February 2009
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“Fairey has said that the real message behind his work is “Question everything.”...”
– Peter Schjedahl delivers a terse take-down of Shepherd Fairey’s work (the man, as if it needed to be said, behind the iconic Obama ‘HOPE’ poster). I appreciate the thesis that if it weren’t for the faux-agitprop formlessness of Fairey’s style, that poster...
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WatchThe Crisis of Credit Visualized
It’s everywhere, but I’m linking because the middle section is particularly helpful: from the basics of CDOs and why sub-prime mortgages seemed alright. Also, INFOGRAPHICS!!
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Madam Senator,
Though the political slate - particularly for California - is already overcrowded, I would like to register my vigorous endorsement of the dispassionate but unshrinking reasoning in a piece in yesterday’s New York Times, ‘To Investigate or Not: Four Ways to Look Back at Bush.’
As a steadfast civil libertarian, I believe that our new president cannot fully accomplish his goal of...
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On prescience
Reading Reinhold Niebuhr’s Moral Man and Immoral Society, I was impressed by how well America’s preeminent theologian foretold something like 2003 from 1933. To wit,
[Modern men of power] may still engage in social conflict for the satisfaction of their pride and vanity provided they can compound their personal ambitions with, and hallow them by, the ambitions of their group, and the...
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Let the packing begin. →
Headed to Europe and North Africa for the summer, it’s as good a time as any to start strategizing.
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The Little Gate to God
As he closed his powerhouse lecture on Walter Rauschenbusch at Union Theological Seminary last night, Gary Dorrien quoted at length from a poem written in the spring of 1918 by the eminent theologian and founder of the Social Gospel movement, as Rauschenbusch neared a premature death from cancer.
The poem caught my ear, but every mention I’ve found on the internet seems to have selected a...
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WatchSooooo NSFW: Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work
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WatchTour: First Church Somerville’s new site!