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Monthly Archives: May 2016
Austria: Hofert Narrowly Defeated
A very slim majority of Austrian voters chose to exacerbate their own dispossession (or not, if they aren’t indigenous Austrians). Austrian Green Party candidate Alexander Van der Bellen has narrowly defeated ‘far right’ candidate Norbert Hofert of the very new … Continue reading
The Nines – Better (2001)
I’ve got about 7 more songs by The Nines that I’ll be posting. Here is a wonderful rocker:
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Gopnik’s Trump Trauma
In The New Yorker, the current Most Popular piece is Adam Gopnik’s “The Dangerous Acceptance of Donald Trump”. Gopnik opens and closes his piece, I kid you not, with verse from Alexander Pope. (Can you say Cautionary Tale?) “Columnists and … Continue reading
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Diversity & Societal Distrust
Amidst their vast forest of stories about Hamilton, Trump, and transgendered bathrooms, the NYT has an op-ed by two sociologists titled “Don’t Blame Diversity for Distrust”. The authors, Maria Abascal & Delia Baldassarri, take issue with conventional interpretations of the … Continue reading
Self Driving Cars Will Increase Traffic, Not Reduce Traffic
FBN has a piece on the possibility of self-driving big rigs. That got me thinking. Such rigs will, in all likelihood, or perhaps at some point, not have a human in the vehicle (such rigs, after all, are intended to … Continue reading
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The Nines – Sister Louisiana (2011)
More from the great Steve Eggers. His stuff is Paul McCartney 2.0.
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What’s in a Name?
From Mediaite: A new poll from The Washington Post finds that a whopping 90 percent of Native Americans have no objection to the Washington Redskins football team’s nickname, while only 9 percent find the name offensive. Meanwhile, 90% of white SJWs are likely offended by the … Continue reading
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The Nines – Lena (2006)
More brilliant songwriting from Steve Eggers, the best & most criminally unknown songwriter of the past 30 years:
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George Hawley: Right Wing Critics of Conservatism
I look forward to soon reading Prof. George Hawley’s new book, Right Wing Critics of Conservatism, the thesis of which is crucial today. From the book’s description on Amazon: The American conservative movement as we know it faces an existential … Continue reading
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The Novel as a Tool for Survival
Arthur Krystal’s essay “The Novel as a Tool for Survival” is one of the finest pieces of writing I’ve ever come across on the existential power of literature. Krystal limns meat onto the most ineffable dynamics of literature. (I’m also currently … Continue reading
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