• The Ted Talk You weren’t Supposed to See

    Nick Hanauer, a self described “super-rich” entrepreneur, gave a compelling TED Talk about how the real job creators are the middle class—not the super-rich. Though in the past TED has released over 100 different political videos, they thought this one was too partisan to release. Under pressure from many internet sources, TED finally relented and [...]

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    Sing About the Dark Times: Bill Ayers Interview

    Every year Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, spend a couple months residing in Northern California. Their modest cabin tucked behind the Redwood Curtain has been a perfect place to escape the media frenzy stirred up during the 2008 campaign, when former Republican VP candidate turned failed reality TV star, Sarah Palin, teamed up with [...]

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    Video: Christopher Hitchens 1949-2011

    The day Christopher Hitchens passed away I received a considerable amount of calls and emails offering condolences. It was a bit odd considering that I never knew the man though, admittedly, I do have an entire shelf dedicated to his work. That said, the internet has been flooded with people both mourning his death and taking the opportunity to bash him [...]

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    Occupy Art

    “I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” – Henri Matisse Every cultural movement leaves in its wake a sea of art. Over the past two months the Occupy Movement has not only brought the world some stunning photos, it has inspired quite an array of posters, prints, and paintings. Although many [...]

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Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’: A Personal Boycott

Although I appreciate that I will not be missed, and I may live to regret this anticipatory despair, the following states the rationale for my personal boycott of Ridley Scott’s new Alien-derived film Prometheus. According to Scott, interviewed for The Hollywood Reporter: “NASA and the Vatican agree that [it is] almost mathematically impossible that we [...]

Apple’s View of the Future Circa 1995

This promo of ‘the future’ was included in a cd demo put out by Apple CEO John Sculley in 1995.  Like the creators of the pager never suspected that it would primarily be used by drug dealers, Apple failed to predict that these advancements intended for education and business would instead  be used for sexting, playing Angry Birds, and [...]

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Doctorow, Amis and Atwood discuss America’s Global Politics

This year’s PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature brought roughly 100 writers from 25 countries to New York. One of the most fascinating talks was with writers E.L. Doctorow (Homer & Langley, Ragtime), Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin, Year of the Flood) and Martin Amis (Money, The Pregnant Widow) regarding America and its role in global politics, something the Sunday [...]

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What More to Debate?

As the 2012 GOP Primary debates come to an end, one thing is certain: The Republican Party has gone mad, frothing from every orifice, Old-Yeller-in-the-corncrib-gnashing-at-the-hand-that-feeds, mad. For the casual observer this campaign season is just like all the rest. It’s the customary chest thumping of primates asserting they’re dominance. A few debates in I was about to [...]

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Kathy Acker’s 4H Club

Tattooed, mastectomized, pierced, body-built and crew cut, Kathy Acker rode her motorcycle along the wet seam of the posthuman, defying and pirating the traffic of literature in her leather jacket and sunglasses. Acker was a mythographer, rewriting the corpus of literature, rewriting the body, writing through the orgasmic body and writing on and into the [...]