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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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War of Titles

There’s a lot of debate these days about how “polarized” the country is. If you were to base your conclusions simply on perusing the list of new non-fiction titles at the Ann Arbor District Library (or...

Overheard at the Fair

What fun the Fair was! Lots of good food … crowds of strangers carrying artsy things on sticks … fiddling boys playing for tips … an earnest young woman pressing a brochure into my hand that proclaimed...

Overheard at the Fair

The most frequent conversation I overheard at the Fair was along the lines of the following: TEENAGER: I wanna go hooooome! MOM: No, we’re not going home. Or: KID: I don’t wanna waaaaalk anymore! MOM:...

The Only Thing We Have to Fear …

First, it started with a first-person account of a « white woman’s scary encounter with swarthy scary Ay-rabs »: It seems that 14 scary swarthy men did mighty suspicious things on a flight to L.A. The...

Thank You Canada!

« Dear America »,

‘On November 2nd, please elect a new government.
Signed, Your Friends in Canada …’

The Fair(s)

Thanks to Steve for posting the photos. The one of the spray-painted “ART NOT WAR” sign was actually not “technically” part of the fair(s); it’s been in that bus shelter on South U for...

Your Choice: Kill Birds or Provoke Road Rage

I guess I’m still shaking my head over the blurb in the Ann Arbor News police blotter yesterday: A motorist who stopped to allow ducks to cross the road in Ann Arbor Saturday evening said a passenger of a nearby...

The Hearse

Say hello to The Hearse, which you’ll enjoy if you also enjoy Six Feet Under.

Pleasant Saturday Ride

We took a very nice five-mile roundtrip to the library today, the first time we had done a double ride together. The M30 is rougher and tougher on me than the Bobcat, but performed fine, wonky crank and all. I need to...

Six Words

Page Six reports on a contest in which 25 celeb-writers were asked by BlackBook Magazine to write a short story in no more than six words. (This was evidently a follow-up on an episode in which Ernest Hemingway, given...

T Minus Less than a Week

Much more temperate today than it’s been the past few days. I enjoy the sunlight and the warmth as long as there’s a dip in the humidity and there’s a breeze, or even a wind. I had lunch at...

Another Reason I Listen to the BBC

The announcer deriding the American pronunciation of the word “soccer” (“sah-kuh”), a word which is already in itself apparently an object of derision because the word the rest of the world uses...

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