My links for 01 June 2008 through 02 June 2008, gathered semi-automatically:
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10 Steps to a Fascist America
Naomi Wolf reckons the US has taken the initial steps towards becoming a Fascist state. What’s interesting about the comments at Why We Worry is that most posters seem to think Wolf said the US was already a Nazi dictatorship — which she didn’t.
The Ghost of Cho Seung-hui
Watch out. That weird foreign student in trenchcoat and shades. Does he ever talk to anyone? That’s suspicious. What’s he writing? A play about murder and rape? Arrest him. Now! Quick! Check everyone else! Get their psychology profiled! Watch them. Watch them closely!
Cho Seung-hui took a beautiful photo of his bullets and posed with his guns before he blew away 32 fellow humans — roughly a quarter of the number killed in Iraq by suicide bombs yesterday — and was presumably one seriously sick individual. But in that obese, self-centred tangle of hypocrisy that is America the reaction is, as usual, wrong…