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Daily Archives: November 4, 2013
Beinart Leaving Daily Beast for The Atlantic (and Haaretz)
Some movement, of the quasi-incestuous sort, within MSM punditry: Peter Beinart, the liberal Jewish blogger, is leaving The Daily Beast for The Atlantic Media Company, where he will serve as contributing editor for both The Atlantic and National Journal. Beinart … Continue reading
Lautner’s Bob Hope Home For Sale
The famous Lautner-designed Bob Hope house is for sale, with an asking price of $50 million: Bob Hope owned a collection of homes in Palm Springs and the L.A. area, and two have already hit the market — both snagging … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art
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Drake Equation: UCal-Berkeley/UHawaii Study
Here’s the Drake Equation again, actualizing itself, right before our eyes, towards 1.00. Of a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: There are likely “tens of billions” of Earth-like planets in our Milky Way galaxy, … Continue reading
Posted in Science
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Hollywood Pushing Obamacare
At NRO, Andrew Johnson reports: The California Endowment has awarded a $500,000 grant to the Norman Lear Center, a public-policy organization at the University of Southern California that focuses on entertainment, to make sure that television producers and their staffs fully understand the new health-care-reform law, … Continue reading
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Culture Wars – Pt. 5,331,287
More detritus we can look forward to at 8 pm on ABC. Soon, gender-reassigned characters will be as ubiquitous in sitcom land as the funny, gay neighbors are today. There has been a major change in the relationship dynamic of … Continue reading
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PoMo Article on Black Sexuality
Sometimes, reality is more absurd than parody. “Who’s Afraid of Black Sexuality?” is a Chronicle article chock full of standard-issue, postmodernist, race/class/gender language: Marlon M. Bailey rose to give a talk at a meeting this year to celebrate Ph.D programs … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Black, Postmodernism
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