Hump Day Reading #5
Welcome to the fifth issue of Hump Day Reading, where I compile a small collection of links to letters, blog posts, articles, opinions, columns, videos, and pictures for your intellectual enjoyment.
Feedback is always welcome!
- The splendid Mr Glenn Greenwald, formerly of the wondrous Salon.com, has jumped ship to the US version of The Guardian - and has taken his acerbic tones with him.
- Also from The Guardian, but just as poignant and prescient: the Israeli trial and ruling that uncovered the extent to which the IDF terrorises the Palestinian people.
- Many of you can probably tell that I am huge fan of Christopher Hitchens. It's coming up on the one year anniversary of his death, and Emily Landau has some wonderful insight in to The Hitch's deathbed writing.
- Carrying on in the same vein, many of you may also know I'm also a huge fan of F. Scott Fitzgerald. So, Hitch writing about Fitzgerald? It's a heavenly vision!
- Some slightly humourous bits and bobs, too, today. Who knew that Photoshop could make Mitt Romney look so...normal?
- And from Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator (which I reviewed here), I take this monologue.
- From the NYT photography blog, an NPPA lawyer answers some good questions on photojournalism.
- And finally, Nelson Jones for lefty rag the New Statesman asks some interesting questions about atheism as movement, rather than a personal position.Latest
- 1:44 pm $75m retirement village for Hobsonville Point
- 1:43 pm East Coast hapu signs $23m settlement
- 1:40 pm Change needed in disability sector
- 1:39 pm Crowds flock to Bluff Oyster and Food Festival
- 1:37 pm No cooperation over Christmas Day death
- 1:32 pm Family ripped off Taupo businessman, skipped town
- 1:29 pm Waikato surgeons pioneer heart technique
- 1:24 pm Treacherous weather conditions
- 1:14 pm Golf: Ko won't defend US Amateur title
- 12:16 pm Man shot in Panmure
Opinion
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Ken Ring
May 14, 11:46 amWhy climate is unlikely to be changingHumans walk at about three miles an hour, and run at around five. It is the shape and musculature of the human body that determines this. We are nei...
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James Robins
May 15, 2:33 pmAP, DOJ, GCSBI've joined Twitter. Follow me here: @James_ARobins“Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose” – G...
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On the radar
May 22, 9:08 amBase jumper escapes death after parachute failsA base jumper who has performed more than 180 successful jumps is lucky to be alive.Matthew Gough's latest conquest would have been a 1,000 foot clif...
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