I developed my first rule of art while studying a purported work of art on display at the University of South Florida. The work consisted of a beat to hell La-Z-boy style recliner. It was cloth covered, or once was. The cloth was trashed, at least one spring was sticking out. The thing was probably [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2008 by pwyll
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A fine distinction or a useful conceptual category is something to be treasured. Some examples.
One night I was up with my daughter, then only a few months old, waiting for her to fall asleep. She was in my lap, I was channel surfing for something we could both tolerate. We briefly paused on professional wrestling. [...]
Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by pwyll
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I recently argued that the national media has been deliberately ignoring the hideous Christian-Newsom murders because the victims were white and the suspected murderers are black. I am far from alone in believing this, and the story is creeping into the papers. John Leo covers it today in the New York Post.
Ted Diadiun, writing [...]
Posted on May 22nd, 2007 by pwyll
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I had a few other things I wanted to post, but I’m going to hold off on them, and consider instead a grotesque murder and the national media’s refusal to report it.
The most visible instrument of media bias is the spotlight glare of national attention, as we saw in the Duke non-rape case. [...]
Posted on May 16th, 2007 by pwyll
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It ok, she’s a Republican.
Posted on May 10th, 2007 by pwyll
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Via the TimesOnline:
HAVING large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a 4×4 car and failing to reuse plastic bags, according to a report to be published tomorrow by a green think tank.
The paper by the Optimum Population Trust (OPT) will say that if [...]
Posted on May 6th, 2007 by pwyll
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