Monthly Archives: March 2003

NEXT, WE’RE GOING TO REPEAL THE LAW OF GRAVITY

Posted on March 15, 2003 by Dave Pollard

Just caught a preview of an upcoming movie called The Core. Apparently it involves a military effort to create a WMD by harnessing the Earth’s inner core and directing earthquakes at targeted enemies. As expected, it backfires as the Earth … Continue reading →

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RECONNAISSANCE: A SONNET

Posted on March 15, 2003 by Dave Pollard

Thanks to Charly Z I’ve discovered that ‘my poetry form’ is the sonnet. That’s an anal-retentive form of poetry that follows an abab/cdcd/efef/gg rhyme scheme, each line of which is in iambic pentameter (i.e. contains 10 syllables, with the even-numbered … Continue reading →

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FROM A DISTANCE

Posted on March 14, 2003 by Dave Pollard

From a distance the world looks blue and green And the snow-capped mountains white From a distance the ocean meets the stream And the eagle takes to flight From a distance there is harmony And it echoes through the land … Continue reading →

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SEVEN EXTRAORDINARY WEBLOGS

Posted on March 13, 2003 by Dave Pollard

Here’s some new discoveries I’ve made on the Blogosphere recently. Even though I know you already have all the reading you can handle. Chris Baldwin’s Bruno Strip contains the weekly, visually sumptuous cartoon adventures of a woman named Bruno. Grist … Continue reading →

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THE THIRD WAY

Posted on March 12, 2003 by Dave Pollard

This essay is in response to requests for a précis and update of my much longer essay How to Save the World. Thirty millennia ago, a new and unique human culture evolved1 amidst all the others. It differed radically from … Continue reading →

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SOPHOMORE BLOGGER GROWING PAINS

Posted on March 11, 2003 by Dave Pollard

What do you do when you can’t find an archived post (yours or a fellow Slogger’s) on a particular subject? Do you have to browse day-by-day through your blog calendar until you find it? And what do you expect a … Continue reading →

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AMERICAN GULAG

Posted on March 10, 2003 by Dave Pollard

“There are 650 people from 43 countries being held at Guantanamo Bay on suspicion of links to the al-Qaeda terrorist network. The people have not been charged and are not allowed lawyers. Sixteen are known to have attempted suicide.” – … Continue reading →

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THE LAST WORD ON IRAQ

Posted on March 10, 2003 by Dave Pollard

As Scott Rosenberg asserts in today’s blog post, the definitive word on Iraq has now been written. It is contained in a lengthy, complex and balanced essay by Salon’s Greg Kamiya called Sleepwalking Toward Baghdad. If you haven’t seen it, … Continue reading →

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LIFE SKILLS

Posted on March 10, 2003 by Dave Pollard

We’ve just been through another exercise at work to help us identify our, and our employees’, skills, and how to improve them. There are a mass of these, from What Color is Your Parachute to Do What You Are . … Continue reading →

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TODAY’S WORDS OF WISDOM

Posted on March 9, 2003 by Dave Pollard

“The dumbing down of America is an overt strategy for subverting democracy. You create a society where people look to the corporate media to tell them what things mean because they’re incapable, or believe they’re incapable, of thinking things through … Continue reading →

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