a tide of filth…
From The New York Times
Ricky Bess spends eight hours a day in front of a computer near Orlando, Fla., viewing some of the worst depravities harbored on the Internet. He has seen photographs of graphic gang killings, animal abuse and twisted forms of pornography. One recent sighting was a photo of two teenage [...]
renegade
You, would no doubt, have read about Julian Assange and the extraordinary work he is doing with Wikileaks. This interview on TED illustrates the methods he uses, the dangers he faces and the impact of the website on world events. It is all in all, a wonderful illustration of the corrosive power of truth on [...]
a two course special
I offer you the above video, without explanation, but merely as a further tiny piece of the crazy paving that we now call culture. But to countermand the exotic pull of this elegant trash, I also offer a video of two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, Foucault and Chomsky, debating, how [...]
dirty
mashed up awesome
Look at this fucking hipster
Its self explanatory and absolutely necessary. Look at this fucking hipster delivers just what it promises
patriots
For those of you following the healthcare debate going on in the U.S, this “insiders’ report from Yasha Levine at The Exiled online will give you a sense of the special flavor of intellectualism that is driving the Republican argument.
The Exiled Online
Inside, the demographic was even more skewed towards the white and the [...]
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smugly small
I enjoyed this article, despite the insufferable sense of smug that wafted through its lofty conceits…
By David Scharfenberg from the Boston Globe
WE MOVED to San Francisco and Brooklyn and Mission Hill. We jumped from job to job. Put off marriage. Never bought a place. And we never heard the end of it. We were drifters, [...]
happy families
Fascinating story from Newsweek
Several pairs of eyes follow the girl as she pedals around the playground in an affluent suburb of Baltimore. But it isn’t the redheaded fourth grader who seems to have moms and dads of the jungle gym nervous on this recent Saturday morning. It’s the African-American man—six feet tall, bearded and wearing [...]