Robert Sharp

Posts Tagged ‘election’

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

My del.icio.us links: 30th May to 5th June

Four Days in Denver - A 'West Wing' Writer Imagines the Showdown at the Democratic National Convention
The Body's Grace - If the creator were quite so instrumentalist in "his" attitude to sexuality, these hints of prodigality and redundancy in the way the whole thing works might cause us to worry about whether he was, after all, in full rational control of it. But if God mad
We Hate the Kids pt1 - Laurie Penny on Liberal Conspiracy: "And suddenly the biscuit-eating public is frightened again."

(Generated by Postalicious)

Friday, May 30th, 2008

My del.icio.us links: 25th May to 28th May

Hallelujah! - Brian Appleyard on Leonard Cohen's modern masterpiece
Jesus Rodriguez Velasco - Striking design, reminds me of Borges for some reason.
Democratic Candidates and Technological Metaphors - Clinton is Yahoo, Obama is Google. McCain is Microsoft.
Why I wrote PGP - "If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don't you always send your paper mail on postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a warrant for police searches of your house? Are you trying to hide something
Interracial Intimacy - White-black dating, marriage, and adoption are on the rise. This development, however, is being met with resistance—more vocally by blacks than by whites
HisSpace - The Internet Presidency - How would Obama’s success in online campaigning translate into governing?
Wanted: new-thinking pioneers - Martin Bright: "Even exceptional behind-the-scenes strategists such as Dan Corry, the present head of the No 10 Policy Unit, or Nick Pearce, Brown's strategy adviser, are in no position to think in the long term."

(Generated by Postalicious)

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

My del.icio.us links: 12th May to 16th May

My gateway to infinity - Clive James again: "It can talk about value, saying not just “This is what I have done” but “This is what others have done, and I find it valuable beyond price”.
clivejames.com
Music Gives Me Hope - Daniel Barenboim on the decline of Israeli socialism and the unifying power of music: "Before a Beethoven Symphony, all human beings are equal"
USA political election logos 2008 - 1960 - I think Nixon's use of a full stop is particularly interesting.
normblog: Israel at 60 - “Those who cannot celebrate the existence of Israel but only criticize it, put themselves beyond all sense of sympathy with the legitimate concerns of the Jewish people - as if these had no basis, no rationale, no historical genesis; as if Israel’s history was solely about usurpation and error; as if it was not itself born under the threat of annihilation, a threat that is ever renewed.”

(Generated by Postalicious)