I have been avoiding this blog for several days. Instead, I've been going through a long overdue update of www.CipherJournal.com, which in my laziness I can claim to be enough of a writing activity that I can supplant my blog entries with it.

Today, though, I watched the Loose Change documentary, expounding a conspiracy theory about the attacks of september eleventh. It has nothing to do with translation, labor, or academic culture, but I thought it was important enough to link from this page.

I don't have the wherewithal to disprove, or even counter, anything in the documentary, and I find it compelling and striking if not ultimately convincing. In the end, I'm not sure that the Republicans would sacrifice the stability of business for any goal. Nonetheless, I take the point of Loose Change to be one of sponsoring incredulity, rather than promoting any particular narrative itself. And if that is the case, then I throw in my support.