Morning thoughts

Regarding your defeatism: Did you see the story awhile back about Edison Schools in Pennsylvania and what happened to the first major public school run by a private company? I personally don't have the link, but the gist of it: Total disaster. I wouldn't expect anything less from a Bush. But we need to hype the things that prove them wrong.


Regarding London: Cnn's first headline, and no I don't know how to capture it, is "Terror Hits London". Which actually isn't true. Terrorists attacked, or "hit" if you will, London. This is the problem with the "war on terror", just as all the other dumb "wars" we have had like on poverty and drugs. You can't have a war on a tactic. You cannot personify a tactic. Terror just doesn't float around in an ephemeral world waiting for somewhere to "hit" Such a conception, inherent in the words "war on terror" denies the required human agency for terrorist attacks to occur. In fact, the words "terrorist attacks" is a much better word because the "terrorist" part puts the blame squarely where it belongs, namely on a human being known as a terrorist.

The name of the group sounds made up, but probably is real. By made up I mean they sound like a bunch of amatuers. The Secret Al Qaeda Jihad Organization in Europe. That sounds like being put on "double secret probation." I don't doubt that the attacks were likely carried out by islamic extremists, I am attempting to make fun of those guys. I guess I should express some relief that it is someone other than Catholics bombing London these days. That might have been in poor taste.