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Brand Me Apple

On: January 26th, 2007 at 4:53 pm | Number of Comments » 0

Now I just pontificated about not having any great desire to be indentified as a patriot and yet I have no problem pledging fealty to Apple. Seems like I’m not the only one who recognizes a great brand. Apple placed second this year globally as the top brand (Google edged it out) and number one [...]

Japanese Neo-Nationalism

On: January 26th, 2007 at 4:41 pm | Number of Comments » 8

Japan’s new prime minister, Abe Shinzo, is living up to his reputation, advocating revision of Japan’s Constitution to eliminate Article 9 (the no-war clause) and the fostering of “patriotic education” that will instill a sense of pride in Japan’s youth. That’s just great. Let’s combine rearmament with the kind of nationalistic education that was used [...]