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[aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south] Bill & Diane: It meant Isabel Allende, the novelist, and Amity Shlaes, the columnist for the Financial Times. It meant the former nun and best-selling author Karen Armstrong, and it meant the right-wing evangelical columnist Cal Thomas. It meant Arundhati Roy from India, Doris Lessing from London, David Suzuki from Canada, and Bernard Henry-Levi from Paris.

 [OUTSIDE MY WINDOW] THE WORLD'S 100 MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, COURTESY OF...: Well, I say, always better to be mistaken looking like you were selling jewelled words as soft and creamy as eyeshadow rather than vegetables as dowdy as old-fashioned jeans, at a marketplace.

 [moodlogic] Book Tag: When I was in high school I spent most of my time reading books and newspapers rather than playing or hanging out with friends. In 1992 satellite channels and cable television was introduced in Bangladesh and we bought a Panasonic colour television and that changed everything.

 [Leftists as Elitists] AN UNGRATEFUL ELITE Not long ago Pepsi Cola’s chi...: While the endless parade of Cable TV pundits that have effectively destroyed rational discussion in this country drone on and on about the “liberal elite,” they let it be taken as a given that the “moral majority” in the red states are somehow not elitist. We have come to believe that people who think that the rich should pay lower taxes, gays shouldn’t be allowed to get married (even in other states… but otherwise they’re for states’ rights), that those who do not share their religious convictions are immoral—and who just 40 years ago were rioting over having to share the sidewalk with a Darkie—could never be accused of elitism.

 [The Discerning Texan] VDH Skewers anti-American elites: Khan may have made his fortune and name in the British tabloids as a cricket star and international playboy of the London salons, a lifestyle that had strong affinities with the West rather than the madrassas. But now he is back in Pakistan crafting a political career and catering to the Islamists, even though religious extremism is antithetical to what allowed him to succeed and prosper abroad.

 [The Erebus + Terror (Je Suis Saves)] Another D””d, Thick Square Book!: Fu Manchu's Bride (other editions are more pleasingly titled The Bride of Fu Manchu) is the sixth in a series by Sax Rohmer. This particular novel brings the exclamatory Alan Sterling to the caves and compound of the ruthless Doctor Fu Manchu. The Doctor has evil designs—of course!—upon the world and seeks to conquer nations by methods that would probably seem far-fetched to ordinary warmongers like Napoleon or Attila the Hun.

[Vinod.com] Vinod's Blog:Arundhati Roy: The New American Century: This is a deep cultural faultline that flows well past myself and Roy.   "Tragics" like myself accept certain Laws as universal and impossible to skirt for long (deterrence, capitalism, Human Nature...).  Roy fundamentally has a hard time believing that the intricate code of conduct required by global capitalism could have spontaneously arisen.  Or that even War has it's own emergent logic that means we will NOT invade Russia to access their "God forbid, natural resources of value" and is why multi-party WMD deterrence is such a delicate game.

 [Factbites.com] Arundhati Roy - Factbites: Certainly it has sometimes seemed recently as if the words of the novel itself are being drowned out as the global media loudly celebrates Arundhati Roy's 'fairy tale literary debut'(which culminated in the recent announcement of the Booker Prize), often appearing more interested in marketing her image than in the contents of the book.

 [Citypages.com] City Pages - Arundhati Roy: <I>The Cost of Living </I>: The End of Imagination by Arundhati Roy reflections on India's testing of nuclear ... But rather than using these dams as tools to bring water to villages, ...

 [Madhoo.com] Dancing with Dogs: And Arundhati Roy weeped...: It has narrowed our focus and allowed the upper crust to cosolidate their power while the “masses” have polarized and bicker over the crumbs they have left behind. Arundhati is inflammatory in her words, but her rhetoric is an attempt to wake people up to the big picture. A seemingly immpossible task when confronted with people that see only two sides to any problem.

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