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What should we come to … if political denunciation is to be turned without check against art?

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What should we come to … if political denunciation is to be turned without check against art?

Here I Stand

What should we come to … if political denunciation is to be turned without check against art?

Denunciation

What should we come to … if political denunciation is to be turned without check against art?

You Get Out

“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...

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Adjusting to the New Reality

« Molly Ivins is freaked out ». It’s a great column, but the ending is … a tad naive, I’m afraid. ‘In the name of Jesus Christ Almighty, why are people representing our government...

Worth Quoting

Bill Moyers, « in a speech to People for the American Way »: ‘Of this, I am sure, you can be fearful or free, but you cannot be both. If you are fearful, you put yourself at the mercy of priests and...

Liberty = Girly Car?

So, « this forum pretty much addresses my whole ‘Isn’t it sort of a girly car?’ » problem. One example: ‘I am 32, male, living in the city of Chicago. I used to be a VW Jetta driver...

Where We Stand

I’ve had three Jeeps before: a ‘92 Black Cherry Cherokee Sport; a ‘98 Dark Green Cherokee Sport; and an ‘01 Patriot Blue Wrangler Sport (my current vehicle). I love them all, but was especially...

Almost Done

I never write about or identify my family on my website. They absolutely hate that and have raked me over the coals numerous times, pouring out their venom and anxiety if I so much as dare to mention them on AirBeagle...

On This Day

Other than Jack Ruby’s live TV murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, 24-Nov-04 was a pretty boring day in history: 1926 KVI-AM in Seattle WA begins radio transmissions 1947 John Steinbeck’s novel “The...

It Was Bound to Happen Eventually

I’ve been pretty lucky thus far in my largely pedestrian life in Ann Arbor, because I have a vigilant attitude about vehicular traffic, honed over the years as a pedestrian in the notoriously high-traffic Bay Area...

Big Game

There’s a big game this weekend. Oh, yeah, then there’s that insignificant UC Berkeley/Stanford “Big Game”. (Believe me, I’m not about to stick my foot in my mouth on this one.) Stanford...

Ashbery

Harold Bloom calls John Ashbery in the upcoming Poetry Issue of the Sunday New York Times Book Review “our major poet since the death of Wallace Stevens in 1955.” I don’t know where that leaves Allen...

Tipping Point

I went into Ambrosia twice today, once at 11.30 and once at 3.15, and both times it was too packed to find anywhere to sit down inside. I realized that the place has hit its tipping point of popularity, although...

Whither Winter?

Weather has been creeping toward winter, but (I could be wrong) less steadily than last November. The evenings and nights have been in the low to upper 20s. But the days are still getting up to the high 50s. Today was...

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