by Charles Cameron | Dec 22, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the history and dwindling significance of a sign ] . ** In my previous post in this series, Black Banners in Sydney 1: a DoubleQuote in the Wild from Ardeet, I wrote: The flag in the image from the Lindt cafe is not in fact the Daesh /...
by Charles Cameron | Dec 22, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — feeling kinship with the cartoonist who calls himself Ardeet ] . ** As my regular readers know by now, I have a “form” I use for juxtaposing ideas — verbal, visual, and even mathematical on occasion — that I term...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 9, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — perhaps it’s time we took the evident upside-downness of the world more upside-down-seriously ] . ** I’ve run across death by crucifix twice this week, once in an episode of Sons of Anarchy, and once in what purported to be an...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 21, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in response to a comment by Zen on a previous post — swastikas, anarchist flags, Gadsden flags, black banners, and their various variants ] . Yesterday, in response to my piece on Black Banners in the Washington Post Zen commented:...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 20, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the one point missing IMO in an otherwise fine piece ] . ** In WaPo, under the header How the violent Islamic State extremists got their signature flag, Abby Phillip tackles what I believe is a very significant question, that of the black...
