Taste and memory
Roger Ebert may no longer be able to speak or eat, but thank God he can still blog.
Daily Archive: January 7, 2010
Marriage in NJ
Blue Jersey is live-blogging the state senate debate here in NJ on full marriage equality. UPDATE/BREAKING: Equality fails, 14-20.
suitable poetry (and the privatization of the police)
This seems oddly relevant in the age of twitter:
Sex, literature and limits
A few people have objected to a Naomi Wolf article on pornography I linked to earlier. If you don’t buy the idea that rampant over-exposure to porn deadens our erotic senses, I recommend you...
Democrats are dropping like flies – Republicans are dropping like Democrats (times three)
Justin Gardener points out the obvious (something the mainstream media seems incapable of doing):
Putting the cart before the horse (manure)
I do not expect Chicago School economists to favorably review the Obama Administration’s economic policy, but to suggest that those economic policies, not only those which have been passed (The American Recovery and Reinvestment...
culture is everything (well, mostly everything)
“In short, liberals and conservatives refuse to see the areas in which they have common ground because far too often they simply cannot get past the cultural markers that prevent them from even listening...
