Americans awakening to press calamity The conglomeration of the American press into a handful of giant media holding companies has had an invisible bacterial and viral impact on our lives and our politics. Our body politic is ill, and the doctor is to blame. • A diminished local and regional press exaggerates the federal government’s [...]
Read More...Gerard Malanga’s Ghostly Berms One of the chief glories of art is that it gives us new ways to see things. It’s always the enemy of the received idea, the complacent notion. Art reveals what is hidden in plain sight. It makes us look twice, think twice. For this reason, anamorphosis and trompe-l’oeil play important [...]
Read More...If there is a bigger turnoff than the persistent misogyny of the Abrahamic religions I haven’t stumbled on it. Without the slightest evidence, the testament of my intuition is that it’s at the heart of the American obsession with being right. Being right is to me the second biggest turnoff. It won’t even get you [...]
Read More...A way to wrest government from the political class A litmus test is available to Occupy Wall Street to determine just how responsive government is willing to be or how repressive. Occupy our town and city halls, our county offices. Not as a mob, not hit or miss, but carefully targeting issues and offices. Practice [...]
Read More...Shameless is about The Man and wolves Lycanthropy, wolves and wolfishness enjoy Olympic status on television and in films these days, but for a firsthand look at how a wolf pack operates you have to turn to a television series that never mentions wolves. Shameless is hands down the best series on television. It’s a tragicomedy about [...]
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