Tagged: Driving Blind

Because daily “Driving Blind” posts began to feel both overly taxing and to some degree redundant, I’ve decided to try combining them into one longer list of links to be posted each Friday afternoon. Also,...

“Over the years, they had destroyed all of him, removing hands, arms, and legs and leaving him with substitutes as delicate and useless as chess pieces. And now they were tampering with something more...

“’We’re all fools,’ said Clemens, ‘all the time. It’s just we’re a different kind each day. We think, I’m not a fool today. I’ve learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not...

“Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.” I’m on the run this afternoon so I’ll have to keep...

“‘No,’ said a voice, ‘the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.’” I’ve never seen Logan’s Run, but Bioshock creator...

“They’ll fry you, bleach you, change you! Crack you, flake you away until you’re nothing but a husband, a working man, the one with the money who pays so they can come sit in...

A new report from the ESA gives some “essential facts” about the video game industry, including who plays and what their interested in. We might finally see some action from the courts on unpaid...

“A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his...

“The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool.” Rebecca Rosen explains why we should care about the government collecting...

In light of the season three finale, Kathleen Geier speculates on the politics of the show using historical analogs. John B. Judis on the administration’s constitutional-amnesia, and the difference between congressional checks and balances, and...

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”   As Mark pointed...

“Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.” Pitchfork breaks their layout and my eyes with this review of the new Daft Punk album. Cara Ellison writes about...

“All the things which had uses. All the mountains which had names. We’ll give them new names, but the old names are there, somewhere in time…” Noam Chomsky lists the many paths to disaster....