July 2008
9 posts
Zimbabweans play the zero game →
On Monday, the Zimbabwe government introduced the 100 billion Zimbabwe dollar note (for the uninitiated, a billion is nine zeros).
The counting of zeros had already become a nightmare for bankers and shoppers before the introduction of the new note - which at the time of writing would buy about two loaves of bread.
So far this year, the country ravaged by hyperinflation has been forced to...
personal accountability?
When you’re called before the tribunal of history, be sure to mention that you curated a link blog. That should buy you some time to come up with a better alibi.
Abandoned owls blamed on Potter →
“An increase in the number of owls abandoned at a rescue centre in Flintshire has been blamed on the Harry Potter books. Children keen to have their own owl like Harry’s Hedwig, a snowy owl, are getting the birds as pets.
But staff at the Flintshire Wildlife and Pet Rescue Centre in Holywell said the children find they cannot cope once they have them. The centre’s co-owner...
How Corporate Culture Creates Political Apathy...
mills:
[Apologies for the long political post, the last on this subject].
One of the defining aspects of youth is political indignation and perplexed incomprehension: how is that no one else sees the lies, sees the injustice, sees the opportunity to fix the world and wants to seize it? In America, this is an especially common lament: why are citizens so radically disengaged, so indifferent to...
Remember Trotsky? He was the smart one...
Revolution crushes and demolishes the machinery of the old state. Therein is its essence. Crowds fill the arena. They decide, they act, they legislate in their own unprecedented way; they judge, they issue orders. The essence of the revolution is that the mass itself becomes its own executive organ.
—Trotsky, Stalin and Bolshevism
The most indubitable feature of a revolution is the...
“The student is a stoical slave: the more chains authority binds him with, the...”
– On the Poverty of Student Life