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Some More Reading

Saturday, March 18, 2006

“The Fear of God: The Religious Right is Afraid to Speak and the Left is Afraid to Listen” in Saturday’s Ottawa Citizen. The article reports on a conference organized by the newly minted — with the support of Reform Party founder and son of a preacher man, Preston Manning — Manning Centre for Building [...]

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More Pirates in the News

Saturday, November 5, 2005

Pirates attack luxury cruise ship off Africa
Crew able to fight off smaller vessels
LONDON (AP) — Pirates fired a rocket-propelled grenade and machine-guns Saturday in an attack on the luxury cruise liner Seabourn Spirit off the coast of the east African nation of Somalia, the vessel’s owners said.
One crew member was slightly injured before the attackers [...]

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Cop-Out Post

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Arr! Pirate treasure!
Setting up the house is taking much longer than I thought. Real entries soon.

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Pirate Democracy

Friday, August 26, 2005

Apologies to whoever actually looks at this: I have been out of town since Sunday in (what appears as counter-intuitive) to prepare to move. Computer access — and the desire to write anything — has been intermittent at best. What is ‘at best’, however, is the factory outlet at Hershey’s in Smith Falls. [...]

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Pirates, Terrorists, Homo Sacer

Saturday, August 20, 2005

Jon Beasley-Murray wrote a few weeks ago, “it is the terrorists who are the inheritors of piracy’s historic tradition.” It is surprising that it has taken this long for attention to be drawn to the similarities between pirates of the early modern era to terrorists of the postmodern era — or, perhaps, the similarity [...]

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