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Perspective on military occupation

Military occupation generates resistance because it is humiliating, disruptive, arbitrary and sometimes terrifying to its objects, even when the occupying power is acting from more-or-less benevolent motives. If you’ve ever been caught in a speed trap ...

From SUJAL, FatMixx,  24 Nov 2009

Best defense of Newsweek so far – still weak, though

We’ve been chatting on Twitter about the Newsweek Palin cover. Consensus is that it was a really stupid cover choice by Newsweek. The defenses I’ve read online for Newsweek have been pretty week. The best one, so far has come from Lindsay ...

From SUJAL, FatMixx,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Newsweek,  Sarah Palin,  Twitter Inc

Har Ek Baat – Midival Punditz & Karsh Kale

I know, two songs from the same album back-to-back, but I like the album. It’s different than most of the stuff I listen to, for sure. It is, however, really good. This is a cheesy song (Lerche describes it as show tune-y in the video), but it’s fun ...

From SUJAL, FatMixx,  9 Nov 2009

“Words & Music” by Sondre Lerche

I love the strings in this song. It reminds me of a lot of Bollywood songs when I was a kid. I first heard Sondre Lerche on the Dan in Real Life soundtrack. It was a great soundtrack. This is off his new album, also titled Heartbeat Radio. Haven’t ...

From SUJAL, FatMixx,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bollywood,  Sondre Lerche (musician)

Not every problem is a nail and we have more than just hammers

Note: I wrote this in May. I had a larger post in mind, but ran out of time. I think I wanted to expand on some places where I was particularly blunt. Anyway, this seems worth posting as is. Hope it’s worth reading. My observation was that a number of ...

From SUJAL, FatMixx,  7 Nov 2009

“Heartbeat Radio” by Sondre Lerche

Why is this all goofy looking? Probably because your browser doesn't support stylesheets or you have an old stylesheet. Try hitting reload or upgrade your browser today. You may recognize this from just about every iPhone app commercial. (actual song ...

From SUJAL, FatMixx,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bollywood,  Sondre Lerche (musician)

Polanski deserves jail time

I’ve been reading the defenses of Roman Polanski and continue to be unswayed by any of them. All the defenses come back to the same three or four points: Prosecutorial or judicial misconduct of some kind 50 years was an unfair sentence it was so long ...

From SUJAL, FatMixx,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Roman Polanski,  Marc Rich

Fines and penalties in health care reform

I just had an exchange on Facebook that I feel like expanding on here. I’m going to anonymize the people, but suffice to say the person is a person I respect but with whom I rarely agree politically: Don’t want to buy the proposed mandatory health ...

From SUJAL, FatMixx,  26 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.

Binoculars for looking at butterflies and insects? Who knew?

A while ago, I was looking at (and tweeted about) some dude’s travel gear list and noticed a nice pair of binoculars in the pack, a pair of Pentax Papilio 8.5×21 binoculars. I saved it to my Amazon Wish List and this year Heidi bought them for me for ...

From SUJAL, FatMixx,  19 Sep 2009

Interdependencies

I only watched about 20 minutes of the documentary The Last Truck on HBO today, but already I want to recommend the film. It’s short, interesting, and timely. Using interviews with workers, the doc covers the closing of GM’s Moraine Assembly Plant in ...

From SUJAL, FatMixx,  8 Sep 2009

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