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Monthly Archives: June 2007

throw stones

June 29, 2007 – 8:37 pm

The White House is falling down. Metaphorically speaking.
I mean, of course, that the Bush administration has been playing an impossible game of Jenga for the past four years, and it’s finally starting to topple in a stunning display of unprecedented Congressional chutzpah. C.I.A. leaks. Bold healthcare statements. Cheney exposed for the psychopath he really [...]

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invisible race

June 28, 2007 – 4:39 pm

The New York Times just broke this story which reports on a court case today which takes a huge leap backward in race struggles which have been slowly improving for the last century:
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected diversity plans in two major school districts that take race into account in assigning students but left [...]

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sick, slick

June 20, 2007 – 6:31 pm

According to Best Week Ever’s blog, there are now two tweenaged boys who are official and high-paid paparazzi. This makes me wonder whether I should have lived in Los Angeles as a child. Would that have started my journalism career? Would I be, right now, sporting a high-tech Canon and taking unauthorized photographs of Keira [...]

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talent, talons

June 20, 2007 – 3:48 pm

I found out that this man Amiri Barksdale who works at The Nation creates intensely beautiful works in oil (I assume), and has a great Web site to boot. He has a fantastic show right now (I mean, I haven’t been to it, but I assume it’s fantastic because his work is really great) at [...]

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