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Things We’re Enjoying XIV
Summer may finally be here. Here’s a few things that we’ve been enjoying as it starts to heat up. Tom If you’re anything like me, you probably think you should be eating more brown rice. But it’s hard...
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Mondays Still Moral in N.C.
Well, no insider news about the Moral Mondays protests in Raleigh, but at least the Times has noticed. Among the more telling points are N.C. Republican congress-folks’ takes on the protests: “Thom...
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Things We’re Enjoying XV
Here’s a few things that we’ve been enjoying over the past week. Marian This endorsement falls in the category not so much of “Things I’m Enjoying”, so much as “Things I’m Gonna Enjoy.” I’ve been...
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Getting Meta about Metadata
In 2007, McSweeney’s came out with a book of essays by Lawrence Weschler entitled Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences. The collection focused on the potential insights to be gained by placing...
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Zorn Meets Metheny
Last month, two iconoclast musicians collaborated on an album for the first time. Pat Metheny’s renditions of John Zorn songs have caught more attention than either individual’s stand-alone projects...
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The Politics of Today
Erik Loomis makes a good point about a well-intentioned yet revealing excerpt from George Packer’s new book: What Packer’s moralism about the choices elite makes miss is that they always made those...
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Things We’re Enjoying XVI
Here’s a sampling of what we’ve been enjoying this past week. Maria It was around the time Yeezus leaked when I first heard about The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!, an album released...
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The Mind Reels
As everyone has surely heard by now, SCOTUS struck down section 4 of the Voting Rights Act this morning, effectively rendering the pre-clearance provision a dead letter until Congress rewrites the...
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An Open Letter to Paula Deen
I confess having little interest in the Paula Deen story, most likely like most of you. There seems little abnormal or interesting about Deen’s racism except, perhaps, her openness about it. When...
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