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Claude Monet found inspiration in haystacks and water lilies, Pablo Picasso in African masks and Edvard Munch in a poem he himself had written.
Ron Barron found inspiration on the sidewalk next to a fire hydrant on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, 10 steps from the delicatessen where he had just had lunch.
The inspiration he found on Ludlow Street was a dirty plastic bag. It was his first discovery on a two-hour scavenging expedition.
Mr. Barron, 78, creates art out of trash that he plucks from the streets of New York City. He mails his finds home to Ohio, where he places them on a scanner in his studio and makes what are essentially large-scale prints.
Mr. Barron — a former television camera operator, a former high school teacher and a former personal manager and producer for the singer Maureen McGovern — collected dozens of discarded items as he circled four blocks on the Lower East Side last week: a syringe, a couple of pennies, a label that said "compatible with touch screen operation" and a strip of caution tape. From the gutter behind a BMW came a purse with the label still dangling from the strap, and from the curb beside a Nissan Altima, an orange peel.
"Sometimes you walk along and find the story of someone's life, sitting right in front of you," he said, beginning a story about a trove of papers he once found on the Upper East Side. Mr. Barron said there was even a receipt for lifts for a man's shoes.
But his focus is art, not urban archaeology. And he sees some irony in his creations.
"I hate people throwing trash down" on the street, he said. "I think it's unconscionable. And yet when it's on the scanner, it's beautiful, so my work sends mixed signals. It's beautiful to look at, but it's ugly. It shouldn't have been thrown down like that."
Mr. Barron — who is not related to this writer — does not go looking for detritus back home in Ohio. The trash there is just not as interesting as the trash in New York, he said. But he has gone trash-hunting throughout Manhattan, including on Fifth Avenue across from Trump Tower.
There he saw a receipt he wanted, but there was a problem: A woman was standing on it. He asked if she would lift her foot. "She looked at me like I was vermin," Mr. Barron said. "She stepped aside. It was a cringe in motion."
He does not touch his finds with bare hands. On one hand, he wears a rubber glove, the kind doctors wear when examining patients, or bank tellers wear when counting cash.
In the other hand, he carries a plastic zipper bag, the storage receptacle for whatever he picks up. He favors one-gallon bags, which take longer to fill than sandwich bags, but still they fill up. When one can hold no more, he zips it shut and stows it away. He takes off the rubber glove and finds a trash can.
He does not put on the next rubber glove and open the next bag until he sees the next item he wants, and he is selective. He does not bag everything he sees in the gutters and tree pits he passes. On Ludlow Street, he picked up a piece of rubber, only to put it back on the pavement. "It doesn't have any interesting color or shape," he explained, "so I'm going to call it a reject."
He had strolled through the area before lunch, casing the sidewalks, and a wish list formed in his mind. "In the next block is a hypodermic needle I want," he announced. The only question was whether it would still be there by the time he returned, bag in hand.
Mr. Barron is not the only garbage artist mining the city for visually appealing trash. Mierle Laderman Ukeles has been the city Sanitation Department's artist in residence for more than 35 years. (Her acclaimed retrospective continues at the Queens Museum through mid-February.)
And he is not to be confused with Ron Baron, an artist with a studio in the Brooklyn Navy Terminal who said that some of his works include found objects. In 2013, he made sculptures for the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport from items he collected during a trip to Alaska — suitcases, boots and snowshoes, to name only a few.
"I like his work a lot," the Mr. Barron with two R's said, "but most of it is sculpture and assemblage. That's a whole different thing."
Mr. Barron's trash-to-treasure works have been displayed in gallery shows in Manhattan and Brooklyn, among other places. A show in Ohio was called "TrashScans," which sounds a lot like "trash cans." This is probably the place to note that Mr. Barron makes a point of not taking anything from trash cans or street-corner litter baskets.
The Sanitation Department says that what he does is legal. "Somebody picking up litter would be different from somebody collecting big heavy metal objects left out for collection," Belinda Mager, a department spokeswoman, said. "Once a resident puts material out for pickup, it's the department's material. But that's material for collection. That's different from somebody picking up a piece of litter."
Mr. Barron's art was sidelined when he was young. He attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he studied painting.
"But I never became a painter because I had elected to get married," he said, recounting the story of a girl he met when he had a summer job as a soda jerk. He was 18 and she 15. He asked her out but said the date had to be during the day, because he had to be behind the counter, pulling the handles, at night. They agreed on a tennis date.
"She beat me, three sets in a row," he said. "I said, 'This is the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with.'" They have been married for 57 years. They moved to Manhattan in the 1980s. He now spends three months a year in Greenport, on the North Fork of Long Island, and stays with his daughter in Manhattan when he visits from Ohio.
The idea of turning trash into art occurred to him in 2005, when he noticed a wrapper from a package of after-dinner mints along Restaurant Row, the block of West 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. "I said, 'There's something about the trash,'" he recalled. "The trash speaks of the throwaway culture, of the irresponsibility that anyone who cares about the environment would throw it down."
In 2009, he moved back to Ohio, where he could set up a larger studio than in Manhattan, and found a booster in Louis Zona, the executive director and chief curator of the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown. Dr. Zona said Marcel Duchamp would have "invited Ron to be a Dada artist because they have a similar sensibility."
"Duchamp was all about chance and taking objects we don't think of as works of art, and in a different context they become art," he said. "Ron certainly doesn't know what's going to be on the ground in front of Lincoln Center if he goes there tomorrow, but he's going to take a chance that it's going to be interesting enough to create a work of art out of it."
Back on the Lower East Side, the hypodermic needle was still on the sidewalk where Mr. Barron had seen it earlier. He bagged it and went on, happily looking for his next find.


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Superfood "Sweet-Za"
Chocolate-y, Fruity Paradise. For Real.
I'm not a fan of sweets in general. You won't see a ton of sweet dishes here on the blog because put simply, I just don't cook them very often. One of the only other desserts here, however, also includes Golden Sun brand "Berrytillas" because they are a kind of sweet I can get excited about.
As you can see, they are made with whole wheat flour, rolled oats, natural fruit juice, are very low in sugar and are vegan certified. What you can't see is how they smell. I said this in my "Cannoli Bites A La Mexicana" recipe, but I'll say it again. They smell like I imagine Strawberry Shortcake's house smells. It's this amazing fresh sweetness that I can't get enough of. And just wait until you heat one up...the smell is magnified by like a thousand. So yummy.
I wanted to honor the natural sweetness in these wraps without ruining their nutritional value so I came up with this delicious Superfood "Sweet-Za"...or sweet pizza. It's pretty fast and easy and requires no fancy ingredients, just a little time to blend the cashews into submission. We'll start there.
Do I have your attention yet? LOL!
For the Chocolate Cashew Spread:
1 cup raw cashews (I buy the bits and pieces as they are usually a little cheaper).
1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk
1 tbsp coconut oil
2 prunes (to sweeten. you could use dates, a couple tbsp of agave or real maple syrup)
1 tsp Molina vanilla
2 tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 of an avocado
1 tbsp raw honey
1/4 tsp salt (I always stick with pink Himalayan.)
It's a very simple process, but it does take about 10 minutes to get those cashews fully obliterated. ;)
1. Add the cashews, coconut oil, almond milk and vanilla to your blender or food processor. I am using a vitamix which probably works much faster than some other blenders so your time may vary. If you have a food processor, I'd say use that. I don't think a blender is *ideal* for this job.
2. Alternate blending and scraping the sides of the bowl down until the cashews have submitted to being a creamy spread.
3. Add the cocoa, prunes (or dates or other sweetener), honey, salt and avo and blend again until fully combined and creamy.
Yes, I'm using the same picture twice. I thought you might need some motivation to try this recipe. ;)
Next up, you're going to grab a Berrytilla, and spread a little coconut oil on it for griddling. Place it face down on your hot surface and spread a little more on the other side.
Heat on both sides on a skillet until golden and crisp. Like this:
So before you say it, let me say "you're welcome" because I know your house smells uh-mazing right now. And I realize this is going to be hard to do, but let these cool before you proceed, unless you want a gooey mess, in which case proceed and don't let me stop you. If you choose to heed my advice, chop up your desired fruit toppings at this point. I went with a classic combo of strawberries and bananas.
I purchased "Good Farms" strawberries because their commitment to being certified by Equitable Food and thereby cultivating positive change for Farm Laborers really, really matters to me.
Once they've cooled (unless you skipped that step LOL!), spread a liberal layer of your cashew superfood spread over the top...
And top with the fruit and a sprinkle of another superfood: chia seeds!
Feel free to enjoy this dish completely to yourself, or cut it up to share. <3
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
The most precious thing there is!
OK, I'll give you a clue - without it you will be dead.
I once read a book about Bhuddism. There was one thing in it I particularly liked.
This is just my take on it, not the literal translation.
There are four Graces.
First, having a human body.
Second, wanting to know why you have one.
Third, finding out why you have one.
Fourth, doing it.
And NO, it's not sex!
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I still have my thinking cap on (if it's not sex... wtf is it???)ReplyDelete
eh...? drinking?ReplyDelete
(or but not so much fun) eating, breathing, sleeping?
Think I'd be pretty much dead without those.
I can't live without tea, but that's probably just me.
Blogging of course.ReplyDelete
Except for Vicus.
BABIES! GRANDBABIES!ReplyDelete
am i right? huh? huh?
Where you been?
(my word verification was
The answer is 'breathing', although technically it's not just breathing, because you can go on a life support machine that breathes you, but you can still be dead. So it's actually the power that makes you breathe.ReplyDelete
You know those people that believe life and creation is/will soon be explainable by science - well so far, they haven't explained where/how life was created. When I was a kid I used to think about where this all came from? No one ever seemed to get back to the very beginning - 'oh, the universe came from this or that', but where did 'this or that' come from.
Now I am older I don't bother thinking quite so much about my life.
And there I was going to go along with the "tea" idea as well.ReplyDelete
I mean all this talk of breathing, that's just hot air basically.
- Anonymous31/7/08 10:02
the power that makes you breathe, eh? The Spark in the Dark. That's what I'm meant to be finding out about. Instead here I am cross-eyed from reading endless books on the India-Pakistan partition. Although, I think you can learn a lot about life in histories about death.ReplyDelete
Breathing is how you get ZENtered. You need to be aware of the magical qualities of Oxygen.ReplyDelete
I always like to remind my self that our lungs are inverted Gills..since we came from the Sea some entrepeneurial Fish inadvertently discovered how to leave their three dimensional world replete with constant temperature and eventually turned their gills inside-out to recreate a moist environment that allows the transfer of O2. Marvellous!
If anyone doesn't think that is a miracle then I feel sorry for them.


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Feeling like Buster Douglas up against Mike Tyson.
Not looking for a championship, just fairness.
Music is how I pump up and get ready for everything.
Today, I choose Eminem, "Lose Yourself."
What is your rally song?
i haven't heard that song since i saw the movie! i forgot i liked it. :)) senile, you know.
i reckon you're already gone .. good luck anyhow. i have a good feelin about this-- email me as SOON as you get home! ok, as soon as you see this and know i wanna know. k?
good times are on the way !!! EIGHT and a wake up!!!
woo hoo!!
oh-- oops--
my song is -- kanye west stronger
i loveit
Congrats on your success!!
Nimrod's a putz for sending his childish email to you. He can't shade your sunshine. Still can't believe you married a guy named Nimrod. Surely lives up to his name.
@Soul - Days are a counting down to fun in the sun. Ready to purge?
@Anonymous - thank you. Leopards never change their spots.
purge eh?--- i think so-- as long as that means get rid of stuff. i have already informed mr soulman, that we were puttin him to work-- loadin and haulin stuff. lol-- that WAS the excuse he had in the need to have his big ole bubba truck anyways. :))
i also told him we were gonna take off for a day to have some fun before killin ourselves workin..hahahahaha. no problemo.
told ya so.


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Feminism probably owes much to the efforts of genius and Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr whose brilliance pioneered the frequency technology that we use today in modern wi-fi and Bluetooth devices. Who knew, right?
Brought back to the public's attention by Israeli actress Gal Gadot, aka Wonder Woman, Gadot will both play the part of Hedy Lamarr and be executive producer of a Showtime series on the Hollywood and scientific legend.
With the series merely touted over the past year, it has now been confirmed, although without revealing an official name for the series and when it will premiere.
Austrian-born Hedy Lamarr left her husband in 1930s Europe and came to the United States as a Jewish refugee, soon scaling the heights of Hollywood as a much sought after actress.
What is much less known however, is that during the years of World War Two, Lamarr also worked as an inventor, according to a Vanity Fair article, partnering with composer George Antheil on a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes during World War II and pioneering frequency technology that still features into modern wi-fi and Bluetooth devices.
According to the article, the series will examine "the rise and fall of feminism in the American landscape during Golden Age of Hollywood and World War II, aiming to find, in Lamarr's life and legacy, clues for who we are now."
"The life of Hedy Lamarr was a truly fascinating one," said Showtime entertainment president Jana Winograde of the announcement, according to Vanity Fair. "She stood at the forefront of many issues that challenge women and our society today. In Gal Gadot, we have found the transcendent actress to portray the deeply complex Lamarr."
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Monday, 4 June 2012
Compare And Contrast.
4 comments:
What crime would I be committing were I to pretend to be An Important Olympic Person and drive along their reserved highways?ReplyDeleteReplies
Do that, plus a Union Jack emblem on your number plate it'll be life. http://bit.ly/bXInIdDelete
- BulloPill6 June 2012 at 20:01
I do take some heart in the way folks arranged their own celebrations, up and down the country. Just goes to show that we can manage without the lying, cheating scum that have got themselves into positions of authority by reason of our own carelessness. We need the nanny state not at all. We need politicos not at all. We need euro-bureaucracy in all it's forms not at all. All we British people need is the Government off our backs. Achieving that will be ugly at first, as a tolerant and patient people rise and say "not in my name!" When enough of us do that, things will have to change.ReplyDelete
Hi, Bullo, nice comment.ReplyDelete


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and put on a surgical mask to ward off germs in crowded, public places. After all, according to public wisdom, that
totally works, right? Well, it's not that simple. That fetching paper mask might not have actually
prevented you from catching the flu — but if nothing else, if you were sick, it probably
stopped you from infecting everyone else. At first glance, those masks might seem really
effective — even according to some research. In one 2009 study, almost 450 nurses in Ontario,
Canada, were assigned to wear either a simple surgical mask or an N95 respirator. These are specially designed masks that mold
closely to the face and block at least 95% of tiny particles. That study, published in JAMA, found that
about 23% of nurses ended up catching the flu regardless of the form of protection they
used. So case closed, right? Masks must work at least as well as those
fancy respirators at keeping people flu-free. Except… that's probably not the case. See, there's a difference between getting
sick and being exposed to flu virus. And other studies have shown that surgical
masks are definitely worse at keeping out viruses. One of those studies, published in American
Journal of Infection Control in 2006, used samples of a harmless virus to test how good
respirators and surgical masks are at protecting their wearers from airborne pathogens. They found that 20 to 85% of the simulated
pathogens penetrated the surgical masks, compared to only around 5% for the respirators. Which is quite the difference. So even if both groups of nurses in that first
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Posts Tagged 'inequality'
Tuesday Links!
* CFP: Fourth Wave Feminism in Science Fiction & Fantasy.
* CFP: Sexual Violence, Social Movements, and Social Media.
* Tonight! I'm talking at this event about Black Panther, oppression, and liberation for the MU Amnesty International chapter.
* The Revealer has an excerpt from Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia.
* Kim Stanley Robinson Makes the Socialist Case for Space Exploration.
* Revisiting my nerd-fiction collection, I realize how much I needed pure lore when I was a kid, and how little I need it as an adult.
Re-reading Infinity Gauntlet and honestly it looks like Thanos was just trying to help. pic.twitter.com/PCBlHZsNv9
— Hucky Barnes: The Twintter Soldier (@TylerHuckabee) April 24, 2018
* How neoliberalism shapes the global economy and limits the power of democracies.
* The Professor Who's Warning the World About Facebook and Google.
* How Dual Enrollment Contributes to Inequality.
* Reading on the Chaos in the UW system.
* "Wisconsin Won't Remove Names of KKK Affiliates From Buildings. It Will Build an Exhibit Instead." Could do both, you know!
* Which Animal Kills the Most Humans?
* Woman condemned to live in hell forever.
* "James Cameron Compares His Avatar Sequels to The Godfather, But Admits That Could Be a Huge Mistake." Oh, you think that could be a mistake, do you?
* The myth of an ending: why even removing Trump from office won't save American democracy.
* The good news for Trump is that this is the last bit of embarrassing tape footage out there [pauses, touches finger to ear] I'm being told the pee tape is real.
* Woman fined $500 for taking her in-flight apple off the plane.
* Shock report: Man whose only qualification was physical proximity to Trump may not be qualified to run the VA.
* Unbelievable desecration on the Cinderella Blu-ray. Who signed off on this?
The Blu-ray of CINDERELLA (right) has been so scrubbed of grain that they've actually destroyed the linework in some scenes pic.twitter.com/TlqiVk5eY6
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* Walking Dead and Fringe Director Seith Mann Will Bring BLACK to the Big Screen.
* The Science of Making CS Gas "Safe."
* She created a document to warn women of sexual harassers. It's haunted her ever since.
* This App Can Tell You the Indigenous History of the Land You Live On.
* Your Next Job Interview Could Be with a Racist Bot.
* Here come the climate gentrifiers.
* It's OK to Say if You Went Back in Time and Killed Baby Hitler.
This is like a painting from the Renaissance. pic.twitter.com/nhmxYxD0vC
— Frank Pallotta (@frankpallotta) April 22, 2018
* Husband-wife Gaffigan comedy team will be Marquette's spring commencement speakers.
* I say teach the controversy.
Southern Illinois University is recruiting PhD grads for VOLUNTEER faculty positions. Duties include teaching undergrad and grad classes, committee service, and thesis supervision. https://t.co/i1y84exQFc
— Melissa Hubbard (@melissa_hubbard) April 23, 2018
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Monday Morning Links!
* On Saturday night the SFRA announced its award winners. Congrats to all! And here's a Storify of the weekend's #SFRA2017 tweets.
* Civilizations in Crisis: Chinese Speculative Fiction. And at the New Yorker Radio Hour: The Cultural Revolution and the Alien Invasion.
* The Jobless Utopia of La Zarzuela.
* 'Seat 14C' short stories imagine a 20-year time warp – and now you can hop on board.
* As one of the four finalists for the Edward Said Chair, I returned from the campus interview to experience a prolonged waiting period. When the news was finally delivered, I did not learn whether I had gotten the position or not. Rather, the email informed me that the position had been cancelled altogether, due to unforeseen administrative issues.
* Constructing the cyber-troll: Psychopathy, sadism, and empathy.
* President Trump appears to have sourced his CNN wrestling tweet from a racist troll on Reddit.
* Let us instead critique liberal multiculturalism and liberal feminism, while advancing a socialist-feminist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist vision. And let us try to leave behind the sectarian divisions that have hampered us and seize the opportunity to build a new left.
During the election, CNN hired hacks just to shout on screen. You turn politics into pro wrestling, and a pro will wrestle it away from you.
— Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep) July 2, 2017
This is truly the worst case scenario of teaching an old person how to use the Internet
— Aparna Nancherla (@aparnapkin) July 2, 2017
not sure how anyone thinks a president with content this fire could fail to be reelected
— traxus4420 (@traxus4420) July 2, 2017
* Proponents insist that the emails, as deranged as they might seem, work. Critics argue that the tactic has a short shelf life and is deceptive. But Their Emails.
* D.C. police are investigating whether patrol officers struck an 11-year-old bicyclist with their cruiser Thursday night in Northwest Washington's Park View neighborhood and drove away without reporting the incident.
* Did Trump break the law over alleged Morning Joe National Enquirer blackmail threat? Oh honey. The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians. Trump's CNN Tweet Linked To Reddit User HanAssholeSolo.
* Democrats completely around the bend.
* How handsome is Mike Pence? We asked the experts.
* Once we dispense with the pragmatic-compromise explanation for the MSPRA, it's much easier to understand what CAP is doing. They are proposing a "bipartisan" patch on Obamacare, not because they think they can win through compromise, but because they largely agree with what Republicans want to do. They are promoting market-based healthcare instead of embracing popular support for single payer because they do not want to see single payer succeed. There's no counter-intuitive chess game going on here; liberals are telling the left exactly what they want, and we would do well to take them at their word.
* Generation Catalano rebrands again, again.
University of Melbourne Associate Professor of Sociology Dan Woodman—who, probably not coincidentally, was born in 1980—says the "Xennial" label applies to those born between 1977 and 1983. It's a unique demographic group, he argues, because Xennials spent a significant chunk of their childhoods without access to computers—and indeed, will someday be among the last people on Earth to remember a time before the internet—but experienced the internet revolution early enough to still become early adopters of new technologies. People who were actually college aged when Facebook came out, in other words.
* Another one: Generation Space.
Xennial (noun): a person who identifies this woman as Xena. pic.twitter.com/ZU89SFJdfr
— Eric Hittinger (@ElephantEating) July 2, 2017
* The forgotten cyberspace of the Neuromancer computer game.
* Iran's temperature hit 127 degrees yesterday.
* Being James Thomas Hodgkinson's widow.
* Methadone for social media addiction.
* As Cost Of Opioid Epidemic Rises, One City May Consider Not Reviving Addicts Who Repeatedly Overdose.
* How valuable is Stephen Curry?
How valuable is Stephen Curry? In 2010 Lacob bought Warriors for $450 million. Now worth $2.6 billion.
— Ann Killion (@annkillion) July 1, 2017
* Phone Sex Operators Say They Are Making Less Than Minimum Wage.
* Escaped elephant takes a stroll through Wisconsin neighborhood.
* Ancestry.com presents: Descendents of the Founding Fathers.
* disappointedspringsteen.gif. I mean really.
* McConnell's nearing a deal. Don't sugarcoat this. Trump just called for 32 million people to lose health coverage.
* A Muslim doctor in Trump country.
* New Florida law lets any resident challenge what's taught in science classes.
* 'Terrorism' misspelled on bench at Indiana war memorial.
Mass Grave Of Dozens Of Tortured Black Men Found In Deceased KKK Leaders Estate. UPDATE: This was a fake story.
* Personally, I think teaching is improv.
* Against Gorsuch. Against Gorsuch. Against Gorsuch.
* Fascinating analysis: The newspaper offered no definitive answer, but the question itself points to a broader issue that tends to be underexplored in the context of wrongful convictions: what typically happens with respect to the underlying crime—and, by implication, the cause of justice and of public safety—when the person found legally responsible for committing it later is determined not to be.
* A Brutal Intelligence: AI, Chess, and the Human Mind.
* Privilege and responsibility are the words we call on when the dream of a society organized by individual merit runs up against the hard world of systematic and intractable inequality.
* In Honoring Enslaved Laborers, Colleges Seek to Blunt the Force of Their Pro-Slavery Icons.
* Wikipedia as Text Adventure.
* The Hardest Job in the World. I'm like an X-Man with psychic attack powers. Time Management: A Guide for Busy Moms.
* Factionalism / small talk. All things carry yin and embrace yang. Look for the helpers.
* Horror is the only film genre where women appear and speak as often as men.
* And I consider this a canonical part of Zefram Cochrane's backstory.
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July 3, 2017 at 9:00 am
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Friday Morning!
* Trump White House finding a new bottom, day after day after… whoa. Turning Point? They're not even pretending. The Biggest Political Story in Decades. In a Private Dinner, Trump Demanded Loyalty. Comey Demurred. Days Before Firing, Comey Asked for More Resources for Russia Inquiry. Inside Trump's anger and impatience. Another inside story. Time to shut everything down. And then on the third day he threatened to blackmail Comey with secret White House tapes. Only the Rock can save us now.
* The primary takeaway of the last 18 months is that no one should ever use email for any reason.
* Though this chart from the New York Times seems pretty definitive that the Comey letter didn't determine the 2016 election.
DID YOU KNOW when Trump finally goes down in flames and brings half the country down with him your dad will say it was all Obama's fault
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 10, 2017
A person who still supports Trump after this week probably can't be reached. Sorry.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 11, 2017
COMEY: THE COMPLETE SAGA (chronological re-edit for TV, 2044)
COMEY, PART THREE (2057; regrettable)
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 5, 2017
* Huge relief after only 11 million people vote for a fascist.
* Trump's attacking the Census.
* Journalist arrested for trying to ask HHS Secretary Tom Price a question.
* What if populism is not the problem, but the solution?
* By refusing to negotiate with recently unionized graduate workers, Yale president Peter Salovey has announced in writing that the university will defy US labor law.
* Meanwhile, at the greatest public university in the world: Also included in the itemized spending was a dinner tab worth more than a year of tuition.
SINGER: hows everyone doin tonight
CROWD: woo
ME (from the back in a normal speaking voice): it's actually been a tough few months
— Bob Vulfov (@bobvulfov) May 9, 2017
* Locked Up for Being Poor. How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality. U.S. life expectancy varies by more than 20 years from county to county. All the money's gone, nowhere to go.
* Kristen Gillibrand, for and against. All this for someone who already ruled it out!
* Despite the confidence that the backlash to the healthcare bill will benefit Democrats, this doesn't seem like good politics to be gleefully cheering on something you think is going to literally kill people. Especially, when you're just singing over the supposed political benefits.
* History Will Remember These 217 House Republicans for Their Inhumanity.
* The Democratic Party Is a Ghost. Losing West Virginia. Priorities in Delaware. The Resistance, but not just as a joke. Stop promoting liberal conspiracy theories on Twitter.
* Trumpism is coming from the suburbs. Beyond Economics: Fears of Cultural Displacement Pushed the White Working Class to Trump.
* A study at Demos says voter suppression flipped Wisconsin. Some Words of Caution.
* I'm sure no one could find this objectionable: A top government official overseeing detentions and deportations is heading to a private prison company at the end of the month, according to a source with firsthand knowledge.
* The Little Known History of Black Women Using Soda Fountains as Contested Spaces.
* Fair Use Too Often Goes Unused.
* How a Utah county silenced Native American voters — and how Navajos are fighting back.
* The Higher-Education Crisis Is a Labor Crisis.
* How Marquette Is Becoming More Diverse.
* Everything We Know About Salt May Be Wrong.
* This is how SETI plans to find alien life by 2037.
* Chicago Approves Plan To Block Trump's Name on His Tower With Giant, Flying Pigs.
* A Defense of the Tuvel Open Letter, at the Chronicle. And on the other side.
'In the XKCDification of political protest the demand has been replaced by the in joke, the threat to power by the witty signal to peers'
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) April 22, 2017
* How many Death Row prisoners are disabled? All of them.
* The length schools will go to cover up for bullies never ceases to amaze me.
* District: The Game of Gerrymandering for the Whole Family.
* Secret military space shuttle rattles Florida.
* Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in.
* HIV life expectancy 'near normal' thanks to new drugs.
* Another neurological disease unexpectedly linked to gut bacteria.
* U.S. to Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights From Europe, Officials Say.
* Six individuals who learned that they descended from slaves sold by Georgetown University over 175 years ago reflect on family and life.
* Private schools have a plan to kill the high school transcript that will be totally fair and not offer their students an unfair advantage in any way.
* Stephen Fry is being investigated for blasphemy. Amazing.
* That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox.
* The Girls' Soccer Team That Joined a Boys' League, and Won It.
* Winners and losers of the recent nuclear holocaust.
* Write the book you needed to read when you were a child. Troubled Wisconsin man goes on 50 state killing spree. Guns and Roses tones it down. Our future in space. They fucking killed him. Top ten book rebrands, all-time. I hacked into Mike Pence's email. Maybe I should give the Yankees another look. A new favorite metaphor. But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
* And I don't care how pretty or enigmatic it is, nothing will ever make Blade Runner 2049 a good idea.
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Monday Morning
* In local news: Dangerous Levels of 'Erin Brockovich' Chemical Found in Local Drinking Water.
* Great little Wisconsin story about the hotel NFL teams stay at when they play the Packers.
* To understand Charlotte's rage, you have to understand its roads. A Homegirl Reflecting on Charlotte Uprising.
* Homeless and in graduate school.
* The survey that Williams was part of, the Milwaukee Area Renters Study (MARS), may be the first rigorous, detailed look at eviction in a major city. Interviewers like Williams spoke to about 1,100 Milwaukee-area tenants between 2009 and 2011, asking them a battery of questions on their housing history. The survey has already fundamentally changed researchers' understanding of eviction, revealing the problem to be far larger than previously understood.
* The rise and rise of tabletop gaming.
* It's genuinely disturbing how easy it is to make a 269-269 electoral map, and how plausible that outcome seems.
* Here's Everything Donald Trump Has Promised to Do on His First Day as President. Seven Days of Donald Trump's Lies. Scope of Trump's falsehoods unprecedented for a modern presidential candidate. Donald Trump's Week of Misrepresentations, Exaggerations and Half-Truths. The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally. Bruce vs. Trump. Trump's jet vs. the taxpayers. Intel Officials Investigating Trump Advisor's Ties To Putin Allies. Virtual media blackout on emerging Trump campaign scandal with Russia. Pregaming the debate. And again. And again. And again.
"Trump looked like a president tonight" will be the media's mantra tomorrow night barring anything short of a stroke on stage.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) September 26, 2016
* Obama legacy project, take one.
* From the right: "Against democracy."
* Roughly speaking, a white voter will lean left if she is "more college than church" and will lean right if she is "more church than college."
* Democrats don't actually want to win, exhibit 37,000.
* If you want a vision of the future:
The Democrats have become the party, not of some specific ideological agenda, but of the traditional system as such. One of Obama's major goals has been to rehabilitate the Republicans and force them to act as a worthy opponent rather than an implacable foe. This approach was naive and in many ways dangerous, as shown most vividly when Obama tried to "leverage" the Republicans' unprecedented brinksmanship on the debt ceiling to engineer a "grand bargain" on the deficit, but it fits with the view that the system only works if there are two worthy opponents locked in an eternal struggle with no final victories. We can see something similar in Clinton's controversial decision to treat Trump as an outlier rather than letting him tar the Republican brand as such. It works to her political disadvantage — showing that her centrist opportunism is weirdly principled in its own way — but from within her worldview, the most important thing is to restore the traditional balance of forces.
The situation we are in shows the intrinsic instability of party democracy. An eternal struggle between worthy opponents is not possible in practice. Eventually, one of the two teams is going to decide that they want to win in the strong sense, to defeat the opponent once and for all. And if that desire cannot be achieved immediately, it will inevitably lead to a long period where the old enemy is treated as a foe — as intrinsically evil and illegitimate. Within the American system, with its baroque structure of constraints and veto points, that will lead to a period where government is barely functional, because the natural tendency will be for the radicalized party to refuse to go along with the system until they have full control over it.
* This would be a better story if they were going to dive in to how creepy this would be: Geordi La Forge Has a Ship Full of Datas in This First Look at Star Trek: Waypoint.
* Tonight in Jungeland: Chris Christie's Chances For Impeachment Just Went Way Up.
* On the Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Brute Luck.
* Scientists have found a better version of the Dyson Sphere. Meet the Dyson Swarm, a vast mega-structure comprised of a plethora of solar panels.
* Police enlist young offenders as confidential informants. But the work is high-risk, largely unregulated, and sometimes fatal.
* A walking tour of New York's surveillance network.
* The Stolen War: How corruption and fraud created a failed state in Iraq—and led directly to the rise of ISIS.
* The Fallacies Of Neoliberal Protest.
* Please be true, please be true: Arrival Is a Scifi Masterpiece You Won't Stop Thinking About.
* "The Battle of Algiers" at 50: From 1960s Radicalism to the Classrooms of West Point.
* Professor Donald W. Schaffner, a food microbiologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, said a two-year study he led concluded that no matter how fast you pick up food that falls on the floor, you will pick up bacteria with it. Challenge accepted.
* Cats sailed with Vikings to conquer the world, genetic study reveals. Trade between China and Rome in the ancient world, as tokened by a pair of corpses found in a London cemetery. (On that second one others say not so fast.)
* "…Adding to the tragedy, is that this disaster went almost completely unnoticed by the public as later that day another, more "newsworthy" tragedy would befall the nation when beloved President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated. The Staten Island Ferry Disaster Museum hopes to correct this oversight by preserving the memory of those lost in this tragedy and educating the public about the truth behind the only known giant octopus-ferry attack in the tri-state area."
* Breaking Bad at a Bronx charter.
* The Three-Body Problem in, well, China.
* A Law Professor Explains Why You Should Never Talk to Police.
* A History of Native Americans Protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline.
* The book in question is The Total Rush – or, to use its superior English title, Blitzed – which reveals the astonishing and hitherto largely untold story of the Third Reich's relationship with drugs, including cocaine, heroin, morphine and, above all, methamphetamines (aka crystal meth), and of their effect not only on Hitler's final days – the Führer, by Ohler's account, was an absolute junkie with ruined veins by the time he retreated to the last of his bunkers – but on the Wehrmacht's successful invasion of France in 1940. Published in Germany last year, where it became a bestseller, it has since been translated into 18 languages, a fact that delights Ohler, but also amazes him.
* A brief history of gang violence in Chicago.
* This is what word processing machines, word processing software, and word processing as an office management strategy all have common: they are techniques for providing the essential labor required to produce texts while also concealing that labor, thereby generating the impression that the command to produce a document can itself produce documents.
* Colin Kaepernick's silent protest is a start, but what if pro athletes refused to play? Students Are Pulling a Kaepernick All Over America — and Being Threatened for It.
* And if you want a vision of the future: They're gonna be submerging this dude in water and taking photos every 5 years until he dies.
They're gonna be submerging this dude in water and taking photos every 5 years until he dies https://t.co/Ms9H5T61Te
— Eric Harvey (@ericdharvey) September 24, 2016
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Sunday Morning Links!
* One might, it's true, wonder how cultural capital has survived the last half century's apotheosis of pop, the rollback of the old patrician-bourgeois culture of the West, postmodernism's putative muddling of low and high. But the sociologists have gone and checked, and the answers are not hard to find: Fancy people are now more likely to consume culture indiscriminately, that is, to congratulate themselves on the expansiveness of their tastes; indistinction has become distinction. They are more likely to prefer foreign culture to their own, at least in some who-wants-takeout? kind of way. And they are more likely to enjoy culture analytically and ironically, belligerently positing a naïve consumer whose imagined immersion in the object will set off everything in their own approach that is suavely arms-length and slaunchwise. Such, point for point, is the ethos of the new-model English department: of cultural studies, new media, the expanded canon, of theory-courses-without-objects. To bring new types of artifacts into literature departments is not to destroy cultural capital. It is merely to allow new things to start functioning as wealth. Even here, the claim to novelty can be overstated, since it is enough to read Bourdieu to know that the claim to interpret and demystify has always been an especially heady form of symbolic power. The ingenious reading confers distinction, as do sundry bids to fix the meanings of the social. Critical theory is cultural capital. Citing Judith Butler is one of the ways in which professional people outside the academy understand and justify their own elevation. Bickering recreationally about the politics of zombie movies is just what lawyers and engineers now do.
* The Kindle edition of The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson is (still) on sale for $1.99. Here's the LARoB review!
* Meanwhile, LARoB also reviews Paradoxa 26, which has my essay on Snowpiercer in it.
* Extrapolation 56.1 is now available.
Sherryl Vint, "Skin Deep: Alienation in Under the Skin"
Isiah Lavender, "Reframing Heart of Darkness as Science Fiction"
Sharon DeGraw, "Tobias S. Buckell's Galactic Caribbean Future"
Karen May and David Upton, "'Ser Piggy': Identifying an Intertextual Relationship between William Golding's Lord of the Flies and George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones
Lee Braver, "Coin-Operated Doors and God: A Gnostic Reading of Philip K. Dick's Ubik"
* Baltimore after Freddie Gray.
* The good inequality. Policy debate in the age of neoliberalism.
* Gene Wolfe, sci-fi's difficult genius.
* The slow apocalypse and fiction.
* In the meantime, we will all have to cope with the fact that education technology has just become weaponized. Arizona State is now the first predator university. They are willing to re-define what education is so that they can get more students from anywhere. If they don't kill other universities by taking all their students with a cheap freshmen year, they'll just steal their fish food by underselling 25% of the education that those schools provide and leaving them a quarter malnourished. The result is that schools which stick to reasonable standards with respect to the frequency and possibility of teacher/student interaction now have to fear for their very existence.
* The Invented History of 'The Factory Model of Education.'
* The obvious corollary is that, in order to stem the tide of tuition increases, we should seek to stabilize or increase state funding and curb the power of administrators.
* I'm seeing it mostly mocked and dismissed, but I think the Columbia case (K.C. Johnson summary at Minding the Campus) will be important flashpoint in Title IX law. My sense is that the wind on this is really changing strongly against the feminist left; we're going to see many of the received truths of campus anti-rape policies coming under serious challenge. It's going to be difficult, and it's going to require some unpleasant reconsideration of the way we talk about this issue.
* New Simulation Shows How The Pacific Islands May Have Been Colonized.
* Incredibly, the percentage of parents throughout the state who engaged in the civil disobedience of refusing the test for their kids is higher than the 15 percent of eligible voters who cast a ballot for Andrew Cuomo in the low-turnout election last year.
* All of the juniors at Nathan Hale High School refused to show up for state testing this week.
* Against the creative economy.
* What if Man of Steel was in color?
* Gasp! The Apple Watch May Have a Human Rights Problem.
* Microsoft Word Spells the Names of Game of Thrones Characters Better Than You Can.
* Nine Months After He Filmed Eric Garner's Killing, the Cops Are Trying to Put Ramsey Orta Behind Bars.
* "We must disband the police: Body cameras aren't enough — only radical change will stop cops who kill."
* Yes please: Telltale is making some kind of Marvel game.
* The Feds Say One Schmuck Trading From His Parents' House Caused a Market Crash. Here's the Problem.
* See, Dad? I knew you could survive on girl scout cookies.
* There's always money in the banana stand: The Fed's Cold War Bunker Had $4 Billion Cash For After The Apocalypse.
* Won't you give? What you can? Today? Poetry is going extinct, government data show.
* I believe any crazy story with China in the headline. That's my policy.
* Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything.
* It's Time To Stop Treating Childhood as a Disease.
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Spring! Break! Forever! Links!
* The Department of Special Collections and University Archives will host an upcoming talk by Tolkien scholar Janet Brennan Croft March 26, at 4:30 p.m. in the Raynor Memorial Libraries Beaumier Suites. Croft is the author of "Barrel Rides and She-Elves: Audience and 'Anticipation' in Peter Jackson's Hobbit Trilogy," and has written on film adaptions of J.R.R. Tolkien's works. The talk will explore Tolkien's "Hobbit Trilogy" in regards to audience expectations, the difficulties of filming a prequel after a sequel, and issues of anticipation in relation to character development.
* The death of writing – if James Joyce were alive today he'd be working for Google.
* In Amsterdam, a revolt against the neoliberal university.
* The persistence of inequality.
* How A Traveling Consultant Helps America Hide The Homeless.
* Working-Class Women at the MLA Interview.
* Checking flights now: Kim Stanley Robinson Week at Ralahine.
* Using Science Fiction to Re-Envision Justice.
* Arab Sci-Fi: The future is here.
* 'House of Cards' is the worst show about American politics. Ever. On the perfunctoriness of House of Cards.
* Unarmed teenager shot by police in Madison. Students march.
* Meanwhile, Milwaukee's sheriff wants attention.
* The Unfortunate Fate of Sweet Briar's Professors. This headline really buries the lede:
Of course, faculty members aren't the only employees who are taking a hit. Rainville suggested that nearly a third of the college's hourly workers are descendants of the Fletcher plantation's original slave community. Some of the staff members have worked at Sweet Briar their entire adult lives.
* Detenuring and its discontents.
* Marina Warner on the disfiguring of higher education.
* What Obama's 'Student Aid Bill of Rights' Will — and Won't — Do. Student Loans Viewed Differently Than Other Debt, Study Finds.
* Fear of a Muslim Planet. From TNI #38: "Futures."
* Islamophobic Bus Ads In San Francisco Are Being Defaced With Kamala Khan.
* Finally, a technological solution to the problem of taking attendance!
* LARPing Hamlet at Castle Elsinore.
* These Photos Beautifully Capture the Complex Relationship Between Mothers and Daughters. These are really amazing. Many more links after the photo.
* The 1 percent's white privilege con: Elites hold "conversations" about race, while resegregating our schools.
* Austerity won't collapse under its own contradictions. We'll need a movement for that.
* It's a mistake to ask whether this is wealthy people defending their financial interests or wealthy people expressing their ideology, or which motivation is reallyin the driver's seat. The triumph of modern conservatism is that it has collapsed the distinction. The interests of the wealthy are the ideology. Fossil fuels are the ideology. They're bubbling in the same ethno-nationalist stew as anti-immigrant sentiment, hawkish foreign policy, hostility toward the social safety net, and fetishism of guns, suburbs, and small towns. It's all one identity now. The Kochs (and their peers) are convinced that their unfettered freedom is in the best interests of the country. There's no tension.
* What happens when Queen Elizabeth dies?
* Native language study at UWM.
* Judge Says University Failed to Shield Professor From Colleagues' Retaliation. Yeah, sure sounds like it.
* It is now twelve months to the day that I set myself the task of, for one full year, reading books only by straight, white, middle-class, Anglopone, cis male authors. During that time I read 144 books. The things I learned in my year of selective reading made me pretty glad to have persevered.
Ph.D. students will receive 4 percent more in total compensation for their work as teaching assistants, bringing the average annual compensation up to approximately $36,600. The agreement also guarantees yearly minimum wage increases of 2.25 to 2.50 percent through 2020. For graduate employees at NYU's Polytechnic School of Engineering, some of whom currently make only $10 an hour, hourly wages will increase to $15 next fall and reach $20 by 2020. Those employees will also receive a $1,500 bonus for work done over the past three semesters.
* Diving into the weeds: Is University of Oklahoma frat's racist chant protected by 1st Amendment? 5 Ways Fraternities Are Wielding Major Influence Over University Administrations. A decade of bad press hasn't hurt fraternity membership numbers. A Brief and Recent History of Bigotry at Fraternities.
* Where has all the money gone? The decline in faculty salaries at American colleges and universities over the past 40 years.
* Flexible online education can never fail, it can only be failed.
* Small Private College Shuts Down, Donates Campus to the University of Iowa.
* Mass Firings in History at Boise State.
* The U.S. is being overrun by a wave of anti-science, anti-intellectual thinking. Has the most powerful nation on Earth lost its mind?
* Florida Officials Ban The Term 'Climate Change.'
* Climate Change Is Altering Everything About The Way Water Is Provided In Salt Lake City.
* The Desertification of Mongolia. Still not done, more links below.
* Introducing the Gawker Media SecureDrop.
* Buffy is old enough to go through that weird test they make Slayers go through when they turn 18.
* White candidates with degrees from less-selective universities can expect to get a response every 9 résumés, while equally qualified black candidates need to submit 15.
* Is Scott Walker the most dangerous man in America?
* The troubled history of the foreskin.
* I'm honestly amazed the insurers were letting Harrison Ford fly small planes to begin with.
* In the U.S., a notary public does unglamorous legal drudge work. But in many Latin American countries, a notario is an ill-defined but powerful figure with broad legal authority, often someone with the connections needed to navigate bureaucracies that, while arcane, are also flexible. Unscrupulous notarios in the U.S. exploit these facts to con immigrants into believing that all it takes to finally get legal is the right person to file the paperwork.
* Emily Yoffe has another piece at Slate arguing against the current approach to sexual assault at colleges, this time framed around The Hunting Ground.
* English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet.
* Dystopia in our time: "Why Buzzfeed Is The Most Important News Organization in the World."
* The end of cable: HBO is coming to Apple TV.
* I have altered the Expanded Universe. Pray I do not alter it further. But at least progress marches on.
* Gasp! Airbnb Is Making Things Worse for LA Renters.
* Meritocracy watch: Chelsea Clinton Absolutely Open to Running for Office.
* How Reddit Became a Worse Black Hole of Violent Racism than Stormfront.
* "A simple design fluke and marketing are afoot here. When Gard accidentally increased her breast size by 150 percent, the creative team insisted it was maintained. The parent company's marketing team found this to be a boon to breaking through the noise that would buoy their success."
* Porntopia: A trip to the Adult Video News Awards.
* In 1923, Daylight Saving Time Was Actually Illegal In Some States. It's time to make daylight saving time year-round. PFT speaks.
* The salary you need to buy a home in 27 U.S. cities.
* These maps show where the world's youngest and oldest people live.
* Ottawa doctors behind breakthrough multiple sclerosis study. This sounds amazing. I hope it's true.
* Coming this October: Back in Time: The Back to the Future documentary.
* You know, like Ghostbusters, but Ph-balanced for a man.
* Scenes from the class struggle at NBC News.
* Day-in, day-out, Calvin keeps running into evidence that the world isn't built to his (and our) specifications. All humor is, in one way or another, about our resistance to that evidence. The Moral Philosophy of Calvin and Hobbes.
* Men make their own brackets, but they do not make them as they please. Marx Madness. Via MarxFi.
* And they say our culture is no longer capable of producing great things.
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Spring Break Monday Links
* Reaching My Autistic Son Through Disney. What a story. I bawled.
* Apocalyptic flooding scheduled for Wisconsin.
* Hampton, Florida, the little town so corrupt even the rest of Florida thinks it's gone too far.
* Women run just a quarter of the biggest art museums in the United States and Canada, and they earn about a third less than their male counterparts, according to a report released on Friday by the Association of Art Museum Directors, a professional organization.
* The greatest secret of American manhood is: We are afraid of other men. Masculinity as Homophobia.
* Union research document says Obamacare will hasten income inequality. When job creators create lousy jobs.
* At best, job creation is merely an inadequate palliative for years of deep recession. At worst, it's an active strategy for redirecting wealth upwards and further immiserating the working class. Quantify that.
* Not even climate change will kill off capitalism.
* Millennials in adulthood. Millennials and college degrees. The Self(ie) Generation. College Grads Taking Low-Wage Posts Displace Less Educated. Are Millennials different?
* "You stole the documents we were hiding from you which proved we were lying, so we spied on you to find out how you did that."
* Annals of Obama negotiating with himself.
* A theory of neoliberalism: Wages versus Assets.
* Democrats are really starting in with the surrender-to-hopelessness blitz EARLY this cycle. Meanwhile.
* A rare sociological analysis of Federal Reserve policy confirms what many economists already knew: top central bank officials missed the oncoming crisis because they failed to make the connection between housing, the banking industry and the economy. I don't know; my rule is never attribute to incompetence what can be adequately explained by soulless millionaires cynically cashing out.
* What happens to our financial safety net when we are already renting out our couches, giving rides after work, and running tasks on the weekends just to stay afloat?
* If you pirate a digital copy of The Triple Package, use the find and replace function. Find "successful cultural group" replace with "bourgeoisie" and then the book will become a coherent and honest provocation, rather than the triple package of neurosis, projection, and obfuscation that it really is.
* Maternal mortality rates are falling in every industrialised nation – except for the United States.
* The latest for the "every cop is a criminal" file.
* The latest for the "lolz you didn't write the laws right" file.
* Do I read this right? An off-duty cop shot somebody and the other guy got charged with assault?
* The unrelenting gaze of the police never wavers in Milwaukee.
* Detroit Scam City: How The Red Wings Took Hockeytown For All It Had.
* Idaho Governor Poised To Sign Totally Insane, Obviously Disastrous Bill Allowing Concealed Guns On College Campuses.
* de Blasio vs charters in NYC. How charter schools get students they want. In the great efforts they are expending to exclude the students that are the most difficult to educate, charter schools are lending more credence to my argument about the arrow of causation in our perception of school quality than I could ever generate.
* The real problem is that a very few, very wealthy individuals override the voices of thousands upon thousands of experienced educators and parents.
* Mother Canada? Is that a thing? Displays of Canadian nationalism always seem off to me. Letting down the side, Canada.
* South by Southwest's unpaid labor problem: Why it's risking a class action lawsuit.
* Cartoonist Chris Ware on outsider art, reading aloud and the Common Core.
* Climate change is the modern fully realized, the modern as tending towards undoing its own conditions of existence.
* I had no idea just disintegrating in midair was something that could just happen to planes. I wish I didn't know it now.
* Wages for Sea World animals: Yes, California Can Really Ban Shamu, Legal Experts Say. Can't they just argue exploiting whales and making their lives miserable is free speech? That's how it works with humans.
* I was saying this weekend (1, 2, 3) that voting for Rand Paul is not as irrational as it might seem at first glance, given the unilateral powers the executive branch has in the U.S. and his stated opposition to the war on drugs and the war on terror. What's interesting is that Rand Paul himself absolutely does not want me to hold this opinion.
* Can We Learn About Privacy From Porn Stars?
* 11 of the Weirdest Solutions to the Fermi Paradox.
* A brief history of nonsense.
* Too late! We already designed modern cities around it.
* Great walls to end tornadoes in our time? What could possibly go wrong?
* Truth and reconciliation in Guatemala.
* Towards White History Month.
In 2007, Gary Younge (he is an ally) suggested that what we all needed is a White History Month. Gary reminded us: "So much of Black History Month takes place in the passive voice. Leaders 'get assassinated,' patrons 'are refused' service, women 'are ejected' from public transport. So the objects of racism are many but the subjects few. In removing the instigators, the historians remove the agency and, in the final reckoning, the historical responsibility … There is no month when we get to talk about [James] Blake [the white busdriver challenged by Rosa Parks]; no opportunity to learn the fates of J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, who murdered Emmett Till; no time set aside to keep track of Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, whose false accusations of rape against the Scottsboro Boys sent five innocent young black men to jail. Wouldn't everyone–particularly white people–benefit from becoming better acquainted with these histories?"
* And Rebecca Onion has a 1940s Board Game for French Kids Taught Tactics for Successful Colonialism.
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Spiritual disciplines are those practices found in the Word of God that focus on the spiritual growth followers of Jesus Christ. They are habits of devotion, habits of experiential Christianity that have been practiced by God's people since biblical times.
They are done with the goal of becoming like Jesus to be with Jesus which is what we we refer to as intimacy. What they are not is another set of standards or rules that are done in order to have better performance as a follower of Jesus.
Warriors are disciplined men and women who take seriously the call of Jesus to set the captives free and they know this starts with a conversational walk with God.


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Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright and Dan Futterman, the executive producers of Hulu's "The Looming Tower," on the challenges of adapting the book, the failures of the intelligence community, and why it's still relevant today.
The executive producer of "Everybody Loves Raymond," who's eating his way around the world in his new food/travel show "Somebody Feed Phil," reveals the one thing he won't eat, why he prefers street food, and how the show is like a sitcom.
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i dont want to go home... I get that will make this article redundant ( spoilers and all ) but bare with me. I wanted to take the kids away before they went back to school, but i wanted somewhere new. Craig tara was a totally random choice, but a great one ( spoilers again... Continue Reading →
Camping time is near!!
please god let the weather stay glorious. So the car is packed ,the clothes ironed and packed. The four year olds picked his toys ( half his bedroom ) and the daughters got her books and I have my comics. This year we're going to lakeland in flookburgh ( yes that is what its called,yes... Continue Reading →
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Tomorrow I'm going to my favourite part of the country the lakes,Ullswater to be more precise. Ullswater near keswick along the a66 is beautiful,nothing but sights and views and beautiful landscapes an water. We either stay at haven in Lakeland (end of may) or Ullswater holiday park. Tomorrow is the latter. We recently got two... Continue Reading →


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I must point out that we are in no way taking this seriously; it is just a bit of fun...
To begin with we played about with arrangements and colours but these didn't quite work for us..
We are allocated a three metre run of tables, and we eventually chose a piece of bottle green fabric to cover these, the better to display our wares. Fortunately this colour co-ordinated with a gazebo which Colin wisely thought would be useful as a sun shade. Our camping chairs also match, to give a pleasing and cohesive 'house style'....
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In this paper, we explore the European and North American Basel II implementation experience from a practical perspective. We give an outline of common implementation challenges faced by the banks; we also describe lessons learned as well as best practices.
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