Gold Star, Brown Family
...this time by the VC-funded website Vocativ. In it, Khan criticized Trump’s profound intolerance of Muslims. Clinton’s team then recorded a video just days later wherein Clinton called Captain Khan...
Sunday Reading
...bombing of Japan" "State officials ordered the photos removed from a website operated by the University of Texas at Austin." "three ambulances failed to find the Olympic velodrome because their...
Hate Sinks
...as part of my research on ideas of civility and changes in the public sphere), not us, who combs the threads of an Australian broadcaster’s website and social-media pages for...
The Fight and the Whale
...to his collaboration with Metallica for Lulu — an album that has, thus far, been universally panned by critics. Scharpling himself reviewed Lulu track by track at the LowTimes website,...
In Praise of Fake Reviews
...Decency Act protects website owners from being responsible for user-provided content on their sites, even when that content is the source of profit. The protection extends to Yelp, as one...
Paris/Maidan
Two Letters on the Uprising in France
Fun Will Find a Way
...according to the band's now defunct website, "Pablo represents an honest, real, down to earth individual; and Cruise depicts his fun loving and easy going attitude towards life." The band...
What Is the New Inquiry?
As before, always.
Call Volume
A review of Jamie Woodcock’s Working the Phones
Pics and It Didn't Happen
...number of people on a popular website, temporary photographs are taken specifically for and shared with one other person or a small group of people. The meaning of the photo...
Fail Worse
...Samuel Beckett photographed by Richard Avedon, 1979 Ranked 104th in the list of the most highlighted passages on Amazon's Kindle website is a short clipping from The 4-Hour...
One Narrative Fits All
...beautiful to describe themselves? Isn't that problematic? You can find that statistic right on the Real Beauty Campaign’s website—preceded by a statistic about how 72% of girls "feel tremendous pressure...
Voyeur Reality
Virtual Reality satisfies Western voyeurism without consequence. It will not blunt the global fervor to hinder the movement of bodies.
Beauty Blogosphere 9.28.12
...Markwins International. Markwins International is not as racy as it seems despite having an "adult" tab on its website; it's only there to distinguish it from its plethora of youth...
This Week in Art Crime
...In 2011, Kaphar began searching for his father’s prison records. When he visited a website containing photographs of people who have recently been arrested, he found dozens of...
Search for a Method
...his own study to Spencer Ackerman, then of FireDogLake, a left-libertarian website, and the Washington Independent. Ackerman rather breathlessly reported that the study had been “peer reviewed.” But this was...