Dylan’s blog Vox 2008-08-19T21:21:41Z Dylan http://dylanhorrocks.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d41435db1e3c7f/ Watch this interview: Andrew Bacevich on Bill Moyers' Journal tag:vox.com,2008-08-19:asset-6a00d41435db1e3c7f00fa9692f8660003 2008-08-19T04:01:17Z 2008-08-19T21:21:41Z Dylan http://dylanhorrocks.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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This is essential viewing for anyone trying to get their head round where America is at. Andrew Bacevich is the author of a number of important books, including The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War and, most recently, The...

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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization

An account of the build-up to World War 2, told through a series of brief vignettes and anecdotes (mostly taken from contemporary news reports, diaries and letters, and from later memoirs and biographies). Novelist Nicholson Baker says he wrote t...

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Humanity: The Moral History of the Twentieth Century (Pimlico)

Important and engrossing. I usually find ethical philosophy stupid and inane, but in this book Glover is really trying to squeeze some wisdom and insight out of the horrors of the 20th century. And he manages it, with some useful stuff about mo...

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]]> The dog ate Batman... tag:vox.com,2008-08-10:asset-6a00d41435db1e3c7f0100a7f0c875000e 2008-08-10T07:59:24Z 2008-08-10T07:59:24Z Dylan http://dylanhorrocks.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Chomp! Chomp! Chew! ... Good dog!

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]]> The Denial Machine tag:vox.com,2008-06-23:asset-6a00d41435db1e3c7f00fa96817cf90003 2008-06-23T02:22:42Z 2008-06-23T02:38:20Z Dylan http://dylanhorrocks.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

"The Denial Machine" - Tim Ball clip

The CBC's Fifth Estate investigates the misinformation campaign by climate change "skeptics" in this engrossing documentary. Depressing viewing, but if you have friends or relatives who've been confused by the "debate," try to persuade them to wa...

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]]> Recent reads... tag:vox.com,2008-06-23:asset-6a00d41435db1e3c7f00fa96817b6e0003 2008-06-23T01:58:05Z 2008-06-24T01:34:50Z Dylan http://dylanhorrocks.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning The Sea-wreck Stranger by Anna Mackenzie

An extraordinary book. Chris Hedges is a long-time war correspondent, who learnt the hard way that war is a drug: intoxicating, seductive, addictive and utterly poisonous. War, he makes clear, spiritually and morally poisons everyone and everythi...

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I'm Alan Partridge S2E2 Pt.1 Breakfast: Paul has a moment Pauls Laptop anger Paul Henry in Hollywood Paul Henry unsuccessfully tries to bully Russell Norman

Well, I recently finished watching the Alan Partridge saga - one series of Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge! and two series of I'm Alan Partridge - and it's surged to the top rank of my all-time favourite TV shows. Of course, if you...

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]]> Proust on the power and danger of reading tag:vox.com,2008-06-17:asset-6a00d41435db1e3c7f00fad6913db30005 2008-06-17T03:28:50Z 2008-06-17T03:28:50Z Dylan http://dylanhorrocks.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we would not have known how to enter, its role in our lives is salutary. It becomes dangerous, on the other hand, when, ...

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]]> The horror, the horror... tag:vox.com,2008-05-30:asset-6a00d41435db1e3c7f00fae8be6596000b 2008-05-30T22:34:25Z 2008-05-30T22:34:47Z Dylan http://dylanhorrocks.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Apocalypse Now Redux Coppola Bunnies

Well, it's taken me years, but I finally got round to watching Apocalypse Now (the Redux cut - I still haven't seen the original). I'm glad I read Heart of Darkness recently - and watched the 'making of' doco of (almost) the same name - because b...

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