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AIRlift on May 1st
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Aziz Poonawalla
My friend, the writer G. Willow Wilson, is the author of the comic book series AIR which has been getting rave reviews and recognition. But AIR is more than a book, it’s also a cause! I’ll let Willow explain: Whacky as it is, AIR is a book with a message. So, for every copy of…
Islamic finance and magical money
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Aziz Poonawalla
This is a great article in the London Review of Books about Islamic finance, in the context of the global banking crisis. I found this excerpt particularly insightful: One of the central differences between the Islamic and conventional approaches to finance is that our own cults – which may well see a revision before the…
Arlen Specter’s statement regarding switching parties
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Aziz Poonawalla
The news first broke on twitter, by @marcambinder, and was later confirmed by Chris Cillizza and Redstate: formerly Republican Senator Arlen Specter will switch parties and become a Democrat, giving the Dems a 60-seat majority in the Senate. Here’s the complete statement from Sen. Specter: “I have been a Republican since 1966. I have…
swine flu conspiracy theories and politics as usual
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Aziz Poonawalla
In my last post I made the mistake of asserting that swine flu was not yet contagious between humans – that’s not true and it’s why the disease is being taken seriously by the health community. I think it is important to recognize that the reason we can snark about the public paranoia about swine…
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