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To set the record straight: While the country was busy with CBS and Rather's mistake, the story of Bush going AWOL was lost.
posted on Jan-17-05 at 10:26 AM
Meet the mashups.
posted on Jan-9-05 at 9:22 PM
The Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, with Margeaux Mundeyn, Pavel Törd, Ida Nevasayneva, Vladimir Legupski, Sveltlana Lofatkina, Olga Supphozova, Lariska Dumbchenko, Fifi Barkova is reviewed by Joan Acocella, "they pass through the joke and come out the other side, where the subject, having been laughed at, is once again embraced, enthroned." pic 1, and 2 .
posted on Jan-8-05 at 6:59 PM
Update from Holland. After the filmmaker Theo van Gogh's murder by Mohammed Bouyeri, the Dutch creed of tolerance has come under siege.
posted on Dec-27-04 at 4:24 PM
Wladimir Kaminer represents an emerging Russo-German culture. He is a DJ spinning Russian wild ska-punk club music, he is a radio talk-show host, the author of several best-selling books depicting the life of Russian immigrants in Germany, and a sort of good-humored emblem of the emerging hybrid culture of Berlin. In a fascinating interview, he reveals post Soviet Russia, and Russian lives and literature in the West; you can read his stories, Paris Lost, and Animal Transport, and the usual overview of his works and of his significance, in the NYT Books section.
posted on Dec-24-04 at 6:03 PM
Being in touch with the absurdity of life got to lead to the absurdity of form. Dave Eggers discusses the Monty Pythons’ brand of comedy.
posted on Dec-23-04 at 10:52 AM
Festivus going mainstream.
posted on Dec-21-04 at 4:05 PM
The Vatican's university in Rome is starting a seminar on satanism and exorcism. "The seminar will conclude with the testimony of two exorcists who will explain how to distinguish between someone who is ill and requiring medical care, and one is 'possessed by demons.'"
posted on Dec-19-04 at 2:09 PM
Don't miss tonight on PBS the final NOW with Bill Moyers. "Bill Moyers looks inside the right-wing media machine that the conservative NEW YORK TIMES columnist David Brooks called a "dazzlingly efficient ideology delivery system." The program examines how a vast echo chamber that is admittedly partisan and powerfully successful delivers information — and misinformation — with more regard for propaganda than fact. Founding father to the conservative movement, Richard Viguerie tells Moyers, 'That’s what journalism is, Bill. It’s all just opinion. Just opinion.'”
posted on Dec-17-04 at 3:36 PM
A hundred years of “The Protestant Ethic.” Elizabeth Kolbert on Max Weber in The New Yorker.
posted on Dec-9-04 at 10:53 PM
"A glance at this list, and at the daunting array of actors who have worked with him over the years, many repeatedly, suggests that Mr. Nichols is not only smart but also the cause of intelligence in others. One of the reasons his movies reliably yield pleasure in spite of their limitations is the quality of the acting on display." It seems that Mr. Nichols is also able to inspire profoundly interesting reviews such as this one in the NYT.
posted on Nov-28-04 at 8:38 AM
Computer as author. (NYT) "Dave Striver loved the university - its ivy-covered clocktowers, its ancient and sturdy brick, and its sun-splashed verdant greens and eager youth. The university, contrary to popular opinion, is far from free of the stark unforgiving trials of the business world: academia has its own tests, and some are as merciless as any in the marketplace. A prime example is the dissertation defense: to earn the Ph.D., to become a doctor, one must pass an oral examination on one's dissertation. This was a test Professor Edward Hart enjoyed giving." by Brutus.1
posted on Nov-22-04 at 9:12 AM
Mr. Lippy, 41, is single-minded about the need for a general-interest magazine that is not dumb (NYT). The result is Esopus.
posted on Nov-13-04 at 8:39 AM
All you need to know about Cornholeing, and more.
posted on Nov-1-04 at 12:31 PM
Identity theft is epidemic.
posted on Oct-25-04 at 9:06 AM
Chapter 1. Excerpt from Bob Dylan's autobiographical book, Chronicles, Volume One.
posted on Oct-20-04 at 11:27 AM
Lie Down for America, by Thomas Frank. "'How can anyone who has ever worked for someone else vote Republican?' she asked. How could so many people get it so wrong?"
posted on Oct-18-04 at 8:10 AM
Western dominance, Islamist terror, and the Arab imagination, by Sadik J. Al-Azm, emeritus professor at the University of Damascus. (via Aldaily)
posted on Oct-15-04 at 11:22 PM
The alternative to blind belief is not simply unbelief but a different kind of belief - one that embraces uncertainty and enables us to respect others whom we do not understand, in friendship that serves to forge connections among individuals across their differences - we see deconstruction in action.
posted on Oct-14-04 at 9:55 AM
In terms of our genes, we humans are all the same -- except for the ways in which we're different. Pharmacogenomics has for years been touted as the ultimate benefit of the genomics revolution. But to many, this revolution has a troubling side.
posted on Oct-13-04 at 8:55 AM
Derrida's legacy, "For a justice to come." An uninterpretation.
posted on Oct-11-04 at 10:23 AM
Jacques Derrida is not.
posted on Oct-9-04 at 10:15 AM
The eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment.
posted on Oct-7-04 at 8:45 PM
What's up with Christopher Hitchens nowadays? Here is an interview with him by Johann Hari.
posted on Oct-2-04 at 1:10 PM
Redemption and the Power of Man. In Christianity, redemption is essentially an act of divine grace, the salvation of a sinful humanity that is incapable of saving itself. In Judaism redemption depends entirely on man, who is responsible for his own fate. To what extent did Judaism influence the development of progressive, pluralistic democracy?
posted on Sep-22-04 at 4:24 PM
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.
posted on Sep-20-04 at 11:56 AM
It's Labor Day today. (newsfilter)
posted on Sep-6-04 at 8:16 PM
The most comprehensive presentation ever mounted on the life, theories, and the social and political involvement of Albert Einstein will be at the Skirball Cultural centerr, Los Angeles, from September 14, organized by the American Museum of Natural History, and revived by Tom Teicholz. Incidentally, Discover magazine dedicates the whole September issue to Einstein (subscription).
posted on Sep-5-04 at 12:24 AM
Alain Finkielkraut's reflections on French Anti-Semitism.
posted on Aug-31-04 at 2:49 PM
The insolent art of Michel Houellebecq. "There are certain books—sardonic and acutely pessimistic—that systematically affront all our current habits of living, and treat our presumptions of mind as the delusions of the cretinous." Julian Barnes' 2003 review in The New Yorker.
posted on Aug-28-04 at 9:59 PM
A letter from the wife of one of the commanders of the three Swift boats, killed in action later, reports on her husbands's views. (via NYT)
posted on Aug-27-04 at 11:07 AM
What Went Wrong in Iraq, By Larry Diamond, From Foreign Affairs, September/October 2004
posted on Aug-25-04 at 11:10 AM
The NYT's investigation into the birth and background of the anti Kerry ad about his Vietnam service record.
posted on Aug-20-04 at 9:50 AM
Corporate culture is nothing more than the "crystallization of the stupidity of a group of people at a given moment", says Corinne Maier, the author of the slacker manifesto, "Bonjour Paresse". Better read this before clocking in Monday. (NYT)
posted on Aug-15-04 at 9:11 PM
P. J. O'Rourke interviews Colin Powell in The Atlantic.
posted on Aug-13-04 at 2:35 PM
Hacker Pleads Guilty. The Minnesota man who spread a modified version of the MSBlast worm over the Internet last summer pleaded guilty on Wednesday and faces 18 to 37 months in prison.
posted on Aug-12-04 at 1:25 PM
Is it the start of a moral life when one really acts as though another life is just as important as one's own, or is that an obsession skirting mental illness?
posted on Aug-10-04 at 9:18 AM
The Shore, a short-story by Richard Ford.
posted on Aug-6-04 at 11:55 AM
An OpEd piece by Bruce Springsteen, announcing the tour of Vote for Change, the umbrella of a new group including the Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., the Dixie Chicks, Jurassic 5, James Taylor and Jackson Browne. (NYT)
posted on Aug-5-04 at 9:51 AM
Most of us are whiners, blaming circumstances for our failings; a precious few function in a self-sufficient bubble and able to shape their circumstances, never accepting the role of being a victim. Inder Parmar is such a man.
posted on Jul-31-04 at 11:07 PM
The exact time.
posted on Jul-30-04 at 10:37 PM
THE TERROR WEB. Were the Madrid bombings part of a new, far-reaching jihad being plotted on the Internet?
posted on Jul-29-04 at 2:23 PM
Debating the Moral Obligations of Memory. Jean Améry inspired Avishai Margalit and the late W.G. Sebald to likewise wrestle with questions of torture, revenge, and memory; questions as the destruction of memory, the obsession with memory, nationalism and memory, false memory, bad memory, opportunistic memory, lost memory, “too much” memory, memory versus reconciliation and, yes, the ethics of memory. In the Boston Review, Susie Linfield observes that for Améry, "the dream time of vengeance is the best place to be." (via the Cultural News Digest, nextbook.org)
posted on Aug-15-03 at 4:57 PM
Every Unhappy Family Has Its Own Bilinear Influence Function.
posted on Apr-25-03 at 1:42 PM
Bin Laden, Dostoevsky and the reality principle: an interview with André Glücksmann. Europe is trapped by complacency and an all too human desire for oblivious contentment, says a leading French philosopher. This helps ensure the success of the nihilistic terror and extremist ideology exemplified by al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein. Nobody wants war – but genocide is worse than war.
posted on Apr-7-03 at 9:02 AM
Cellular politics. It seems that merely "reacting" is always a step behind of a fast evolving hostile force, and some pre-emptive strategy is a must.
posted on Mar-19-03 at 8:23 AM
Sex Week at Yale
posted on Feb-26-03 at 8:31 AM
Computer user suffers "eThrombosis" People who spend many hours every day sitting in front of a computer could be at risk of developing deep vein thrombosis - the potentially fatal blood clots. Go get a sandwich.
posted on Jan-29-03 at 12:52 PM
An imaginative solution to California's school budget crisis.
posted on Jan-24-03 at 10:09 AM
Back in the time of which I am speaking, due to our Coordinators had mandated us, we had all seen that educational video of "It's Yours to Do With What You Like!" in which teens like ourselfs speak on the healthy benefits of getting off by oneself and doing what one feels like in terms of self-touching, which what we learned from that video was, there is nothing wrong with self-touching, because love is a mystery but the mechanics of love need not be, so go off alone, see what is up, with you and your relation to your own gonads, and the main thing is, just have fun, feeling no shame!"
posted on Jan-22-03 at 5:11 PM
posted on Jan-17-05 at 10:26 AM
Meet the mashups.
posted on Jan-9-05 at 9:22 PM
The Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, with Margeaux Mundeyn, Pavel Törd, Ida Nevasayneva, Vladimir Legupski, Sveltlana Lofatkina, Olga Supphozova, Lariska Dumbchenko, Fifi Barkova is reviewed by Joan Acocella, "they pass through the joke and come out the other side, where the subject, having been laughed at, is once again embraced, enthroned." pic 1, and 2 .
posted on Jan-8-05 at 6:59 PM
Update from Holland. After the filmmaker Theo van Gogh's murder by Mohammed Bouyeri, the Dutch creed of tolerance has come under siege.
posted on Dec-27-04 at 4:24 PM
Wladimir Kaminer represents an emerging Russo-German culture. He is a DJ spinning Russian wild ska-punk club music, he is a radio talk-show host, the author of several best-selling books depicting the life of Russian immigrants in Germany, and a sort of good-humored emblem of the emerging hybrid culture of Berlin. In a fascinating interview, he reveals post Soviet Russia, and Russian lives and literature in the West; you can read his stories, Paris Lost, and Animal Transport, and the usual overview of his works and of his significance, in the NYT Books section.
posted on Dec-24-04 at 6:03 PM
Being in touch with the absurdity of life got to lead to the absurdity of form. Dave Eggers discusses the Monty Pythons’ brand of comedy.
posted on Dec-23-04 at 10:52 AM
Festivus going mainstream.
posted on Dec-21-04 at 4:05 PM
The Vatican's university in Rome is starting a seminar on satanism and exorcism. "The seminar will conclude with the testimony of two exorcists who will explain how to distinguish between someone who is ill and requiring medical care, and one is 'possessed by demons.'"
posted on Dec-19-04 at 2:09 PM
Don't miss tonight on PBS the final NOW with Bill Moyers. "Bill Moyers looks inside the right-wing media machine that the conservative NEW YORK TIMES columnist David Brooks called a "dazzlingly efficient ideology delivery system." The program examines how a vast echo chamber that is admittedly partisan and powerfully successful delivers information — and misinformation — with more regard for propaganda than fact. Founding father to the conservative movement, Richard Viguerie tells Moyers, 'That’s what journalism is, Bill. It’s all just opinion. Just opinion.'”
posted on Dec-17-04 at 3:36 PM
A hundred years of “The Protestant Ethic.” Elizabeth Kolbert on Max Weber in The New Yorker.
posted on Dec-9-04 at 10:53 PM
"A glance at this list, and at the daunting array of actors who have worked with him over the years, many repeatedly, suggests that Mr. Nichols is not only smart but also the cause of intelligence in others. One of the reasons his movies reliably yield pleasure in spite of their limitations is the quality of the acting on display." It seems that Mr. Nichols is also able to inspire profoundly interesting reviews such as this one in the NYT.
posted on Nov-28-04 at 8:38 AM
Computer as author. (NYT) "Dave Striver loved the university - its ivy-covered clocktowers, its ancient and sturdy brick, and its sun-splashed verdant greens and eager youth. The university, contrary to popular opinion, is far from free of the stark unforgiving trials of the business world: academia has its own tests, and some are as merciless as any in the marketplace. A prime example is the dissertation defense: to earn the Ph.D., to become a doctor, one must pass an oral examination on one's dissertation. This was a test Professor Edward Hart enjoyed giving." by Brutus.1
posted on Nov-22-04 at 9:12 AM
Mr. Lippy, 41, is single-minded about the need for a general-interest magazine that is not dumb (NYT). The result is Esopus.
posted on Nov-13-04 at 8:39 AM
All you need to know about Cornholeing, and more.
posted on Nov-1-04 at 12:31 PM
Identity theft is epidemic.
posted on Oct-25-04 at 9:06 AM
Chapter 1. Excerpt from Bob Dylan's autobiographical book, Chronicles, Volume One.
posted on Oct-20-04 at 11:27 AM
Lie Down for America, by Thomas Frank. "'How can anyone who has ever worked for someone else vote Republican?' she asked. How could so many people get it so wrong?"
posted on Oct-18-04 at 8:10 AM
Western dominance, Islamist terror, and the Arab imagination, by Sadik J. Al-Azm, emeritus professor at the University of Damascus. (via Aldaily)
posted on Oct-15-04 at 11:22 PM
The alternative to blind belief is not simply unbelief but a different kind of belief - one that embraces uncertainty and enables us to respect others whom we do not understand, in friendship that serves to forge connections among individuals across their differences - we see deconstruction in action.
posted on Oct-14-04 at 9:55 AM
In terms of our genes, we humans are all the same -- except for the ways in which we're different. Pharmacogenomics has for years been touted as the ultimate benefit of the genomics revolution. But to many, this revolution has a troubling side.
posted on Oct-13-04 at 8:55 AM
Derrida's legacy, "For a justice to come." An uninterpretation.
posted on Oct-11-04 at 10:23 AM
Jacques Derrida is not.
posted on Oct-9-04 at 10:15 AM
The eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment.
posted on Oct-7-04 at 8:45 PM
What's up with Christopher Hitchens nowadays? Here is an interview with him by Johann Hari.
posted on Oct-2-04 at 1:10 PM
Redemption and the Power of Man. In Christianity, redemption is essentially an act of divine grace, the salvation of a sinful humanity that is incapable of saving itself. In Judaism redemption depends entirely on man, who is responsible for his own fate. To what extent did Judaism influence the development of progressive, pluralistic democracy?
posted on Sep-22-04 at 4:24 PM
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.
posted on Sep-20-04 at 11:56 AM
It's Labor Day today. (newsfilter)
posted on Sep-6-04 at 8:16 PM
The most comprehensive presentation ever mounted on the life, theories, and the social and political involvement of Albert Einstein will be at the Skirball Cultural centerr, Los Angeles, from September 14, organized by the American Museum of Natural History, and revived by Tom Teicholz. Incidentally, Discover magazine dedicates the whole September issue to Einstein (subscription).
posted on Sep-5-04 at 12:24 AM
Alain Finkielkraut's reflections on French Anti-Semitism.
posted on Aug-31-04 at 2:49 PM
The insolent art of Michel Houellebecq. "There are certain books—sardonic and acutely pessimistic—that systematically affront all our current habits of living, and treat our presumptions of mind as the delusions of the cretinous." Julian Barnes' 2003 review in The New Yorker.
posted on Aug-28-04 at 9:59 PM
A letter from the wife of one of the commanders of the three Swift boats, killed in action later, reports on her husbands's views. (via NYT)
posted on Aug-27-04 at 11:07 AM
What Went Wrong in Iraq, By Larry Diamond, From Foreign Affairs, September/October 2004
posted on Aug-25-04 at 11:10 AM
The NYT's investigation into the birth and background of the anti Kerry ad about his Vietnam service record.
posted on Aug-20-04 at 9:50 AM
Corporate culture is nothing more than the "crystallization of the stupidity of a group of people at a given moment", says Corinne Maier, the author of the slacker manifesto, "Bonjour Paresse". Better read this before clocking in Monday. (NYT)
posted on Aug-15-04 at 9:11 PM
P. J. O'Rourke interviews Colin Powell in The Atlantic.
posted on Aug-13-04 at 2:35 PM
Hacker Pleads Guilty. The Minnesota man who spread a modified version of the MSBlast worm over the Internet last summer pleaded guilty on Wednesday and faces 18 to 37 months in prison.
posted on Aug-12-04 at 1:25 PM
Is it the start of a moral life when one really acts as though another life is just as important as one's own, or is that an obsession skirting mental illness?
posted on Aug-10-04 at 9:18 AM
The Shore, a short-story by Richard Ford.
posted on Aug-6-04 at 11:55 AM
An OpEd piece by Bruce Springsteen, announcing the tour of Vote for Change, the umbrella of a new group including the Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., the Dixie Chicks, Jurassic 5, James Taylor and Jackson Browne. (NYT)
posted on Aug-5-04 at 9:51 AM
Most of us are whiners, blaming circumstances for our failings; a precious few function in a self-sufficient bubble and able to shape their circumstances, never accepting the role of being a victim. Inder Parmar is such a man.
posted on Jul-31-04 at 11:07 PM
The exact time.
posted on Jul-30-04 at 10:37 PM
THE TERROR WEB. Were the Madrid bombings part of a new, far-reaching jihad being plotted on the Internet?
posted on Jul-29-04 at 2:23 PM
Debating the Moral Obligations of Memory. Jean Améry inspired Avishai Margalit and the late W.G. Sebald to likewise wrestle with questions of torture, revenge, and memory; questions as the destruction of memory, the obsession with memory, nationalism and memory, false memory, bad memory, opportunistic memory, lost memory, “too much” memory, memory versus reconciliation and, yes, the ethics of memory. In the Boston Review, Susie Linfield observes that for Améry, "the dream time of vengeance is the best place to be." (via the Cultural News Digest, nextbook.org)
posted on Aug-15-03 at 4:57 PM
Every Unhappy Family Has Its Own Bilinear Influence Function.
posted on Apr-25-03 at 1:42 PM
Bin Laden, Dostoevsky and the reality principle: an interview with André Glücksmann. Europe is trapped by complacency and an all too human desire for oblivious contentment, says a leading French philosopher. This helps ensure the success of the nihilistic terror and extremist ideology exemplified by al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein. Nobody wants war – but genocide is worse than war.
posted on Apr-7-03 at 9:02 AM
Cellular politics. It seems that merely "reacting" is always a step behind of a fast evolving hostile force, and some pre-emptive strategy is a must.
posted on Mar-19-03 at 8:23 AM
Sex Week at Yale
posted on Feb-26-03 at 8:31 AM
Computer user suffers "eThrombosis" People who spend many hours every day sitting in front of a computer could be at risk of developing deep vein thrombosis - the potentially fatal blood clots. Go get a sandwich.
posted on Jan-29-03 at 12:52 PM
An imaginative solution to California's school budget crisis.
posted on Jan-24-03 at 10:09 AM
Back in the time of which I am speaking, due to our Coordinators had mandated us, we had all seen that educational video of "It's Yours to Do With What You Like!" in which teens like ourselfs speak on the healthy benefits of getting off by oneself and doing what one feels like in terms of self-touching, which what we learned from that video was, there is nothing wrong with self-touching, because love is a mystery but the mechanics of love need not be, so go off alone, see what is up, with you and your relation to your own gonads, and the main thing is, just have fun, feeling no shame!"
posted on Jan-22-03 at 5:11 PM
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