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when doing harm is a great biz

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) one of the things that never ceases to amaze me is the constant recall of dangerous and untested products from our market place. we all grew up with a more beneficial government and now live … Continue reading

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fear of a black planet… core values

Thats the title of the advertisement. Its part of the journeys campaign by Louis Vuitton, a real marketing powerhouse. The critique is that this is white patriarchy using the abject poverty of Uganda as a pretext to hawk bling luxury … Continue reading

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HORSE OPERA: TIME TO CIRCLE THE WAGONS?

“With the stakes raised so high, the heroes of such dramas are indeed often superheroic, near divinities. One man can outduel five others in a shoot-out (as in the Achilles and Patroclus ending of Unforgiven [dir. Clint Eastwood, 1992] or the final gunfight … Continue reading

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MARCUSE : POURING SALT ONTO SACCHARINE NOTIONS

Some people call a lie told for a great and good purpose a “noble lie.” Our government engages in a noble lie, according to these people, when it lies to us for our own good. Let us suppose, for the … Continue reading

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HOLD ME MY DADDY SO I CAN LIFT YOU UP

” Hold me my daddy, I never felt lower than dirt on the floor. I say hold me my daddy, I never felt like crying oceans before. If this means war, why are we in it? Might’ve fired off a … Continue reading

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NATIVE INTELLIGENCE

The concept of the Manifest Destiny has acquired a variety of meanings over the years, and its inherent ambiguity has been part of its power. ”Manifest Destiny was always a general notion rather than a specific policy. The term combined a … Continue reading

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OH HOW THEY WIGGLE AND SQUIRM

Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, Guess I’ll go eat worms, Long, thin, slimy ones; Short, fat, juicy ones, Itsy, bitsy, fuzzy wuzzy worms. Early birds aren’t the only creatures who get the worms. Land planarians, otherwise known as flat … Continue reading

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KILL THE DEVIL WITH PROBABILITY THEORY

When the truth is found to be lies/ and all the joy within you dies ( Somebody to Love, Jefferson Airplane ) The opening scene in A Serious Man is fictional folkloric legend where an elder man, believed to be … Continue reading

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BETWEEN THE NAVEL AND THE KNEES

Charlie Chaplin represented a vision of laughter, of comedy, that tore away at the veil, a social burka fitted over its explosive and unpredictable composition.A contrast of fast nickelodeons and the slow dimes of higher culture. He enabled a reconnection … Continue reading

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MOZARTIANS AND THE SECRET OF THEIR ALLOY

It cannot be denied that the verbal arts, the drama, the novel and a great part of poetry have always fed on conflict, and that they have reached their greatest heights when the conflict was unresolvable except by a tragic … Continue reading

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