Author Archives: Anton

“terrorism futures”

Posted on Saturday, 2005 March 19 by Anton

Robin Hanson reports: I just produced the following draft (PDF), which tries a new statistical approach on the question of which side is “right” in a media controversy. I applied it to the coverage of PAM, but it might also … Continue reading →

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immunizing against immune response

Posted on Saturday, 2005 March 19 by Anton

Carol Moore passes along a column by Harvey Wasserman which contains this: Anti-Defamation League Director Abraham Foxman has played the holocaust card for the Republicans, saying “It is hideous, outrageous and offensive for Senator Byrd to suggest that the Republican … Continue reading →

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yet another unscientific measurement

Posted on Monday, 2005 March 14 by Anton
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movies 1962

Posted on Sunday, 2005 March 13 by Anton

Jules et Jim (dir. Truffaut). It took me a long time to sort out that the one with an English name is French and the one with a French name is German. I find that in French a German accent … Continue reading →

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evil metaphor

Posted on Saturday, 2005 March 05 by Anton

Ever wonder about the use of the word liquidation as euphemism for political murder? It’s not in Webster’s New International, 2d ed. of 1952.

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out of the frying-pan

Posted on Saturday, 2005 March 05 by Anton

Now that I’m not sick anymore, I’m bored!!

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au cinéma 1961

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 March 02 by Anton

The Misfits (dir. John Huston). I dropped it after about forty minutes; it might be more enjoyable if I hadn’t read of its history. The script spends too much of the time exclaiming how wonderful the writer’s wife is. Clark … Continue reading →

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