One of Canada’s real conservatives is screaming mad about the just-announced merger between the so-called Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance (…for frontal lobotomy & intolerance in the name of rah-rah capitalism & generalized homophobia….). David Orchard, who still clings to an increasingly archaic meaning of the word conserve – ative, is worried, and I […]
She takes on Leo Strauss, one of the brilliant Ernst Cassirer‘s most famous students. See this Adbusters article, which presents a graphical map of Strauss’s current influence. Then don’t miss Danny Postel’s interview with Shadia Drury (the very excellent b. of C.) in the current Open Democracy: On this perverse view of the world, if […]
I’ve been mentally AWOL and haven’t posted, instead getting myself all bent out of shape over a few of things that made me think about other things that … & so on, loop-de-loop. Today I’m spending the day in bed because I woke up very badly this morning. It feels as though my blood pressure […]
Please read Two Civilized Men Among the Barbarians by Glen Ford and Peter Gamble as soon as possible. It’s in AlterNet and originally appeared in The Black Commentator. It’s brilliant. The authors argue that Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton are the only two Democratic presidential candidates willing to talk like civilized people. Two excerpts: Rev. […]
Chris Locke recently posted a report about his participation at BloggerCon: I was concurrently delivering a short, succinct lecture about how the indigenous peoples of Mexico welcomed the Spanish Conquistadors, and saying this was a pretty fair metaphor, I thought, for how the entire thrust of BloggerCon — which was celebrating its own success in […]
Susan Sontag was honoured today in Frankfurt’s Paulskirche with the Peace Prize, established in 1950 by the Boersenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (association of German book trade). The Boersenverein‘s lineage dates back to booksellers’ trade fairs set up in Leipzig in 1792; it was formally established in 1825. Since 1950, the prize — valued at EURO […]
It appears that Santa and all his kin drowned when his abode fell into the sea: the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, the largest ice shelf in the Arctic, broke up in September and its finger-shaped North Pole section simply disappeared. No doubt many fundamentalists rejoice at this news since Santa was just a heathen hold-over […]
I finished Sputnik Sweetheart a few days ago, and should really read some of Haruki Murakami’s other novels (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, eg.). Anyone else read Sputnik? It’s beautifully written, a compelling story with an odd, inconclusive ending, a kind of portrait of the artist as a young woman. She goes missing because she learned […]
If you commented here recently and I haven’t replied, I plan to get to it today — one or two new friends to read, say something back, and so on. Just a little later in the day, though. Right now I’ve cotton balls for brains.
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