Ingmar Bergman, possibly the greatest filmmaker of all time, died on Monday, 30 July 2007, at the age of 89. It would be difficult to exaggerate the contribution he made to cinema. During the 1960s and 1970s, when he was at his peak, his creative fecundity was simply incredible, both in quality and [...]
For whatever reason, there is a faction of the right wing that is positively in love with the idea that “we” (white America and whatever other white people, preferably English-speaking, choose to side with us) are involved in a war to the death with all Arabs and Muslims. Look at how Crazy Pammy waxes [...]
A 22-year-old Ohio IT intern says he’s being made out to be the “scapegoat” in a case of 800,000 stolen Social Security numbers.
The problem started with the fact that the “offsite” backup tapes usually spent the night in somebody’s car:
A 22-year-old intern said today he’s the “scapegoat” for the loss of over 800,000 social security [...]
The Digital Dada Library Collection at the University of Iowa is amazing. You can download a huge number of Dada periodicals, books, pamphlets, etc. (in PDF format). Classics such as Tristan Tzara’s Vingt-cinq poèmes, with illustrations by Jean Arp (1918); Kurt Schwitters’ Anna Blume: Dichtungen (1919); Richard Huelsenbeck’s En avant Dada [...]
Remember the proposed Arabic-language school that had Crazy Pammy so worked up? It’s still a big deal to her, and to others as well. There’s a blog dedicated to stopping the school (“Stop The Madrassa” at Blogspot), and the wingnutty New York Sun has a whole collection of articles on the subject.
The school’s [...]
Two Wisconsin inmates got into a jailhouse brawl over Woody Allen and his relationship with Soon-Yi:
[T]he fight began about 5:30 p.m. July 9 during mealtime when James F. Lala, 31, of Grafton asked fellow inmate Corey T. Wilson, 36, of Menomonee Falls what he thought of Allen’s marriage in 1997 to Sun Yi [sic] Previn, [...]
One of Mitt Romney’s national finance co-chairs, Mel Sembler, was the founder of a drug/alcohol-recovery “boot camp” for teens called Straight Inc., where teens were “subjected to unusual punishment, infliction of pain, humiliation, intimidation, ridicule, coercion, threats, mental abuse… and interference with daily living functions such as eating, sleeping and toileting,” according to the LA [...]
Once again, Michael “Darth” Savage has managed to say the dumbest thing ever:
[Al Sharpton] and the other wonderful, distinguished Reverend, Jesse High Jackson, demanded the hide of Imus. Well, they lynched him. They lynched Imus, as far as I’m concerned. [...] Now, how do you move up if you’re a talentless demagogue? What you do [...]
I was disappointed, overall, with DeLillo’s Falling Man. I think Andrew O’Hagan nailed it in his NYRB review:
DeLillo the novelist prepared us for September 11, but he did not prepare himself for how such an episode might, in the way of denouements, instantly fly beyond the reach of his own powers. In a moment, [...]
Isn’t that cute, readers? That’s Mitt Romney playfully posing with some mouth-breathing troglodyte and her NO TO OBAMA OSAMA AND CHELSEA’S MOMA (sic) sign, down in South Carolina.
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