Last week ten previously unseen photos of Hiroshima, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer immediately after the bombing, were released by the Hoover Archives. Most of the photos we’ve seen of the aftermath are either sanitized, showing a sterile landscape from which everything has been simply removed, like this one:
Everyone — everyone — needs to see and understand this. It’s an incredibly shocking story, and it’s ongoing.
Part two after the jump.
As opposed to 28 Days Later, which was better. Spoiler alert!
Finished Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism” the other week. It’s a scary take on what the neo-con future of economics looks like.
Much more after the jump. Updated: shockdoctrine.org is another good source.
I’m not even done reading Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race yet, but it looks like Richard Rhodes has hit another home run. I was totally blown away, so to speak, by the chapter “Looking Over The Horizon” last night. It’s a minute-by-minute account of the Reykjavic summit of 1986, when [...]
One of the spots I frequently do travelogues from, South Mountain Reservation, was the scene of a very scary happening today. A friend of mine was walking her dogs up there and stumbled across some paramilitary types shooting automatic weapons at trees. You can read the whole thing here.
I know the writer of this [...]
From a Washington Post article about Bush’s refusal to allow Harriet Meiers et al testify before congress:
“David B. Rifkin, who worked in the Justice Department and White House counsel’s office under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, praised the position and said it is consistent with the idea of a “unitary executive.” In [...]
I’ve been down with the flu the last few days and in no mood to write. But what online time I’ve been allowing myself has me transfixed by the spectacle of the Bush administration’s latest implosion, the US Attorneys scandal. If you haven’t been following it, you should; it might be the blockbuster that sends [...]
Having grown up in Ohio, I still take interest to the goings on out there. This electoral season is needless to say an interesting one, as sixteen or so years of near-total Republican control over state politics seems to be drawing to a close.
Which brings me to a trip to Fantasyland.
If you haven’t yet read this story, you must. Late last month a Boeing 737 and a private jet sideswiped each other over the Amazon rain forest. The 737 went down with no survivors. The private jet made an emergency landing at a military airstrip, and all survived. Among them was Joe Sharkey, a business-travel columnist for The New York Times, and his story is riveting.
Where fiction meets reality. Even though I’m pretty politically inclined myself I try to not go deeply into it here because it’s not my main point. But this is too over the top to leave alone.
If you haven’t seen this movie, get up, go to the video store and rent it.
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