McClatchy is reporting that liberal advocacy groups are going after the lead plaintiff in the Ricci case, who is expected to be called to testify at this week’s confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee Sonya Sotomayor: On Friday, citing in an e-mail “Frank Ricci’s troubled and litigious work history,” the liberal advocacy group People forContinue reading “The Business End of Empathy”
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Quantitative Sleazing
From Bloomberg, Johnathan Weil reports a US prosecutor says a stolen Goldman Sachs computer program capable of manipulating global markets may fall into the wrong hands (wrong being other than the world’s most powerful investment bank). About the first of this month Goldman notified authorities that former employee Sergey Aleynikov, not content with post-its andContinue reading “Quantitative Sleazing”
Beck, Hell Yes Autechre, Second Bad Vibe Looks like one of the performers from the Beck video. Lemon Jelly, Space Walk Voice sample: radio transmission of astronaut Alan Bean describing the sunrise during a space walk, Skylab 3 mission, July 1973 Zero Gs and I feel fine Note how sampling works as metaphor.
Closed for reinvention. Back soon. update III:Girlfriend: “You come home, you order out food…and then you play those stupid Tito Puente albums until 2 in the morning!”Guy:“Tito Puente is gonna be dead, and you’ll say: ‘Oh, I’ve been listening to him for years. He’s fabulous.’ “–Stripesupdate II: be sure to check out the beehive toContinue reading
Condescension and Credulity
No matter with what skill the great manage to seem other than they are, they cannot conceal their malignity.—Jean de la Bruyere, Characters That implicit credulity is the mark of a feeble mind will not be disputed.—Sir William Hamilton After a brief, nominal flirtation with the ideal of objectivity the political press is poised toContinue reading “Condescension and Credulity”
Voices, Violence and Vocations
Impelled by religious zeal, a man commits an act of terrorist murder, targeting an individual he deems responsible for the slaughter of innocents. The charge follows: through the use of extreme language activist organizations, news outlets–the very opinions and beliefs they espouse–provoked the violence. By implication (or direct inference) these beliefs are discredited not byContinue reading “Voices, Violence and Vocations”
Koko Taylor (1928-2009), Wang Dang Doodle Jimmy Dale Gilmore Trio, The Mobile Line “It’s a league game, Smokey.” The Avalanches, Frontier Psychiatrist“That boy needs therapy!” Mint Royale, Show Me Townes Van Zandt, Waiting Around to Die, from the film Heartworn Highways
Shill.He.Is
The single most distressing result of Barack Obama’s election is not the looting of your grandchildren’s economic prospects to pay for the new administration’s Great Lurch Forward into insolvency. It isn’t the accompanying loss of liberty. Nor is it the mass decampment of “anti-war” leftists now silent or openly supporting the escalation of the warContinue reading “Shill.He.Is”
In my last post I said some harsh things about the American film industry. Then, this appears: Film Studio Mulls “Coyote Ugly” sequel. Coincidence? I think not.
Deconstructing Eric, or, Little by Little
Abraham Lincoln once said that “If you’re a racist, I will attack you with the North,” and these are the principles I carry with me in the workplace.–Michael Scott Our Attorney General is right. We are a nation of cowards, fearing an honest discussion of race. But, unless he’s breaking utterly with rigorously observed convention,Continue reading “Deconstructing Eric, or, Little by Little”
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