Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows - Even in the Same Party

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Boehner, Cantor and the Debt vs. Cuts vs. Taxes debate. Speaker John Boehner sees that the Democrats by virtue of the election results are l...
Monday, December 31, 2012

2013: The Future Is Unwritten

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Impossible to predict. Plan for the worst. Hope for the best. Dream a little dream. Joy lies more often in the potential than in the real. W...

On the Brink

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2013 looks like a year of tax increases no matter what- whether we go over the fiscal cliff or not. What the impact may be on working stif...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

The 'Django' Debate Unchained: Seeking a Post-Tarantino Society?

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Does 'Django''s pop sensibility expand and prompt awareness of the reality of slavery in the USA and its after effects encouragi...
Friday, December 28, 2012

NPR: Is 'Django' the Blackest Film Ever?

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Revenge fantasy. Empowerment. Black power. I was watching Sophie's Choice the other night and in the scenes at the camps there were tho...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Merry Christmas!

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Monday, December 24, 2012

Reconstruction and Crisis in Haiti as Redevelopment Falters Following 2010 Earthquake

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World attention focused on Haiti following the earthquake on January 10, 2010. However, nearly three years after the initial resolve to bri...
Friday, December 21, 2012

When James Westerberg Came to Brooklyn: Iggy Pop in Bath Beach (Circa 1982)

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..."An Italian-American roadie of Iggy’s suggested he move to Bensonhurst (“a Mafia neighborhood”) to get away from the temptations and...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Tis the Season: The Ramones' "Merry Christmas I Don't Want to Fight Tonight"

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Chuck Close On Art and Disabilities:“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up for work.”

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Last spring, we saw Chuck Close up close at The Armory Show on the West Side. The crowds literally parted as Mr. Close, in his high tech whe...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Ad Absurdum Gloriam: Bob Dylan's 'Must Be Santa'

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Bob Dylan+His Band+Nash Edgerton: What a Combo!

Don Henley and Bruce Hornsby: 'End of the Innocence'

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Don Henley - The End Of The Innocence by jpdc11
Monday, December 17, 2012

Mourning Notes

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This morning, my sister, an elementary school teacher in a Catholic school, texted me that the prayer chanted by Rabbi Praver at the memoria...

"This dark, horrible world": A Mother's Grief in Connecticut

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"It was early Sunday, the first time that Veronique Pozner had seen the boy’s body since he was shot to death in his first-grade classr...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

Why Mass Murder?

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One theory here http://www.academia.edu/1199492/Hegemonic_Masculinity_and_Mass_Murderers_in_the_United_States