Posted on Tuesday, 31 July, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
For better or worse I’ve managed to get WordPress to install the bulk of the TMICSIT blog posts here under the The “This Much I can Say is True” archive category. Can’t say much about the formatting, so if you really start looking back to the past it could get a little hinky. The TMICSIT blog now has an auto-forward on it, so going there will just lead you back here.
Did you actually click on it?
See, it led you back here.
TMICSIT served me well and even made it into the Jerusalem Post once, a while ago. It now looks a bit like ass due to blogger’s new way of using themes. I could have remade it, but figured to leave it alone since I was moving here. In order to export posts I had to update to Blogger 2.0 and that pretty much killed the theme I had made for it while sitting at Caffe Vita in Olympia the day before my plane to Ben Gurion was to leave Sea-Tac way back in 2005.
So, for those who still enjoy bitching at me in the comments area about something I posted way back in August of 2006 or some such time on TMICSIT, you can still keep at it right here in this blog’s comments, and I hope to come up with a few new items that will piss you off as well.
Posted on Monday, 30 July, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
There was this guy named Calvin — who I once met by hanging out with people who worked for the International Trauma Treatment Program in Olympia — who always balked at the idea that torture, as many of its detractors alleged, didn’t work. Calvin ran one of Uganda’s many refugee camps through Pilgrim and was himself a survivor of all sorts of horrors and the first to admit that anyone can be driven to give up anything under the right conditions.
Torture can make anyone tell their tormentor exactly what he wants to hear. If he wants to hear that an insurgency or operation or whatever is doing either this or that, the victim will divine exactly what he needs to say and eventually say it so convinsingly that she or he will even believe it himself.
So it’s not in and of itself stunning news that much of the United States government’s bad intelligence about Iraq is the result of the use of torture. What is interesting is the how of torture, though, and possibly the why, which are both explored in Katherine Eban’s Vanity Fair online article on the use of psychological torture by the U.S. military’s reverse-SERE program. People are getting job skills in today’s Army, it’s just not the sort of jobs in computer repair that those recruting ads tout. — Link
Posted on Monday, 30 July, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
I’ve managed to move into my new site before we’ve moved into our new flat, likely for the sheer reason that no havey lfiting is involved and it creates a nice diversion from work for the moment.It’s …
Posted on Monday, 30 July, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
This could get ugly for a little while.
Welcome to drew3ooo dot net’s shiny new blog, Spiffy. It’s called “spiffy” because that’s what I thought about about the Mandigo WordPress theme I’m currently using. Here at d3net, we’re (that’s the editorial we) hoping that Spiffy will eventually live up to its name and be the blog for the site as opposed to its centerpiece. This is intended to be my laboratory. I generally decided to create it to:
- Keep various scattered friends updated as to my recent shenanigans
- Do like all good mad scientists do and expirement on myself before trying out schemes on my Movement Studio patrons.
- Consolidate random other blogs here under one pixel roof.
- Waste time.
- Have yet another vehicle for listing things.
I work on this blog when I feel like taking a break form working on other people’s blogs. Oh, the action-packed life! I know. Recent work has included The Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project and the International Trauma Treatment Program. Currently I’m building a new website (as of yet unreleased) for the Rachel Corrie Foundation. Having a .net is my way of taking a rest from all the .orgs in my life.
Outside of the occasional life updates about moving to a new country, being engaged, figuring out how UK real estate laws work, job hunting and so forth, general interests continue to include: beer, coffee, comics, flicks, literature, design, tech, current events, lefty politics.
Those few media types who checked it out during it’s brief lifespan, may recall poisonkitchen.com, which was home to my media fixation while I was a daily newspaperman myself. The few who have either linked to, or left pithy remarks in comment area on This Much I Can Say is True, my ISM blog, will know that my blogs tend to carry a bit about the Middle East, with an emphasis on Palestine and Israel and, even more so, an emphasis on what a bad idea a 40-year military occupation really is, either doing it or paying for it. Posts tend to be most frequent during the small a.m. hours of weekdays and drop off during National Novel Writing Month in November.
Spiffy blog goals:
- Content leads to the impeachment of George W. Bush.
- Content is devoid of annoying (potentially animated) emoticons.
- Content is parlayed into some ingenious moneymaking scheme.
- Content does not lead to embarrassing rashes.
- Content includes multiple lists.
There are, of course, no guarantees.
I know now that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred towards anyone.
