A Note

I know enough about economics to know that the more something demanded is delayed, the greater the demand is. Full updates, then, will come in a bit.

I also know enough about blog writing to know that when you're drunk, you shouldn't write in detail about events in your life. For instance, speed dating.

See you later.

Some weblinks

The New York Times obituary for Madame Chiang Kai-Shek is fascinating. In terms of the length of her life, her power at her height, and her outliving of her historical role, she rather reminds me of Napoléon III's wife Eugénie.

Danny Postel's interview of Canadian academic Shadia Drury at Open Democracy on the very problematic nature of Leo Strauss and his influence in the American political establishment is worth attention, if only because of the implications of her claims. (See Crooked Timber, here and here, for a more critical take on Strauss and Shadia.)

The recent tumult over Syphon Filter's plans to show a Québec terrorist group attacking Toronto, using biological weapons on innocent Torontonians and machine-gunning people generally, was amusing.

Patrick Belton, at Oxblog, links to a correspondent's fascinating description of life in the United Arab Emirates.

From Tendencias, an overview of migration in the Americas and Latin America.

Finally, from the Guardian of the United Kingdom, one readable article on literature transformed into music, another a touching story of a mother's reaction to her teenage son's announcement that he was gay.

Adam Yoshida Notes

Adam Yoshida is a young Japanese-Canadian currently resident in British Columbia who has a penchant for making fairly radical statements (to put it mildly). I first met him on soc.history.what-if, as he wrote on usenet about such things as the racial inferiority of the Chinese and the Iraqis, the gaming joys of mass murder, and a peculiar hatred for Canada.

Malaclypse the Seeker has already noticed Adam's presence on livejournal, and in the course of the past couple of months he has posted a variety of bloodthirsty screeds calling for American domination, a morally reactionary public policy towards non-heterosexuals, and a general bloodlust (crossposted, of course, to gay, anti-war, et cetera livejournal communities) to livejournal. (They were more entertaining than his bad Buffy vampire fictions.) Alas, he has been kicked off of livejournal.

But now you can go to his website!