- The American Spectator: The Bluest State: How Democrats Created the Massachusetts Blueprint for American Political Disaster
KELLER HAS THE Massachusetts Boomer liberal nailed. AM radio sharp, he puts the picture in five words: “Aloofness. Arrogance. Entitlement. Condescension. Hypocrisy.” He draws an unsparing portrait of a single-party fiefdom that cares only about who’s a (books class politics review) - The New Cartographers — In These Times
these mapping tools are re-locating us as the center of our personal universes. We no longer go to maps to find out where we are. Instead, we tell maps where we are and they form around us on the fly, a sensation that can be comforting or stifling. (community essay google gps map social) - The Whitney Biennial — New York Magazine Art Review
These curators seem to think that painting is incapable of addressing the issues of our time or that it’s passe… it’s a shame they didn’t go all the way with that notion. A No Paintings Biennial would’ve at least made everyone hysterical. (art criticism jargon mumblecore museum nyc review) - An unsanitised history of washing - Times Online
to risk smelling like a human is a misdemeanour, and the goal is to smell like an exotic fruit or a cookie. The standard we read about in magazines and see on television is a sterilised and synthetic one. (article books british health) - Fashionomics by Jason Potts
Fashion fulfils a similar role in the consumer economy, by providing a mechanism to periodically liquidate certain elements of a consumer lifestyle, triggering the incentive to learn about new things and to demand new goods. (culture economics essay fashion) - China as the Antidote to Oppression and Exploitation? - ChronicleReview.com
likely success of the Chinese model… will mean that the US will not be able to “impose coercively upon the world its right to an extravagant way of life”.. rise of China will imply a decline in US living standards as cooperation.. replaces exploitation (asian criticism economics europe history politics review) - The atheist delusion | By genre | guardian.co.uk Books
central thread of the story is the assertion of free will against faith.. But the idea of free will that informs liberal notions of personal autonomy is biblical in origin (ie Genesis).. like most varieties of atheism.. is a derivative of Xtianity (article british church criticism religion review) - The 2008 Tournament of Books - The Morning News - What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman v. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The eponymous Oscar is, as reviews have pointed out, a terrific creation, an enormous heartsick science-fiction nerd, frustrating and heroic and true. And I spent much of the book missing him, even as I admired Diaz’s love for Oscar’s sister, mother, (books criticism literature) - Backtalk
The thing is, you wouldn’t know because, frankly, Mother Jones doesn’t go out of its way to market itself to a newer, sexier crowd. A few suggestions to help MJ reach a new audience: 1. Instead of Mother Jones, how about Mutha Fukkas? (comments funny magazine) - Molly Ivins: I will not support Hillary Clinton for President
Enough. Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation. Enough clever straddling, enough not offending anyone This is not a Dick Morris election. Sen. Clinton is apparently incapable of taking a clear stand on the war in Iraq, and that alone is enough (column opinion politics president)
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