Mark Woods points to an article by Deron Bauman on minimalism in literature (the link doesn’t work, however), who quotes this list: Don DeLillo, Thomas Bernhard, Guy Davenport, Cormac McCarthy, William Faulkner, Gabrial Garcia Marquez, Saul Bellow, J.D.Salinger, before concluding: “writers of craft, intelligence, and wit [who] exhibit efficiencies of language, that, although not purely […]
Via AlterNet, this article by Greg Palast, Tragedy in New York: French Fried Friedman: And how DARE Friedman say that France doesn’t care about the War on Terror. France declared war on Osama and his madmen years before September 11 got Bush to change from the view of his advisor, Robert Oakley, that we shouldn’t […]
Indymedia is being infiltrated by grey propaganda, and it’s a very weird story. See, The Model, her Shadow, the Payload, and the IMC: A grey propaganda operation on the Indymedia network. The article is about Gabrielle Reilly, who could be Ann Coulter‘s “Charlie’s Angel” cousin. Indymedia reports that “over 97% of all links to [Gabrielle […]
If you could have one question answered, what would it be? In my case it would depend entirely on my sinuses. If I could have an answer to anything today, I would like to know what the point of sinuses really is. There are theories, certainly — I especially like the theory that it lightens […]
J.R. at Noded points to Mark Fiore‘s very educational site, definitely worth an extended visit. I especially liked Fiore’s 2-year commemorative lesson and his illustrated plan for our new parks services. The neo-Liberals (really very neo-con) here in British Columbia have the same thing in mind as their cousins in the U.S.
How very strange. Dave Winer reports that his uncle Ken Kieser just died in Jamaica — a man who appears to have been something of a genius, not least in terms of being a Lebenskuenstler (a person who figures out how to live vividly and artfully, with inspiration). In an aside in his tribute, Dave […]
Alexandra Stein on Totalism in the 21st century, a response to Todd Gitlin and George Monbiot’s earlier conversation in Open Democracy: [Totalism] is a critical issue facing the global progressive movement, and it’s one we drag into the 21st century from the 20th, the bones of millions clanking along as proof of its dangers. Totalism, […]
In 8th grade I was 12 and classmate to a girl I can only describe as a mean ditchrat. I didn’t start out disliking her, it just grew on me in the wake of one of her rhetorical but highly consequential questions. She was very hard, which I wasn’t on principle averse to, having been […]
It’s a trend, thank heavens. See this AlterNet article by David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation, on the subject of his new book, The lies of George W. Bush; Mastering the Politics of Deception. Included are nifty links to Corn’s site,and a list of the top ten lies; as well as to MoveOn.org‘s own […]
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