a shameful waste of madhouse time

I like that metaphor — but Robert Scheer, writing in the SF Chronicle is the one that came up with it:
THOSE WHO mindlessly support Israel, right or wrong, from President Bush on through the cheerleaders in Congress and the media, betray the security of the Jewish state. They are enablers, who have encouraged Israel’s dependency [...]

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Yahoo ‘Strictest’ Censor in China: Yahoo is stricter than any other search engine in China when enforcing censorship, said a journalism-advocacy group Thursday.
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said their tests showed that Yahoo.cn blocked a higher percentage of politically sensitive results than Google.cn or the beta version of msn.cn.
The tests were performed using 10 politically-sensitive keywords [...]

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This is from a travel article in the Washington Post:
Reykjavik is full of these lively weekend warriors, which has made Iceland in the last half-decade the most talked-about outpost of the partying free world. I’ll end up talking about it myself: It’s a great time. Though this particular pit stop had a bit of an [...]

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我今天再次去了金陵路看吉他但是最后还是没有买。。。我还是对买吉他，尤其是比较高档的那种，又许多疑问，而我这个时候最需要的是一个志同道合的朋友来给我一些建议。但是我生活的这个部分一直都是处于隔离状态的，我很少把我的音乐给人家听，何况跟人家又直接的合作或互动。上海还是一个寂寞的地方。。。今天晚上去了堂会，为了听它们周三晚上的open mic，但是感觉主要就是老板zoomma的个人秀，没有什么其他人。这个舞台就这样被他霸占了，这种open mic没什么意义了，所以我干脆喝完啤酒拔脚走了。
我应该把有限的时间和精力倾注在音乐创作还是写作还是摄影。要拷问自己的新，要听凭自己内心的声音还真的是一桩难事。我现在最需要的是人家的指引，但是跟我同辈的人大概都无法帮助我。虽然大家可以互补，我还是认为只有一个有很丰富的社会阅历且不同寻常的智慧的人才能真正的帮助我。

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From Asia news italy:
Yao Lifa, a symbol of democratic political activism, was arrested together with another five independent candidates in Hubei. Released after six hours, he called on 900 million Chinese voters not to give into the Party’s fraud and to use their vote.
He was trying to challenge the Communist Party’s dominance over local elections [...]

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