“It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.”*

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*- Jean-Luc Godard above: "Just What Is It that Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?" (1956) by Richard Hamilton INFO:...

Music Is My Mistress (new blog)

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INFO: http://music-is-my-mistress.blogspot.com/

Jack Smith

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INFO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(film_director) http://swedenburg.blogspot.com/2010/07/jack-smiths-orientalism-warning-photos....

"Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant."*

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*- J.G. Ballard (above: paintings by Thomas Downing, Kenneth Nolan)

The Whole Twentieth Century Was A Mistake

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"I am expensive. I am subsidized by all the poor people in the world. I dress as though I were a gift to unwrap. I am a rich Ameri...

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."*

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* - Eleanor Roosevelt

The World Is Getting Smaller

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Mark Dinning

Zan Yu said, "Once there are so many people, what should be done?"... *

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* ... "Enrich them," said the Master. "Once they are enriched, what next?" "Educate them." - Confucius (c. 55...

John Law & the Mississippi Bubble

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John Law (1671-1729) was a a Scottish economist (and convicted murderer) who pioneered the use of paper money when, after moving to France,...

The Corporate States of America

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• In the Corporate States of America, health care "reform" consists of gutting all efforts to put real competition back into monop...

Unequal Union

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"Economists long ago tried to justify the vast inequalities that seemed so troubling in the mid-19th century—inequalities that are but ...

The "Media"

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"Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic."*

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... "Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, ...

Pledge Of Allegiance

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• Exxon Mobil 's 2009 profits totaled $19 billion, yet according to its SEC filings, the company received a $156 million rebate from the...

Willing Prisoners

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Joe Bageant

"Them that don't know don't know they don't know."*

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"If you hang out much with thinking people, conversation eventually turns to the serious political and cultural questions of our times....

Defenders of the Decline

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"The struggle for human rights is a continuum with no beginning and no end. I don’t think there’s any such thing as “postracism.” The m...

Serf City Here We Come*

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"Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still peasants as...

Emale

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"In Antiquity, people sought moderation because they did not have it. In the Middle Ages, they sought logic because they did not have i...

Contact

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2001: A Space Odyssey, (1968)

The Last Act

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"Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever...

Little People In Your Ears

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"Just as there won’t be a clear distinction between nonbiological and biological intelligence, there won’t be a clear distinction betwe...
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Meet the new boss; Same as the old boss

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The Who

Won't Get Fooled Again(?)*

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