August 2010
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July 2010
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It's A Shame! A Shame! →
The House has (unbelievably) rejected a bill providing $7.4 billion in medical treatment and compensation to first responders sickened in the 9/11 attacks, with Republicans calling it a “slush fund” and “entitlement program” for deadbeats. The indecency of it all prompted a furious Rep. Anthony Weiner to lose it on the floor, entirely justifiably.
Mayor Bloomberg...
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“I like how honest it is that sometimes Barry gets so incapacitated that he has...”
– Meaghan O’Connell: Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
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The Deception of Real-Life 'Inception' →
Many old sci-fi stories, like politics and advertising of the past, subscribed to the “Clockwork Orange” theory that says blatantly propagandistic repetition is the best way to pound concepts into the human brain. But as “Inception’s” main character, Cobb, posits, the “most resilient parasite” of all is an idea that individuals are subtly led to think...
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Wetlands Front Group Funded By Big Oil Wants To... →
A group of oil companies including BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, Citgo, Chevron and other polluters are using a front group called “America’s WETLAND Foundation” and a Louisiana women’s group called Women of the Storm to spread the message that U.S. taxpayers should pay for the damage caused by BP to Gulf Coast wetlands, and that the reckless offshore oil industry should...
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“After watching True Stories, it’s impossible to tell whether Byrne is saying...”
– Elizabeth Wilcox’s extraordinary review of True Stories (1986) via the extraordinary Tragos
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Watchaskjerves:
RARE: Behind the Scenes by Joel Sartore
How does Joel Sartore make those incredibly cute portraits of endangered species that you’ve seen all over the place? Ain’t easy. (Sartore yesterday, Steinmetz today. For all the haut monde nonsense, NG keeps this forum honest.)
You stay away from Tumblr way too long, Ben, but your gems are worth waiting for. previously
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WatchYou should take the next 50sec and spend it with this creature. (+)
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It's the Opportunity, Stupid! →
A small minority of Senators robbed America of a cleaner, more prosperous future last week. In the middle of the biggest oil disaster in American history, the hottest summer on record, and a war with an oil-rich nation, this group of cynics blocked efforts to pass comprehensive energy and climate legislation. So therefore, the Senate is left to vote on an anemic energy bill of such...
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“The United States appears to be nothing more than a pitiless and punitive giant,...”
– Imperial Overkill and the Death of US Empire
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New Yorker: Wikileaks and the War
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Among the ninety-one thousand or so documents from the Afghan war released by WikiLeaks Sunday is an incident report dated November 22, 2009, submitted by a unit called Task Force Pegasus. It describes how a convoy was stopped on a road in southern Afghanistan at an illegal checkpoint manned by what appeared to be a hundred insurgents, “middle-age males with approx 75 x AK-47’s...
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Bill Evans / When I Fall in Love (Portrait in...