The First 101 Days

I’m a day or so late. This, a fif­teen minute break I am taking while finishing a paper that seems lon­ger than most dissertations.

I’m happy we no lon­ger tor­ture, but disap­poin­ted we won’t con­si­der pro­se­cu­tion, or at least trying those who did tor­ture. Unmind­ful of our mind­less­ness we use his­tory to guide us. I think it’s because we like to say “his­tory repeats itself” so much we totally dis­re­gard the fact that it would stop repea­ting itself we stop­ped repea­ting it. The path of least resis­tance is to do nothing.

That’s all about resis­tance, there will be no swine flu speak here.

Good news for the first 100 days: We did not make the list of the worst ten coun­tries to be a blog­ger in, and my web host now offers UNLIMITED space and traf­fic on all their sha­red hos­ting accounts, thank you very much.

Good piece by Naomi Wolf, Afghanistan’s Femi­nist Revolution.

Peace

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May 1, 2009 – 12:53 am | By cooper | Posted in Cooper Culture | Comments (10)

10 Comments

  • the amoebaNo Gravatar wrote:
    May 1, 2009 at 3:14 am

    Re: tor­ture. We the Peo­ple should have stop­ped it while it was going on. And tos­sed on their ears those who were doing it. We did not. Now we have the choice of spen­ding the next forty years cha­sing perps, or follo­wing the Recon­ci­lia­tion path of the Repu­blic of South Africa at the close of apartheid (and tor­ture that makes water­boar­ding seem like kin­der­gar­ten at the beach). Nel­son Man­dela, I think, had the right answer.

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  • DougNo Gravatar wrote:
    May 1, 2009 at 7:00 am

    Wow, so in the first 100 days,Obama inc­rea­sed your band­width? Awesome!

    Doug’s last blog post..Immo­dest

  • jacobNo Gravatar wrote:
    May 1, 2009 at 8:23 am

    We’re usually unmind­ful of our mind­less­ness. The whole “what’s past is past” thing is wrong. I think we need to be vigi­lant on the inter­net thing, we’re far from that list but you just never know what con­gress can pass while we aren’t paying atten­tion.
    Cool on the bandwidth.

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  • IrishspacemonkNo Gravatar wrote:
    May 1, 2009 at 10:29 am

    Agree with everything you say (just about) but I do agree with Obama on pro­se­cu­tion. The CIA agents that should not be pro­se­cu­ted when they were wor­king under the legal fra­me­work of the Bush White House. There’s only three peo­ple that should be put away — Bush, Che­ney and Rumsfield.

  • jakeNo Gravatar wrote:
    May 1, 2009 at 11:04 am

    Did you see the latest Pew Research on tor­ture? It was limi­ted, but accor­ding to it, or my best inter­pre­ta­tion of it, we live in a country where almost half the peo­ple think it’s ok to tor­ture under cer­tain cir­cums­tance, at least at any given time. Makes you look at your neigh­bors in a dif­fe­rent way.

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