Ed Bilodeau has posted an excerpt from a 1928 Professional Ethics article. As he says, “how things have changed.”
Archives for 2004
Iraq Update:
everyone must know by now that former “White Knight”, pal of the Pentagon, and friend of neocons everywhere Ahmad Chalabi and his nephew have been charged with forgery (Ahmad) and murder (the nephew, Salem). Glad this is working out so well over there.
An important story that I missed
while on vacation was the story about the Bush administration’s reversal on an extremely important issue, the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty. Basically, this is a long-sought treaty that will compel states to no longer produce new fissile material – i.e., material that can be used to make weapons. US policy has always been to support the treaty with a strong verification plan, but last week, the US changed its policy on the nuke pact. As you can see by the chronology on this issue, this is a big reversal of policy. But as I have argued before, this is entirely in line with the mainstream of US foreign policy, which for years (since Reagan and GHW Bush and accellerating through Clinton and GW Bush) has been to commit other states to treaties that do not bind the US.
Two things to note. First, as usual, Bush says that he supports something (FMCT) and acts against it. Second, the ultra-conservative Washington Times gets the story exactly backwards, in what is obviously a willful editorial decision to misinform the paper’s readers.
The Guardian Unlimited
has published another great article about blogs: The blog busters.
Another celebrity death:
Singer Rick James died on Thursday. The CNN article glosses over what, for many, is the weirdest aspect of his history. The CNN article reads, “James was reported AWOL [from the army], and he fled to Canada, where he continued his musical career. The charges came back to haunt him when his success brought him back to the United States, and eventually he served time.”
What that leaves out is that he “continued his musical career” in a group called the Mynah Birds, with none other than Neil Young as his bandmate. The band signed to Motown, and when Rick and Neil (and others) were driving from Toronto to Detroit, James was arrested. That spelled the end of the band, although there was an album in the can by that point – work that has never been heard by the public. The main question: how would modern music have been changed if the Mynah Birds had released that album and achieved success with it? No Buffalo Springfield, likely no CSNY, and Rick James in the public consciousness as a rocker, not a funkster, about 13 years earlier, overlapping with the career of Jimi Hendrix.
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