David Stanway: SARS in a Wilderness of Mirrors

There is an old Chinese folk tale in which a fool deposits 300 pieces of silver in a hole. In order to conceal his largesse, he puts up a sign nearby to announce that "300 pieces of silver do not lie here." The moral of the tale was that the more you try to cover something up, the more obvious it is that something is being concealed.

Via Butterflies and Wheels. They also link to some interesting stuff like Paul Berman's review of Jean Bethke Elshtain's JUST WAR AGAINST TERROR: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, which he quotes as attacking those for whom

America was always a villain and never a victim, and American military response was always a catastrophe, never a measured act of self-defense or a humanitarian boon.

And to D.M. Gorman's Prevention Programs And Scientific Nonsense. More depressing po-mo.