What should we come to … if political denunciation is to be turned without check against art?
What should we come to … if political denunciation is to be turned without check against art?
What should we come to … if political denunciation is to be turned without check against art?
“It’s all almost too stereotypical,” Shore reflects. “A 1930s-style military parade as a performative assertion of the Führerprinzip,” she says, referring to the doctrine established by Adolf Hitler, locating...
« Gore Vidal » is back in the Empire and telling it like it is, thank god: ‘He said that he can foresee the war going so badly that [the Emperor George II] will be forced to resign or be...
I was in Kroger last night picking up some groceries. The place was packed, and one of the checkout lines extended past the newspaper rack. I reached over one woman’s basket to grab a copy of the Ann Arbor News...
As we slog around in the weeks of snow that have been dumped on southeast Michigan, it’s mordantly amusing to see what happens in parts of the country that aren’t as used (inured?) to snow as Michigan is: A...
It seems more details have emerged about « Delta’s new pricing strategy » this weekend. ‘Under Delta’s new structure, prices for last-minute walk-up fares have been cut by as much...
The weather has been abyssmal. Haven’t been able to get outside on the book since New Year’s, since the sidewalks and streets are just treacherous. Since I want to average 5 miles per day all year, I’m...
I enjoy all the year-end lists that pop up on the WWW around this time, mostly because they demonstrate that if there’s one thing the Web’s good at, it’s making lists. I also enjoy realizing that...
The airline industry’s … further descent into anarchy, let’s say … continued this week. This time, a « 28-hour ordeal on Northwest flight 33 » shows that things are all...
It’s hard for me to write anything about Christmas without coming across as cynical and bitter and old and jaded and all that stuff. So I won’t. I’m thankful for Frank and for Bayley and for David and...
2004-12-26 01:04:59 We spent quite a bit of time driving around in the Jeep today. The seven inches of snow and hard-packed ice on side streets were quite fun. The Grand was rock-solid and never slipped or slid unless I...
On Christmas Day, the one day of the year when ‘Goodwill Toward Men’ is supposed to prevail, comes news that « our post-retirement future is in the hands of a buncha nuts and partisan political...
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