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At the Huffington Post, Robert Naiman's story headlined Obama Invokes "Just War," But Is the War in Afghanistan "Just"? begins

"Accepting Peace Prize, Obama Evokes 'Just War,'" notes the headline in the New York Times, referring to President Obama's speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. President Obama did indeed invoke the concept of a "just war."

Writer Naiman goes on to pedantically review just war doctrine, explaining how the war in Afghanistan fails to meet the criteria, and notes how Obama never said it did: Obama simply invoked the concept.

INVOKE. NOT EVOKE.

It appears that the NY Times gets this because the headline now reads Accepting Peace Prize, Obama Offers ‘Hard Truth’, and the only 'voking mentioned is in the body of the text:

The Nobel chairman, Thorbjorn Jagland, opened the ceremony by explaining how the committee came to its decision two months ago. He said Mr. Obama’s leadership had been a “call to action for all of us.” As he invoked the story of Dr. King, the winner of the prize in 1964, he turned to Mr. Obama, saying, “Dr. King’s dream has come true.”

My pendantic comment is not displayed: i wonder how many other pendants railed against the paper.



Meanwhile, The San Francisco Panorama is is stunning. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/ari/sets/72157622964162740/ It's *huge*. I think the hugeness of it hits me because it is NOT half adverts, it is full of fascinating things to read and look at, and i'm full and i've hardly started.

Also, it's big and unwieldy. Kinda hard to hold.

But wow oh wow.

Now, i am *not* some Nicholson Baker fangirl who swoons at the thought of print (oh -- the ink doesn't rub off!). I *do* read long articles on-line and i *do* read comics on-line. I ... [gets lost in food section, drawn to the fifty some image story about butchering lamb....]