The Paltry Sapien
Americans–Eating their Young
by Matthew Payne on June 16, 2013
Francisco de Goya ~ Saturn Devouring His Children (a Metaphor for Today’s Youth) c/o Wikimedia
One of the enduring myths of the Lesser Depression is that older and more prosperous employees have been devastated by the economic turndown by selfish and better-trained wunderkind. That slacker hipster youth are simply sponging off their parents and refusing to acquire the skills needed for today’s vicious labor market is a persistent charge. …
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On Government Secrecy and Citizenship ~ Charlie Pierce asks the Right Question
by Matthew Payne on June 14, 2013
A. Solzhenitsyn ~ like you, he thought his mail was safely boring. (c/o Wikileaks Commons)
UPDATE (6/15):
BloombergBusinessWeek has a fascinating little chart about how 9/11 has been very, very, very good to Booz, Allen & Hamilton. And just so we all know what a grift this whole thing is, there is a helpful note that 70% (!) of the US intelligence budget goes to connected contractors like B, A …
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Fire In The Briarpatch
by Nick Glossop on June 3, 2013
The Briarpatch, a pugnacious periodical from the pearl of the prairies, Regina, Saskatchewan, is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its first print edition back in 1973. Fiercely independent and wholly reader-supported, this venue for the vexed and the visionary is in fund-drive mode and calling for new Sustainers to help it continue its mission to provide original reporting, insight, and analysis from a grassroots perspective for years to come. …
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Austerity Bites–The Hunger Games
by Matthew Payne on May 26, 2013
Despite the collapse of any intellectual justification for cutting deficits during times of economic weakness and the political defeat of those factions supporting such so-called “austerity” policies, both tired and largely ignorant defenses of deficit cutting continue (even from the so-called “left”) and even governments elected on opposing austerity have continued to cut spending and increase taxes. The results, as Krugthullu never tires of pointing out (and has increasingly been …
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Cakewalk
by Malcolm Parker on May 14, 2013
It must be Friday. Two colleagues are making rounds of the cubicles. They carry thin cardboard boxes, limply open, full of slices of spongy and creamy cake wrapped in cellophane. A friend with a camera follows. You take a piece of cake and you have your picture taken with the cake giver.
It’s the cake giver’s last day at work and this is the tradition. It’s been a few weeks …
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Are You A Hippie, And If Not…Wherein Not?
by Nick Glossop on May 14, 2013
In this 1968 episode of Firing Line, William F. Buckley and sociologist Lewis Yablonsky attempt to put Hippie-ism, in the persons of a gooned and pugnacious Jack Kerouac and Ed Sanders of the Fugs, under the microscope. A stilted sort of hilarity ensues. Buckley smirks, Kerouac blunders, swinging wildly, Yablonsky drones and Ed the Fug, alone, emerges with personal dignity intact.
Via Open Culture
William F.: Do
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Legendary Maritime folksinger and feminist Rita MacNeil has died, at the age of 68
by Michelle Lovegrove Thomson on April 17, 2013
The Cape Breton singer died on Tuesday as a result of complications from surgery. She recorded 24 albums over her career, and her song “Working Man” will live on as an evocative and emotional tale of mining-culture in the mid-Twentieth century. I would describe her sound as Celtic showtunes, or 80s adult contemporary imbued with local flair. MacNeil’s Christmas TV specials were a delight. At the core of each song—the …
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BC Film And Television – All Quiet On The Western Front?
by Gaalen Engen on April 17, 2013
A precipice has been steadily building over the last five years and with the collapse of the global economy, parity of the Canadian dollar and an aggressively competitive marketplace, BC’s film and television production industry is teetering on the edge of it. What used to be the third largest producer of film and television in North America next to Los Angeles and New York is now slipping past fifth place. …
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Beaster Bunny
by Craig Elliott on March 31, 2013
I saw this sadly sweet animation about a man whose giant rabbit might be standing between him and love. How could I not share it?
Red Rabbit from Egmont Mayer on Vimeo.
We’ve got a comments section if you’ve got any suggestions along the lines of lessons learned.
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Originally posted September 22, 2011…
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Paul Root Wolpe – Ethical Boundaries For Bio-Tech
by Nick Glossop on March 29, 2013
Paul Root Wolpe, of Emory University, does not spend much time making an argument for clear ethical boundaries for the conduct of bio-technology, rather he just lists off some of the more startling greatest hits of the field, and the argument more or less makes itself: bio-luminescent monkeys, bug-bots, robo-rats, animals as donor part farms (mouse ears), computer chips comprised of self-aggregated rat neurons, creatures with neural implants that …
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Walking With The Beast
by Nick Glossop on March 24, 2013
c/o Charles Fréger < < Wilder Mann Image of The Savage
The bear is the wild man’s close counterpart—in some legends the bear is his father. A beast that walks upright, the bear also hibernates in winter. The symbolic death and rebirth of hibernation herald the arrival of spring with all its plenty. For festival participants, says Fréger, “becoming a bear is a way to express the beast and a way to control the beast.”
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