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I saw this film in an art gallery 20 years ago, and flirted a little with the animator who made it. I thought I would never see it again...

Over on the Twitters, Marc Rettig points us to a little Forbes piece, ‘Culture of Purpose’ Is Key To Success According To New Research...

David “ The Wire ” Simon explains in a comment on his blog responding to the question, “ I’m curious to hear your thoughts regarding the...

Goofy, I know. But I couldn't resist.

So I guess scandal season is upon us, as once again Republicans try to disrupt a Democratic President's electoral victory through a c...

So I go to see Iron Man 3 and there are a bunch of action movie trailers before the movie starts. Including this one for White House Dow...

Driftglass offers a thumbnail sketch of paranoia and deceit entangled in pseudo-libertarian politics. For them, the world makes only ...

Another item for the “Naomi Wolf is not too bright” file: she's allowed LewRockwell.com to post several articles of hers. Lew Roc...

A long, unhappy index of links for Obama: An Authoritarian Corporatist .

Another silly meme image. It was going around Facebook and I couldn't resist.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I am also informed of the variant known as Grey's Law...

Andrew O'Hehir has an good screed in Salon, How Boston exposes America’s dark post-9/11 bargain, which says that the events around t...

These words were published by a well-known radical feminist in 1974. (Note that at that time, “transsexual” was used where today one woul...

I keep referencing this cartoon and having to track it down again, so I'm posting a copy of it here for my convenience. It makes the ...

I don't know if this story is true , but I know that it's plausible. I am a feminist. I have marched at the barricades, subsc...

I just discovered that Blogger has mislaid my post about what may be my favorite news story ever. He was walking toward the stairs wh...

This nugget of snark about David Brooks' writing, from Charles Pierce, is irresistible. Irritable mental gestures that resemble ...

Jesse Walker at Reason has a good overview of things to know about crises like the Boston bombing. This snippet stood out for me: Mov...

Tim Wise helpfully provides a list of White terrorists. For future reference.

NPR's new Code Switch blog features a knockout long article, When Our Kids Own America from Gene Demby of Postbourgie. It's ab...

Interesting. Though it's funny and frustrating that this stuff need to be said. A sanely designed personal computer system: I...

For future information hygene reference: NaturalNews.com is not a source of reliable information.

Driftglass offers a stunning demonstration of David Brooks denying his own statements in support of the Iraq war.

The UK Guardian article Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres is a cavalcade of horror. It pains me to excerpt it; almost every s...

On Twitter, I find that I often need to express this idea. It is obvious to me that you have badly misunderstood what I was trying to ...

In an amazing interview at the Washington Post Wonkblog, Mark A. R. Kleiman succinctly delivers a lot of truth and clear thinking about...

Why did we invade Iraq? For oil? Then where's the oil? Greg Palast has a different theory. He thinks it was to stop oil from flo...

Artist Michael Lee Lunsford has an interesting little project: Fully Dressed Redesigns of Superheroines . This hits me right where I live...

Mark Manson writing at Postmasculine gives us The Rise And Fall of Ken Wilber , a frustrated critique of Wilber's thought and the Int...

There's a blog post from the LayerVault folks making the rounds among interaction designers. It's about what they call “progressi...