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Monthly Archives: April 2005

IRS Winks at Rich Beadbeats, Cracks Down on the Poor

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Stroke the Rich
11 April 2005 | San Francisco Chronicle
by David Cay Johnston
IRS has become a subsidy system for super-wealthy Americans IRS winks at rich deadbeats.
The federal tax system that millions of Americans are forced to deal with before April 15 is not at all what you think [...]

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Times’ Coverage of Nicaragua Misleads and Propagandizes

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

by Brendan Lalor
To the editor of the New York Times:
Ginger Thompson?s April 5 piece, ?Old Foe of U.S. Trying for a Comeback in Nicaragua,? misleads about history and promulgates State Department propaganda. It is misleading because it depicts Daniel Ortega as an anti-democratic ?strongman? who lost in 1990 when he finally agreed to an election. [...]

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“A Moment of Silence”

Wednesday, April 6, 2005

by Emmanuel Ortiz
Before I start this poem,
I’d like to ask you to join me in
a moment of silence
in honour of those who died
in the World Trade Centre
and the Pentagon
last September 11th.
I would also like to ask you
a moment of silence
for all of those who have been
harassed, imprisoned, disappeared,
tortured, raped, or killed
in retaliation for those strikes,
for [...]

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Principles of Categorization

Saturday, April 2, 2005

by Eleanor Rosch, University of California, Berkeley, 1978
Readings in Cognitive Science, a Perspective from Psychology and Artificial Intelligence, Allan Collins & Edward E. Smith, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, California, 1988, pp 312-322.
The following is a taxonomy of the animal kingdom. It has been attributed to an ancient Chinese encyclopedia entitled the Celestial Emporium of [...]

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