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Well, for one thing, Facebook has made political involvement so easy as to be meaningless. Anyone can, for example, lend support to the hundreds of Darfur groups on Facebook and, in doing so, proclaim their commitment to the issue. Not only do such groups usually accomplish nothing, but they also promulgate the disturbing idea that joining a Facebook group is somehow a contribution to democracy. Groups are, in this way, more harmful than beneficial. The voices of those who could affect real change are drowned, simply because by the 501st Facebook group, no one is left listening...
...firmness doesn't have to lead to confrontation. The only realistic option for containing North Korea is the same as what it was before the test. It's easy for nuclear wannabes to decry the hypocrisy of the great powers and proclaim their right to join the nuclear club; but once they get there, they have to play by the club's rules. Kim Jong Il may have believed that getting the bomb was the best way to defend himself against the threat of regime change; but should he ever use his new weapon, regime change - administered in the form...
...Meanwhile, the Amish in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, are sticking by their traditional rituals to the letter. And they?re having to fight off helicopters and TV trucks to do it. For them, there is no need to publicly proclaim one?s depth of grief, for even this is ritualized - during the funeral processions, each buggy hangs a number on the side; the lower the number, the closer the connection to the deceased. The mothers of the girls will wear black for a year. The schoolhouse will likely be burned down, so there won?t be a structure that, just...
...called on Obrador to concede, as have many foreign nations. Although his opponent won by less than 1 percent, Mexico’s electoral court declared the process valid and European election monitors testify that, for once, there was no fraud. Yet López Obrador decided to proclaim himself the “legitimate president,” and to promise the impossible to impoverished angry masses. At this point, regardless of whether the vote count was exactly right, Obrador is the real danger is to the health of the Mexican Republic...
...divine. But there is still something we will never grasp, something we can never know--because God is beyond our human categories. And if God is beyond our categories, then God cannot be captured for certain. We cannot know with the kind of surety that allows us to proclaim truth with a capital T. There will always be something that eludes us. If there weren't, it would...