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NYT: “World Ends: Women & Minorities Hit Hardest”
For about the 800,00th time, the NYT platforms yet another variation of this old Mort Sahl joke. Art imitates life.
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Happy Easter from the NYT!
12+ hours later from my previous post on lead NYT stories and it’s still pretty much the same thing. While Google completely ignores Easter (the equivalent of flipping its middle finger to white Christians), here are the lead evening stories … Continue reading
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Foolish Grad School Decisions
So, maybe getting that PhD in African art history was not such a smart thing after all… for a [1](white) girl. It might’ve worked in 2008, but not in virtue-spiraling 2018: The Brooklyn Museum has sparked outrage in the black … Continue reading
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Germany’s New “Brand” of Anti-Semitism
The WSJ piece Drudge linked to has got some howlers (“Germany Struggles With an Unfamiliar Form of Anti-Semitism”). The first paragraph actually begins (no, this isn’t parody): BERLIN— Solomon Michalski loved going to his new school on a leafy Berlin … Continue reading
XTC – Easter Theatre (1999)
It’s my annual Easter ritual to repost this most gorgeous of songs. As an XTC fanatic, it is, in my humble opinion, the absolute high point of Andy Partridge’s stellar songwriting career (a ‘fact’ I once had the pleasure of … Continue reading
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NYC: When the Parasites Become the Majority
In “Everything You Love Will Be Eaten Alive”, Nathan Robinson discusses Jeremiah Ross’ book Vanishing New York: How A Great City Lost Its Soul: Essentially, New York City used to be a gruff, teeming haven for weirdos and ethnic minorities. … Continue reading
Aldous Huxley on Techno-Dictators
Lefties never imagined that the techno-dictators might be an SJW form of dictatorship.
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Ezra Pound’s Bughouse
In The Nation, Evan Kindley reviews Daniel Swift’s new book The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound (“The Insanity Defense: Coming to terms with Ezra Pound’s politics”). A couple of passages stood out to me. First, there … Continue reading
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