Daily Archives: June 16, 2016

The Neu Jorker

The Neu Jorker is a spot-on parody of The New Yorker. What a tremendous effort to the enterprise, too!

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RIP: Gregory Rabassa

Gregory Rabassa, whose translations of Latin American novels were ubiquitous in the 60s and onward, and whose gorgeous translation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is a transcendent literary experience, has died at the age of 94.

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Even in Denton, TX

Nothing to see here. However, let’s bring in as many more ‘refugees’ from Iraq as we can. Celebrate diversity!

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‘Honey Trap’ Boys

From AFP, some background on bacha bazi, a practice which Afghani ‘refugees’ into Western Europe and the U.S. bring with them: The Taliban are using child sex slaves to mount crippling insider attacks on police in southern Afghanistan, exploiting the … Continue reading

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20/20 – Nuclear Boy (1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TfhUGISc_M

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