Daily Archive: May 21, 2003

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Revenge Of The Jihadi

I think their fundamental weakness stems from the undoubted fact that Bush et al are profoundly regressive and hierarchical people. Thus, they think in terms of cohorts and divisions, leaders, and roles. They think...

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Smart Bombs or Smart Dollars?

So which was more pivotal for the swiftness of the US invasion of Iraq? The 20th-Century industrialised warfare style routines of concerted fire-and-manoeuvre, or the refreshingly 19th Century imperialist conquest style of bribery and...

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Turnips Ahoy

There’s a standard carnivorist theory that a transformation around 2 MYears ago of hominids from omnivorous, opportunistic scavengers to dedicated, meat-eating Home Erectus hunters was the necessary and sufficient condition that drove the evolution...