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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
Some Tea Party activists are pushing back on the idea that they have anything in common with Occupy Wall Street. I’ll give them this much–the Tea Party is much better at coming up with sexually explicit nicknames for themselves. Oakland’s…
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Science Saturday
A planet is born, and the baby pictures are pretty cool. If you use a webmail system, you don’t have privacy from the authorities because the law governing email is 25 years old. You try looking at the Cyclops Shark…
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Saturday Morning Links
I’m missing a pair of cozy pants. Anyone seen them? A new census brief discusses poverty in the US, and if you look at the map in the actual report, you’ll notice a fairly stark divide. Is seafood from the…
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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
J Smooth of Ill Doctrine breaks down the big thing Occupy Wall Street is doing–identifying the ringers in the 3-card monte game. Seems like the efforts to demonize Occupy Wall Street are, for the moment, failing. So is the attempt…
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The Lobby: An Interview with Andrew
For the past two years, I have worked as a desk clerk at a motel in Austin. During the busiest shift of the week, Friday evenings, my shift overlaps with my co-worker, Andrew’s. Andrew is easily one of the most…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Perhaps you’d like to see from whence your commercial space flights will be taking off. 1) There is such a thing as “mountain beavers“. 2) They used to eat lava. Also, let’s talk about early American mastodon hunting. Things Magazine…
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Laughter Against the Machine Occupies Wall Steet
Laughter Against The Machine is putting on a free show this Friday, October 21st (tomorrow!) in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. If you’re in New York, get your laughter on at The Epifaneo (near Zuccotti Park) from 9-11 pm. Plus,…
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On Our Public Privacy
In this Smart Set piece, Stefany Anne Golberg contemplates the “public commodification of privacy,” finding a precursor to our own tendencies in the poet Charles Baudelaire’s navigation of 19th century urban life. “But the illusion of public privacy is one…
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The Last Book of Poetry I Loved: Revolver by Robyn Schiff
How do we know what we know ’til we learn what we’ve learned? Once upon a time I fashioned myself to be one of those thinkers who, as I sophomorically put it, “find the deep in the superficial.” When I…
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Ilya Kaminsky Interview
In anticipation of the 2011 Poets Forum (which kicks off today in NYC), the Academy of American Poets has been conducting a “6 Poets, 6 Questions” interview series over at Bomblog. Yesterday’s conversation featured Ilya Kaminsky. “I write in lines.…
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Today In American Things To Fix
Those of us with life-long bridge phobias probably wish we could un-see this news. According to yesterday’s “Transportation for America” report, one in nine bridges in the U.S. are “structurally deficient,” which means that “each day the volume of travelers…
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“The Great Schism”
This Ta-Nehesi Coates Atlantic piece takes a closer look at what caused the rift between abolitionists and suffragists, despite their many shared values. “I think one way of looking at this — among many others — is to not look at the…