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tattoos: the numbers don’t add up

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Dave

Honouring the survivors of Nazi death camps by emulating their tattoos? ( see link at end)…Holocaust survivors are disappearing and, with them, the memory of what they went through. But some of their children and grandchildren have found a way to … Continue reading →

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radical chic: return of the ekosians

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Dave

Truth to power. A kind of truth to power. Neo-Nazi? Patriot? Freedom fighter? Misguided genius? Eccentric gadfly and publicity hound?  Clearly inscrutable, but all part of the mystery of radical Jewish culture, the people, the remnant of the remnant as … Continue reading →

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think different: aren’t i wonderful?

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Dave

His “reality distorted field.” A ruthless, obsessive, perfectionist nature. A productive narcissist bordering on the psychopathic? All the hallmarks of the admired American business leader. The good, the bad and the ugly. The closed ecosystem which will likely permit Android … Continue reading →

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decoys of perception: poetry after …..

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Dave

Could poetry be written after Auschwitz? Theodor Adorno’s famous assertion did not necessarily mean that no poetry could be created about the holocaust. Its a touchy grey zone; a metaphorical voyage of the damned where like Odysseus you tie yourself … Continue reading →

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