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This Will End Badly
I’m a union member and a union supporter, but this is not good at all. The Los Angeles Police Union has a $30 million investment in the group that just bought the San Diego Union-Tribune. (We can discuss the wisdom…
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Lucy Corin: A Poem I Love
Frank O’Hara’s “Morning” I can read, as I just did, stuffing my face with a disgusting greasy croissant, and I am still totally immersed in the world of this poem which resists weeping so desperately the whole thing feels like…
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How 1984 Killed George Orwell
George Orwell, who died at the age of 46, was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, and arguably, given the way the Bush administration adopted many of Big Brother’s tactics, the twenty-first as well. A google…
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Evan Roth Vs. Everybody
The world of copyright law is not a place where one finds much in the way of bright-lines or simple dichotomies. Or even heroes. So it shouldn’t be surprising when people who set themselves up as defenders of concepts like…
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Brian’s Saturday Morning Links
How y’all are? I don’t know why I’m channeling Justin Wilson this morning, but bear with me and we’ll get through this. Verizon has some local cops in Ohio upset after refusing to turn on a 62 year old man’s…
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An Oral History of Myself #4: Aaron
In 2005 I began interviewing people I grew up with. Because I left home at thirteen and spent four years in group homes, my social network was significantly wider than most people of that age. What’s most interesting about these…
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Morning Coffee
Creepy twine sculptures and potato portraits. Happy memorial day weekend. Minimalist architectural pornography. House of Diffusion. If we here at the Morning Coffee were a single issue voter, that issue would probably be urban planning/public transportation. Which is why we…
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The Rumpus Book Blog Roundup
Sometimes, the Rumpus makes fun of the book blogs, especially when they write about whether William Shatner would beat James T. Kirk in a fight to the death. But this week is different. This week, the blogs are acting like…
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THE CHENEY DOCTRINE
I’m sick of torture. And the fact that we’re one of the countries way up there on the J.D. Powers annual “torture reliability” list makes me unwell as well. As does talking AROUND torture. What this country needs is an…
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Morning Coffee
From one our personal favorite blogs: questions young people ask. Images from the 1973 Iranian children’s book, The Story of a Silkworm. Speaking of whimsy, check out this Finish environmental art. Taking participatory art to something of a logical extreme,…
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Sgt. Leonard Matlovich’s Grave
I believe this to be the saddest headstone I have ever seen (click the image to enlarge). It belongs to Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich (1943-1988), a Vietnam War veteran, recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star, and advocate…