Friday, December 6, 2013

"Hold a Dollar Bill Up to a Mirror": Slow Growth, No Growth, Inequality and Social Mobility and What Still Needs to Be Done

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"Hold a dollar bill up to a mirror/  And I'll show you something funny/  It's only a fast buck, but..../  It's so hard ...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Farewell, Madiba: Nelson Mandela 1918 -2013

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Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Wednesday: Delicate Steve: Ramona Reborn

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Sunday, December 1, 2013

Musings for a Sunday in Late Autumn

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It's December first in Brooklyn/Steam still rattling the pipes/Leaves just a memory, like Santa in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parad...
Saturday, November 30, 2013

A Brief Epistle from Alex Battles

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The ever intriguing Alex Battles has overcome greater odds than website failure no doubt, so the King of Brooklyn Country, author of Hong Ko...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Channel This: Groundbreaking Bob Dylan "Like a Rolling Stone" Interactive Video

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Listen up all you Princes and Pretty People: Bob Dylan's official website just released "Like a Rolling Stone" like you've...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art-"if you meet the visionary on the road.."

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Mona Lisa by Dedron 2012 Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at the State University of New York at New Paltz se...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

It Was Snowing in Brooklyn!

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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Say It Ain't So: Corgis-- An Endangered Breed

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Guinevere, in repose, contemplating the future of the Breed. The New York Post reports that "The Queen of England’s favorite ...
Friday, November 1, 2013

Ain't No Stopping Him Now: Bill deBlasio in the Bronx

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Bill deBlasio is touching New Yorkers in their hopes and in their hearts. As reported in Politicker, he wowed Halloween crowds in the Bronx ...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Behold the Man: Zizek on Ideology

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He hates the celebrity that is imposed upon him -- summed up in labels like "the rock star philosopher" and "Elvis of cultura...

NYC Mayoral Race: Getting Down to the Wire

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WHAT WOULD LHOTA DO? Running things, it ain't easy (especially when it comes to campaigns) NY TIMES article here Bill deBlasio: Blend...
Friday, October 25, 2013

The National Insecurity State

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Germany and Brazil approach the United Nations to restrain U.S. National Security Agency's surveillance of communications by foreign lea...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

"The Book of Lamentations"-5

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A review of a "new dystopian novel in the classic mode takes the form of a dictionary of madness" masquerading as a review of the ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

It's Our Information: Electronic Frontier Foundation

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StopWatching.us is a coalition of more than 100 public advocacy organizations and companies from across the political spectrum who are oppo...