Posted in Misc on Apr 23rd, 2009
I spent way too much time last year following the US election on a variety of blogs, notably Andrew Sullivan’s. Once it was over with I thought American politics would fade into the background again–apart from economic questions. I expected a repeat of Clinton’s pragmatic decision not to dig into Iran-Contra matters.
Now, I find I’m [...]
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Posted in Misc on Dec 16th, 2007
This blog post: Myths About Torture and the comments on it are worth a read.
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Posted in Misc on Oct 17th, 2007
Earlier this year I was told in all seriousness by one of our MBA course visiting lecturers that
The meaning of mangement is the management of meaning
I say in all seriousness because the absurdity of this proposition was unchallenged, except by people repeating it afterwards with a smirk. Of course, on one level it’s a reasonable [...]
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