From CNN’s Too broke to be your maid of honor: “The TV no longer sits on a moving box, but she’s still using filing cabinets as end tables. Desiree Jacobsen graduated from college years ago, so why does her apartment resemble a dorm room? It’s hard to save for the finer things when you’ve had [...]
From Please God, deliver us from the banality of evil: “Fed a steady diet of carefully crafted agitprop from cradle to grave, many of us zealously pursue the American Dream of suburban utopias bordered by white picket fences. Utterly oblivious and indifferent to the staggering cost we impose upon the rest of the world, we [...]
From The Huffington Post: “Fox News’ ratings…are down since August of last year. Like, way down. Like down 28 percent in primetime among all viewers, down 20 percent in primetime in the “money demo” (viewers aged 25-54) and down 7 percent in daytime viewership overall.” Could it be that our national nightmare may soon be [...]
Dave, over at This Is Not News, is taking a couple of political science seminars this semester, and it has him asking, when it comes to democracy, can people handle the power? I think it is a very important question that any struggling democracy (such as ours) has to ask itself every once in a [...]
Over on Ain’t I A Woman, in a post entitled, “How do we hear certain voices?,” Dawn’s started an interesting discussion about the concept of minority shelving in bookstores — you know, the whole “Gay/Lesbian Literature” and “African-American Literature” thing (actually, the post is about the more abstract concept of “categorization,” but she gets [...]
What a sad week, not only for the participants in all the different forms of the civil rights movement, but for everyone who has ever realized that the world isn’t quite right yet, and hoped to do something about it.
On January 31, Wendy Wasserstein died from complications of lymphoma at the age of 55. Wasserstein [...]
The NY Times is reporting that Steve Jobs may be selling Pixar to Disney for $6.8 billion, a majority of stock, and a directorship at Disney. This would probably be the first step to Jobs eventually becoming CEO of Disney. Not sure how I feel about that. On one side, it might be the closest [...]
Paul Graham, whose essays I always enjoy, has an interesting article entitled, “How to do what you love.” I especially like the following, since it seems to fit perfectly with some conversations I’ve had over the last four years: “I remember vividly when an older friend who was majoring in English in college was asked [...]
For the second time in as many albums, Blues Traveler has disappointed me. It’s kind of sad, because these guys, even more than Phish or the Grateful Dead, were my first real musical love (well, my first “mature” musical love — I refuse to count Bon Jovi). I remember the first time I heard them. [...]
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics) by Annie Dillard
Kyle has read 21 books in the last 12 months.
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