Long Sunday

International Slugfest

Holy Shit.  Time to visit Nairn's most necessary corrective once again, I guess.

Happy 9/11/06

Two things hereby commended:  today's s lot (from whence the image, and the story of the image); and a terrific, highly educative film, "9/11:  Press for Truth" (courtesy of here).  That is all.

Canada Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, addresses Canada in his first national speech since becoming PM.  Watch his whole body follow the dot on his teleprompter. (ed - Craig.)

Hear the Kossacks Call

What's funniest about all of this "Path to 9/11" humbug:  the 9/11 Commission Report was itself politically white-washed crock of shit.    Sorry to spoil the party (and sign the petition, please*) but still someone had to say it.

*particularly if–like most LS lurkers–you are a centrist with any cred.

Update 9/10:  Oh wouldn't you know it, "The Path to 9/11" is linked directly to David Horowitz (where does that man get all his money?):

Iran and Hitchcock; Capitalism; Kafka

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Interesting that, of all the countries in the world, Iran is today the cyberspace capital of blogging;whereas Iraq has a mere few dozen bloggers reporting on the US invasion, Iran has a few hundred thousand bloggers, the otherwise repressive Iranian regime covertly permitting virtual freedom to the country's vast population of educated youth (60 per cent of Iran's university places are occupied by women, while less than 2 per cent of Iran's population regularly attends a Mosque ...).

See also:  Chomsky on Iran in Dublin.

Elsewhere, everyone knows that "Theory" is not philosophy.  Theory is, like, The Daily Show.  But so party on, only why not take The Lump of Capital Fallacy with you?

Before the Law joins the blogommons; welcome.

A recommend

Simon Critchley is interviewed today by Mark Thwaite at the rather peerless ReadySteadyBook. An excerpt below the fold:

Intermission

Brian at Crooked Timber paints a rather rosy-fingered picture of grad school, and John Emerson is having none of it.  Strong feelings on the matter, anyone?  Also of note: Mark Thwaite, of the peerless ReadySteadyBook interviews Andrew Merrifield, the author of a new book on Guy Debord; Scott McLemee confesses a fondness for French Roast, and David Lynch is still more or less daily proving weatherwen in LA obsolete.

Meanwhile, our own IT has posted the definitive blogpost on the recent philosophy conference at Birbeck, complete with sound recordings and, yes, pictures;   Doug Johnson responds to our symposium, and Darren at Long Pauses writes again about Beau Travail. I wonder if he's seen Tuvalu (like most Denis Lavant, a film positively slapstick sensual...surreal, bodily, and poignant).

Another One Bites the Valve

• You're welcome over here, LB.  • They fuck you up, your mum and dad  • The best drink to have with Adorno (via).  • Picture the billionaires playing football.  • Worst. "Song." Ever.  • A Few Bad Apples (via).  • Chomsky gets his apology.

• Congratulations to Pierre Joris.  • Holy Maurice Blanchot!

• Long Sunday finds its niche.  • Image courtesy of here. • And Michael Benton has a new project.

• Walter Benn Michaels:

Paxless in Americana

It's a match made in heaven.  One wonders if they know each other?  A commenter on the latter, one "Big Billy" asks a good question:

What if a pair of opposing hypocrits (where one says one thing and doesw [sic] the other, and the other says the other and does the one thing) team up? As a human, I find it impossible to constantly avoid hypocrasy [sic], so why not pair up and embrace out hypocritical natures, and then we can really progress, right? My partner will do my work for me while I do his work for him. We will both get our jobs done while approaching more exagerated extremes.
But then again, we're probably better off if you just call me an idiot too.

In this our quest, for the ultimate blog brevity I then leave it to you, dear eater, to draw your own excursions.  For it is a black and white world, with the Author sitting f'evern top (ever'n especially whilst claiming the bottom!) and we was only ever kiddin', once Hugh challenged e to a duel. 

A duel, e says!  At dawn, no less.  E dunno, somehow "be offended, but say so" just don't 'ave the same ring to it.    An' sometimes it be da fools who call idiots, "idiots" best.

Katrina Related Remix

Louisiana 1927

Hell on Earth (NPR)

George Bush Don't Like Black People

Cornel West

The Militarization of New Orleans

"He [President Nixon] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks.  They key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to."  -H.R. Halderman, cited in Lockdown America by Christian Parenti

Ottawa Citizen

Notes on Universal Experience and Difference

Project Censored

Reporters Gone Wild

Crooks

New Orleans to be rebuilt without "underclass"