
Topic: Computer Security 9:33 am EST, Nov 13, 2003

The Global Council of CSOs is a think tank comprised of a group of influential corporate, government and academic security experts dedicated to raising the awareness of online security issues.

The Council encourages dialogue and action to meet the new challenges of online security.

The Council focuses on defining the role CSOs should take in corporate, national security, and future technology development.

The Global CSO Council


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