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Nadine Gordimer: After the Revolution
I just heard the news this morning, on my way to the Farmer's Market. I just started reading her this year after hearing this interview on the BBC and reading several other articles related to the release of No Time Like the PresentRead more... ) -
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi 1924-2014
Reb Zalman died today. I met him earlier this year, quite by chance. To see him --- to hear him teach and sing --- was to feel the heart opening. I thought the moment was important enough to note here. How strange to login and find my last post (private) was about him. I feel like I've been trying to find the words for the experience all year ( Read more... ) -
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This kind of satire is getting less relevant to me as I get older, but it's still funny. What do people get as second marriage gifts, I wonder?
http://thehairpin.com/2013/11/now-that-im-married-i-only-use-crystal#more -
Banksy NYC
I'm loving the coverage of Banksy in NYC. It almost makes me miss living there. This has probably been my favorite story, a tagger attacked one of the paintings, he was quickly subdued and the neighborhood restored the painting and posted a guard:http:// -
Consumer protections & class action law suits.
Consumer protections & class action law suits.
I wonder if this shift is related to tobacco.http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/07/ -
Isao Hashimoto's visualization of the nuclear detonations between 1945-1998
Today the BP posted Isao Hashimoto's visualization of the nuclear detonations between 1945-1998 with the caption, "The World Has Already Ended." It actually illustrates one of his pet points, that we are already living in what is essentially a post-apocalyptic landscape. Certainly one that has been irrevocably altered by the presence of humans ( Read more... )
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