Tag Archives: Politics

Jet Blue: Arabic = Terrorism?

By alex | Published: 8/24/2006
If this is true, Jet Blue has some serious explaining to do. Raed Jarrar wore a T-shirt on his flight from JFK to Oakland reading “We will not be silent” in English and Arabic. The Jet Blue staff (and possibly others) disagreed, and told him he had to remove or cover up his shirt if […]
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War on Terror

By alex | Published: 8/11/2006
The Bush administration is again playing with alternatives to the “War on Terror,” now turning the machinery of war toward “religious extremism.” (I would prefer a “Crusade against religious extremism,” just for ironic effect, but I don’t think that’s going to play well.) Many have suggested that you can’t have a war on terror, because […]
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DOPA, WTF

By alex | Published: 7/28/2006
I admit it: I thought DOPA was too dopey to be very worried about. After all, Net Neutrality seemed to me to be more important in the long run, and more embattled. I never imagined that DOPA would make it very far, and so I wasn\’t worried about it. As Will Richardson notes the anti-social […]
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Permissions

By alex | Published: 7/7/2006
I guess this is PSA week at the blog. I liked this, though I guess he forgot to ask these guys.
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