Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year
Tripping Along The Ledge
arnold schwarzenegger
Published: Mongrel magazine, August 2006Introduction to the ‘Revenge’ issue
“An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind”
Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth (1929)
“Somewhere… somehow… someone’s gonna pay!”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Commando (1985)
ON JULY 12, Hizbollah ambushed an Israeli army unit on the Israeli-Lebanese border. Three I.D.F. soldiers were killed and two captured. In retaliation, the Israelis launched a devastating month-long assault on southern Lebanon that killed hundreds and left much of the country’s infrastructure in ruins. As the region knuckled down for yet another bloody round of reprisal and counter-reprisal, the New York Times asked Harvard Professor Daniel Gilbert to explain the psychology that fuels such protracted strife. (He Who Cast The First Stone Probably Didn’t, July 24.) Read the rest of this entry »
SETTIN’ THE WOODS ON FIRE
Not trying to make light of the wildfires currently raging in California – I was in Malibu in February and saw the devastation from last year’s fires at first hand. But it seems to me that, for journalists over there at least, covering this story must be a bit like covering St. Patrick’s Day parades here. Read the rest of this entry »