Politics
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Public Domain Day
Yesterday was public domain day. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Leon Trotsky, Emma Goldman, and Mikhael Bulgakov, among others, are now free of copyright restrictions. Erm, in Europe. This whole thing is really confusing, and I’m no lawyer. But as far as…
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Integrated Shelves
Sadly, like so many independently owned businesses, many LGBT bookstores are closing up shop. Andrew Belonsky argues that it may not be a cut and dry story of “big business squeezing out the little guy” though, but instead a sign…
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PFC Bradley Manning Update
PFC Bradley Manning is the man accused of providing classified information to the Wikileaks project. He is currently being held in the brig of the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, VA, where he has been for the last five months.…
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CIA Response to WikiLeaks: “WTF”
A report from the Washington Post on Wednesday describes an effort by the CIA to assess the impact of WikiLeaks on U.S. national security. The effort is known as the WikiLeaks Task Force. Apparently it’s also commonly referred to as…
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“A life changer!”
“THERE is a God! It passed! The Bush tax cuts have been extended two years for the upper bracketeers, of which I am a proud member, thank you very much.” Larry David takes to the NYT opinion pages to say…
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Atheism By Numbers
“So next time someone tells me they believe in God, I’ll say ‘Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?…’ If they say ‘Just God. I only believe in the one God,’ I’ll point out that…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
It’s a day for (hopefully productive) outrage. The FCC is meeting today to discuss net neutrality regulations. If you use the Internet, you should probably be paying attention. Speaking of free speech, Apple removed the Wikileaks app from its App…
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Can Creative Writing Help Students Become More Successful?
Mother Jones is doing an ongoing education reporting series from Mission High School in San Francisco. This week’s article asks, “Does Creative Writing Help Kids Succeed?” Tough question to answer. I think creative writing can help kids, but like the…
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Five Mini-Interviews from The Rumpus
We at The Rumpus get bored with reading the same old interviews with the same old people. So, every now and again we like to publish “mini-interviews,” our readers talking with people we wouldn’t normally get to learn about. We like…
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Leaky Diplomacy
The river of diplomatic correspondence gushing forth from WikiLeaks is only the most recent incident in a long history of leaky diplomacy that began with the American Revolution. You might even say that the American Revolution was won with the…
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Made in Palestine
We’ve already talked about Palestine once this week, but this is pretty awesome: Made In Palestine, an art exhibition curated by the peerless James Harithas, which graced Houston in the first half of the decade. From the preface: