"The lofty vision of a stateless, marketless world faces obstacles that are not moral but technical, and it’s important to grasp exactly what they are." Seth Ackerman for Jacobin Magazine on
"thinking concretely and practically about how we can free ourselves from social institutions that place such confining limits on the kind of society we are able to have. Because of one thing we can be certain: the present system will either be replaced or it will go on forever."
posted by davidjmcgee
on Jan 7, 2013 -
30 comments
Seth Mnookin courageously fought heroin addiction and re-launched himself as a well-regarded writer. His new book
The Panic Virus raised several questions about the science behind claims that vaccinations contribute to autism, and that the consequences of doing so resulted in the reemergence of formerly eradicated diseases such as measles and whooping cough. In that light, he recently criticized a new
PBS Series which, despite strong scientific evidence to the contrary, again suggests the vaccination-autism connection. This led to a
classless attack on Mnookin's former struggles with addiction. His pained
response.
posted by littlemanclan
on Apr 22, 2011 -
80 comments
"There was a night, maybe sometime around 1993, when
I [Joe Matt] was working on an issue of my comic book,
Peepshow and I was using some xeroxes of
Peanuts strips from the collection, “You Can Do It, Charlie Brown” as blotter-paper. Anyway, there came a moment when I was using white-out and to remove some excess white-out from my brush, I wiped it on the blotter paper beneath my hand. And that’s how I came to idly white-out the words balloons on a few
Peanuts strips. Once I saw the balloons whited-out and forgot what they originally said, I began filling them with the first
perverted thing my brain thought they might say. It was so much fun and I was so happy with the results that I brought the pages out to show to
Seth and
Chester [Brown] the next day. Seth was eager to try it and immediately suggested we each go home and produce a set number of pages for a mini comic.
Less than a week later, Chester brought out his original take on the concept and put Seth and I to shame."
[more inside]
posted by Alvy Ampersand
on Jan 20, 2011 -
56 comments
HBO's Deadwood is quite possibly the best television show ever produced. Not only is it amazingly gripping stuff, it's also meticulously researched. (Pretty easy to do when the
entire city is a registered
historic landmark.)
Sure, we all know that
Wild Bill and
Calamity Jane were real people. As it turns out, though, almost
every main character in the show (and many minor ones) had a real life counterpart, as did many of the
events.
Deadwood notables
EB Farnum,
Reverend H W Smith,
Seth Bullock and his partner
Sol Star,
Colorado Charlie Utter,
Al Swerengen with his Gem Saloon, and the crosseyed gambler
Jack McCall all lived and breathed in one of America's most storied cities.
posted by absalom
on Dec 10, 2004 -
82 comments
