Archive for June, 2007
Another criminal escapes justice on a technicality
Thursday, June 28th, 2007Interestingly, that’s not how the right-wing noise machine is approaching this story, about how some of the indictments against Tom DeLay have been thrown out. You’d think that people who have spent literally four decades decrying “judicial activism” and unjust outcomes of people “clearly” guilty, would be a-twitter that a judge and then an [...]
A complicated poster.
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007Yet another in the series of posters for the newly-rechristened Second Interworld War. This one is inspired by the many different posters that had streams of planes passing overhead in a not-too-subtle V formation. The purpose was to impress with the sheer excess of Allied production. And of course, the exhortation to [...]
War Between the Worlds, and its sequel
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007I’ve been making posters that, I’ve claimed, were from the First Interworld War. I’ve decided that, “really”, they’re from the Second Interworld War. The primary motivation for the change has been the realization that most of my inspirations are from WWII, not WWI. Also, this allows me to imagine, vaguely, that H.G. [...]
New posters
Thursday, June 21st, 2007More from the First Interworld War. One is an updated version of my very first Interworld War poster. The second has the tagline “See Action Now … Join the Rocket Service.”
My reasoning, and the actual posters, below the fold.
The Appeal of Apocalypse
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007What is so seductive about the end of the world?
Evidence of the eschatonic impulse are around us everywhere. Disaster movies often reign supreme in the theaters — and the bigger the disaster (Independence Day, Armageddon, etc.) the more successful the movie. Foreign policy seems more and more a push for one last throw [...]
Why I’m a Technophile
Sunday, June 17th, 2007For you to understand this post, there are two things about myself I should tell you — they’re already well-known to any of my friends:
I drink a lot of Coke.
I have catastrophically bad eyesight.
More below the fold.
Are you safer?
Monday, June 11th, 2007In today’s NY Times, Richard Cohen writes a piece that praises Hilary Clinton for having the “courage” to assert “I believe we are safer than we were” (before 9/11). Mr. Cohen lambastes what he sees as the knee-jerk reaction of her Democratic rivals, who (he says) reflexively bash everything associated with Bush, even those [...]
Ubi Dubium
Monday, June 11th, 2007There’s a nice little piece (”Better to Be Hamlet than President George” by Peter Birkenhead) in Salon today on the value of doubt and its sad lack in today’s political culture. It’s worth a read. (Perhaps I’m a bit biased, as I chose to name my original domain “ubidubium”, from the [...]
More from the First Interworld War
Saturday, June 9th, 2007Researching for this(!). I came across a great book called You Back the Attack — We’ll Bomb Who We Want, billed as “remixed war propaganda”. An artist named Micah Ian Wright took World War II propaganda posters (some from the Bad Guys) and reworked them to put a Bush Jr. spin on them. [...]