Current Affairs: September 2003 Archives
I read Editor: Myself on occasion. Yesterday, Hossein Derakhshan, publsihed a good list of English language weblogs written by Iranian's around the world. It is worth exploring, good writing and points of view.
Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley writes an article each day on the global economic situation. Yesterday the article was titled Traction, Multipliers, and Leakages, about how the US economy is leaking jobs, especially in highly skilled areas like IT to India, with manufacturing going primarily to China. Mr. Roach calls this a policy induced recovery, not an actual economic recovery, and suggests that it may not continue. The article includes very good analysis to support his position.
Amazing!
A Rare View of 9/11, Overlooked From the NY Times: "They did not even see the pale fleck of the airplane streak across the corner of the video camera's field of view at 8:46 a.m. But the camera, pointed at the twin towers from the passenger seat of an S.U.V. in Brooklyn near the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, kept rolling when the plane disappeared for an instant and then a silent, billowing cloud of smoke and dust slowly emerged from the north tower, as if it had sprung a mysterious kind of leak." I can't even look at the pictures, just too painful for me, but this will probably be a major development in the next week.
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The Wave magazine took the replicant-or-human test from PK Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" (the basis for the film Blade Runner) and administered it to San Francisco's mayoral candidates. The results are highly amusing:
SUBJECT 4: TOM AMMIANO
It's your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet. How do you react?
Tom Ammiano: I'd look for money.TW: You've got a little boy. He shows you his butterfly collection plus the killing jar. What do you do? TA: I'd think this was Blade Runner. That's my reaction.
TW: You're watching television. Suddenly you realize there's a wasp crawling on your arm.
TA: Call 911.TW: You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, Tom, it's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back, Tom. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, Tom?
TA: That's interesting. I don't know. I'm a republican?TW: Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind. About your mother.
TA: Tenderness. Yelling.Link Discuss (Thanks, JeremyT)
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