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A Personal Parrot

Here’s a story that seems to say something…something deep about the human condition.  Or maybe it’s just funny?  I’m going with “deep”’.
The story is about a man by the name of Jim Eggers and his parrot, Sadie. Eggers suffers from bipolar disorder, “psychotic tendencies,” and the occasional homicidal impulse. He’s been to court for throwing [...]

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Hope and Charity

I’ve been worried, for a while, about the motivations for action when one’s consequences are minimal.  Why vote or recycle or go veggie or give £5 to Oxfam if your teeny contribution can have no serious effects?  I had a short conversation with someone about charitable acts, and it has me thinking.

He spent some time [...]

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Proportionality, Gaza & Israel

As Israel continues ground operations in Gaza, the casualties continue to grow. Not surprisingly, the civilians are suffering the most. As Thucydides wrote, “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” Of course, the suffering is not all on one side. Hamas continues to launch random rocket attacks into Israel [...]

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Proportionality, Gaza & Israel

As Israel continues ground operations in Gaza, the casualties continue to grow. Not surprisingly, the civilians are suffering the most. As Thucydides wrote, “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” Of course, the suffering is not all on one side. Hamas continues to launch random rocket attacks into Israel [...]

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A Right to Self-Defence?

Over at a blog called Shiraz Socialist (which actually is a lot saner a place than many of the ’socialist’ blogs), a fella called John Game, who is something to do with the Socialist Workers Party (a very small British Trotskyist party), makes this claim:
Israel has no right to self defence so long as the [...]