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Ishtar posted Abu Ghraib and the ambiguity of the photographic image | Mar 24, 2008
Full text from the New Yorker, March 24, 08.Also: very interesting conversation between the two. Exposure The woman behind the camera at Abu Ghraib. by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris All that the soldiers of the 372nd Military Police Company, a Reserve unit out of Cresaptown, Maryland, knew...
Ryverwulf posted There and Back Again The... | Feb 22, 2008
There and Back Again The soul of the commuter. by Nick Paumgarten from the New Yorker (April 16, 2007 ) Last year, Midas, the muffler company, in honor of its fiftieth anniversary, gave an award for America’s longest commute to an engineer at Cisco Systems, in California, who travels three hundred...
Sam posted Puppy Dogs, Fluffy Kittens, Happy Smiles, and Pretty Rainbows | Feb 13, 2008
Daily Afffirmations: Courtesy of Beckett, Shakespeare, Camus, Faulkner, the Greeks, Monty Python, Koheleth, and yours truly... Birth was the death of him. --Samuel Beckett Do I believe in God? But of course. The undeniable evidence of his insanity, his apathy, his impotence, his malevolence, and his...
bonjourfeuilles posted Mad About You Baby . . . | Feb 18, 2008
2.18.08 I’m in kind of an odd mood. Today started off badly and at the time, it felt like a bad omen for the week. Ok, it’s slightly melodramatic to say that it started off badly because the “it” to which I am referring is simply my breakfast. As I have recently mentioned, I have a banana...
