Tag Archives: Dov Charney

treading where angels never were

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Dave

Will the messianic era ever reach fruition, or as the hard-core Secularists maintain, Hitchens style, that this absurdity is like pissing in the wind.There are a lot of empty spaces to fill in, and perhaps we are just not seeing … Continue reading →

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every good child deserves favor

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Dave

There were almost no flickers of sensitivity to the horror. The callous behavior of parents and adults to infants in seventeenth-century England and eighteenth-century France is almost too impossible to appear credible. The women of the poor suckled for a … Continue reading →

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fear of a children’s planet: the customer is kid

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Dave

Whats always fascinating, often in equal measure, is disturbing. This is particularly so with the use of children in advertising, in art, and in the broader context. At one end of this seamy world, is the Charlie Sheen archetype, that … Continue reading →

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UNTHINKING WITH THE SUBTERRANEANS: “WE DIG IT ALL”

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Dave

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in … Continue reading →