by Charles Cameron | Dec 6, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — terror and games — an odd couple methinks, but one that’s not infrequently encountered ] . Pakistan Taliban umpire Shahidullah Shahid, left, speaks on Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, right. As you may know, I’m not too...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 14, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — where paradox begets form in phrasing, redux ] . Here for your entertainment and entrainment are some further instances where the tweet doubles back on itself, bites its tail, or otherwise embodies some form of “form”...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 4, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — AQ & Friends have adopted another of our technologies against us — this time it’s branding — what’s next — gamification? ] . Aymenn J Al-Tamimi tweeted to alert us to the ISIS school bag today, with the...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 7, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — beheadings and the questions they raise ] . ** Tim Furnish, friend of this blog, had a piece titled Beheading in the Name of Islam in the Middle East Quarterly back in 2005, in which he wrote: The February 2002 decapitation of Wall Street...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 27, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on the basis, the mathematics, the essence of conflict and resolution ] . . This DoubleQuote features two great masters on duality and the coincidentia oppositorum: the upper quote is Yogi Berra at his best, a koan worthy of a discourse by...