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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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Integrity of the Game
This past Tuesday evening, T.J. Quinn, Pedro Gomez and Mike Fish of ESPN’s Outside the Lines reported that MLB will seek to suspend a couple of its biggest stars, not to mention quite a few other...
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Rev. Tyson: “Moral Mondays” in His Own Words
Frankly, this video deserves its own post.
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“Moral Mondays” in Raleigh
For the past five weeks, North Carolina citizens of all stripes have been protesting their state legislature, calling attention most specifically to a series of bills and agendas many critics contend...
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Things We’re Enjoying XIII
Here is our thirteenth installment of things we’ve been enjoying. Marian The New York Public Library’s excellent series LIVE from the NYPL has recently hosted an evening with Dan Savage––founder of the...
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On Empathy
There is a great profile in this week’s Times Magazine on the author Colum McCann, his new book TransAtlantic, and his recent trip to Newtown, CT, where he discussed his last book – Let the Great World...
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Presto, Read the Communist Manifesto/Guerrillas in the Midst, a Guevara Named...
Scott Lemieux of Lawyers, Guns and Money is one of the better bloggers out there when it comes to law and political economy, but maybe less so rap music. Lemieux posted a brief item the other day...
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More on the Southern Fantastic
I’ve been thinking about Keith’s most recent post on the “Southern Fantastic”—the common and consistent mythification of the American South in film. Keith offers lots of good cinematic examples, and I...
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Penance
I didn’t provide Tom with an endorsement this week because I was traveling… hmm, well not really. Ok, the real reason I didn’t provide one is because I ignored Tom’s email and thought “boom.” Perhaps...
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Things We’re Enjoying XII
Here’s our Memorial Day installment of things we’ve been enjoying. Modeled on the Slate Culture Gabfest‘s weekly endorsements segment, we recommend things we’ve been reading, watching, listening to,...
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Bring On the Robots
Can we please end this charade already? There is absolutely no reason for MLB to refuse to implement comprehensive instant replay immediately – the games are being compromised, and the situation –...
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