Monthly Archives: March 2007

Fun With Right-Wing Radicalism in Japan

Oh yeah, we def­i­nitely need this.I’m going to write as if the whole arti­cle were true. If it seems an extreme account to you, the one above, please leave com­ments and refer me to other sources.A acquain­tance of mine who vis­its Japan reg­u­larly has noted that there seems to be a want by some to put …

March 31, 2007 – 7:02 pm | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Towards A Better Media: Blogging and Op-Ed

Instead of mak­ing grand pro­nounce­ments about how the Inter­net and tech­nol­ogy are chang­ing the way we take in and use infor­ma­tion, per­haps we should rec­og­nize that there is a humil­ity in spe­cial­iza­tion. For to spe­cial­ize could mean that one becomes supremely arro­gant (*ahem*), but it also means one can hold off on pro­nounc­ing on a …

March 30, 2007 – 9:50 pm | By ashok | Posted in blogging, media | Comments (0)

Just Some Links

Some very right-wing posts of mine at Irate Nation, if you haven’t seen them yet: “The Story of Amer­ica” and “Does Tech­nol­ogy Neces­si­tate Changes in the Nature of Pol­i­tics?” I wrote these and thought they were pretty polem­i­cal; now I’m kinda wish­ing I had saved them for this blog, as they explore a lot of …

March 30, 2007 – 5:12 am | By ashok | Posted in links | Comments (1)

Lies, Truth and Our Lives

Inspired by “The Departed.” Thanks to Joshua Rocks for lis­ten­ing to and cri­tiquing these musings.Those related to us genet­i­cally know our worst ten­den­cies, and think they know of what we are capa­ble. Knowl­edge of one’s gen­e­sis and what came before should there­fore allow one to con­trol another, if one has such knowledge.It is against this …

March 29, 2007 – 6:04 am | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (2)

Teaching Rationality: On Death Cab for Cutie’s “Lightness”

Light­ness Death Cab for Cutie There’s a tear in the fab­ric of your favorite dress And I’m sneak­ing glances. Look­ing for the pat­terns in sta­tic They start to make sense the longer I’m at it. Ivory lines lead oo wha-ho, oo wha-ho Your heart is a river that flows from your chest through every organ. Your brain is …

March 28, 2007 – 3:25 am | By ashok | Posted in music | Tagged , | Comments (1)