Monday, February 17, 2014

Whistle blowing, Big Data and the Left

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Slavoj Zizek on Snowden, Julian Assange, the N. S.A., cloud computing, the Leftist imagination and whistle blowing link here from The Guardi...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

'Thistle and the Drone': US Dials Down Dronefare to Explore Peace Talks with Taliban

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In Akbar Ahmed's 2013 volume The Thistle and the Drone, the American University scholar explores the deep cultural divides that exist be...
Monday, February 3, 2014

A Super Bowl Query: What's More American than America? Duh.

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Alexandra Petri in the Washington Post has the last word on the Super Bowl and --more importantly-- the Super Bowl commercials. Roll over, S...
Friday, January 31, 2014

The "Dalton" Gang vs. C.S.A.

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DITHOB has discussed the  troubling, visionary statement of what might have been had the Confederate States of America succeded and defeated...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

Grimm and Grimmer: "Explosio, Ergo Sum"

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DC police investigating possible charges against Rep. Grimm for threatening bodily harm on federal property  http://www.silive.com/news/inde...

Thinking About the Reunion Up There

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In memory of my dad and Uncle Joe. "Fugue for Tinhorns" aka "Horse Right Here" from Guys and Dolls 1955. Up there: Sist...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Unrest in the Ukraine

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Eastern Orthodox clergy separate anti-government protestors from government forces in Kiev in Ukraine. AP's Sergei Grit's remarkable...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Beware of the "Devil Baby" on the Streets of New York

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A promo for a forthcoming film called "Devil's Due" opening on January 17 featured a twisted and hilarious stunt by design a...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

Getting to Know You: Mayor deBlasio Takes the Stage

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I cannot speak for the pizza-with-fork thing, but Mayor deBlasio's humor, demonstrated at press conferences and  announcements, has prov...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Bridge Over Troubled Water: Maddow's Alternate Theory of the Christie Bridgegate

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Rachel Maddow brilliantly posits an extremely convincing alternate theory of why a NY Gov. Christie staffer caused traffic chaos in Fort Lee...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Poet and Revelator: John Berryman (1914-1972)

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Reading a review of " A Trip to Echo Spring " by Olivia Laing, on writers and drinking, she mentioned John Berryman. This also res...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

A Brand New Day in NYC

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The First Family taking the #4 train to the Inauguration. Photo by Rebecca Katz "But Fiorello La Guardia — the man I consider to be the...
Monday, December 30, 2013

The Shadows Take Form: Afrofuturism at the Studio Museum of Harlem

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Mark Dery wrote about Afrofuturism in his seminal essay Black to the Future which included interviews with Greg Tate and Samuel Delaney.  Af...
Wednesday, December 25, 2013

The Bear and the New Years Tree

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Gary Shteyngart in that central Christmas Day literary spot on the NY Times op Ed page writing on the "most unknowable time of the year...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Amnesty for Jailed Billionaire, Two Musicians of Pussy Riot ; Greenpeace Activists Next

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Maria Alyokhina and Nadia Tolokonnikova were released under an amnesty allowing early release from a two-year sentence after a protest again...