who was Huey Newton

Filed under: World Events + History, Soap Box + No Holds Barred Politics — admin August 17, 2006 @ 1:55 am

Huey Lewis, no. Huey Newton was an important black activist and founder of the black pnthers. Interesting read.

do you know there are laws in war?

Filed under: World Events + History — admin @ 1:38 am

Although ultimately war is all about the survival of one tribe against another, after WWII, the UN put together laws of war. I read about jus in bello and jus ad bellum in the economist recently.

The former refers to limits to the madness of war, a la the Geneva Conventions, and what is are war crimes. The latter refers to justifications for war.

word up to the pre-raphaelite brotherhood

Filed under: World Events + History, crimes, coverups + conspiracies — admin July 25, 2006 @ 12:24 am

Y’all know who the pre-raphaelites were, don’t you? Ok, I didn’t either until recently, but it’s a good read, and we’re down with them, yo!