GOOGLING TERRORISM AND THE SLAVISH FILIAL PIETY OF YURI KOCHIYAMA

by Colin Liddell

A recent Google "doodle" featured an obscure Japanese woman called Yuri Kochiyama, who – the image implied – was in some way connected to the overused abstract noun "EQUALITY."

This was deliciously ironic, as I then used that same company, Google, which has an almost monopolistic dominance of internet searches, to link to Wikipedia, a crowd-sourced entity that has a similarly dominant position with regard to online reference, to find out more. So much for "equality"!

SCHRODINGER'S INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST CAT: A PHILOSOPHICAL VIEW OF BIN LADEN'S DEATH

by Colin Liddell

In 1935, the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger conceived a famous thought experiment known as Schrödinger’s Cat to express a paradox that exists between unverified states in quantum mechanics. The basic idea Schrödinger wished to ridicule was that with two unobserved possibilities – in this case a cat in a box that was either dead or alive – both exist until the box is opened.

DUPERY OR CRANKERY AND THE DEATH OF OSAMA

In the modern information overload society, you
only have two choices – to be a dupe or a crank

by Colin Liddell

"God bless America! That evil, murdering scumbag Osama Bin Laden has been sent to meet his maker, Allah, and get his 72 virgin goats to fuck. May he rot/ burn/ boil/ marinade in hell, etc., etc., etc."

But before we get too carried away, a couple of points:

1. Were you there? And even if you were the hired help paid to dance around in a balaclava and shoot off blanks, do you actually know what was going on?
2. Does the American government ever lie about, twist, or distort the truth?

Without going into the numerous inconsistencies of the 9/11 story and the oddities of this case, like the fact that the body was quickly dumped in the sea, past instances of blatant deceit, like the WMD farrago that preceded the invasion of Iraq and more recent lies about Libya, should at least make us wary of swallowing anything originating from the U.S. government.