CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela’s anti-U.S. President Hugo Chavez said on Monday that an Iraqi reporter who flung his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush was courageous.
Chavez, who has himself hurled insults at the U.S. president over the years, said he was glad the shoes didn’t hit Bush but smiled broadly during a video of the incident played during a cabinet meeting broadcast on Venezuela television.
“It’s a good thing it didn’t hit him. I’m not encouraging throwing shoes at anybody, but really, what courage,” he said.
then i would never meet them
- essay on plato’s republic
- essay on arendt’s kant
- research proposal
Jacques-Alain Miller: Obama is the mirror-man of the Universe, the one that represents the world in its diversity, who reconciles within his own person the races and the sexes.
The Morning After,” copyright Zina Saunders 2008, from The Party’s Over, a “hilariously scathing visual chronicle of the McCain/Palin presidential campaign.” (Via BoingBoing)
i’ve always liked salt. i don’t add it to many foods, but on foods that do benefit from salt flavor, i found that there’s no limit to the amount of salt i can sprinkle on. i only remember one experience in my life that i ever said, about a meal, that it was too salty. the amount of salt i do add is determined by health and social concerns, rather than concerns about personal taste.
in a new interview, Jacques-Alain Miller reminds us why (on matters relating to love) we must keep reading Lacan:
Lacan used to say, ‘To love is to give what you haven’t got.’ Which means: to love is to recognize your lack and give it to the other, place it in the other. It’s not giving what you possess, goods and presents, it’s giving something else that you don’t possess, which goes beyond you.
says Sarkozy:
Self-regulation as a way of solving all problems is finished. Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.”
