BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I found an excellent essay, Vietnam War Retrospective that discusses photojournalism’s effects on the Vietnam protest movement. Among some of the events recalled by the author, Frank Cossa, is the following: We saw a callow, fair young man slip a flower into the rifle barrel of a helmeted MP standing guard in […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Mike Sanders says And the equivocation and silence of the non war bloggers is deafening. Not only condemned for what we say, we are now condemned by what we don’t say. Weblogging now has a new owner and that owner is the war bloggers and those who believe that if we don’t […]
There’s been considerable discussion throughout weblogdom about the Berkeley protests yesterday. Personally, I thought it was one of the milder student protests I’ve seen at Berkeley. What’s interesting is that there have been Jewish people within the pro-Palestinian side of many of these demonstrations. For instance, in yesterday’s protest, The Mercury News reported the following excerpt from […]
I’ve been reading some of the postings of Glenn Reynolds, aka InstaPundit.com, a law professor — of constitutional law, no less — from Tennesse who comes out with the most hate filled, war mongering, bullshit I’ve ever had the displeasure to read. Since when did racial bigotry — of any kind — become patriotic? Since when […]
There was a pro-Palestinian march on Friday in downtown San Francisco. The marchers made their way to the Israeli consulate, where they were met by a pro-Israeli protest. Both sides met across a space separated by metal barriers. Each side threw words of hatred at the other, as if the words were a weapon that could penetrate […]