Rapture, Rainbows and Reproduction
...lamp to light the universe, let him see the earth as a mere speck compared to the vast orbit described by this star, and let him marvel at finding this...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.25.12
...it's being treated as something with potential instead of something already available. The singularity just may be cosmetized. Bad girls go everywhere: xoJane.com beauty editor Cat Marnell in a Vice...
Yasssss, Kween!
...own face. He describes himself as a “Holy Ghost bowlegged ethnic power bottom with a sensible community college AA in HPV, weaving and gay wizardry #lonelyoldbottom #ihavenolife.” But She Has...
Un(der)known Writers: Gary Fisher
...Excerpted and submitted by Zoe Sharpe. Thanks Zoe! If you have excerpts from writers you think are criminally un(der)known and we should highlight, you can send them to [email protected]...
Eminent Domain
...the bottom to provide the same thing. Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — domain suffixes like .com, .net, or .org — are available to anyone. The Internet has routinely been described...
Jihad Against Jihad Against Jihad
...end of a hand-held transceiver.6 Patrol two to center, the voice repeats. Come in. I’m here, on the spot…Moulay Youssef, Boulevard Moulay Youssef. Come in. No one answers him. After...
Creative Tyranny
...other similar ones with an admirable clarity that invites debate. In these pieces, Davis, a Marxist art critic and executive editor of Artinfo.com, shows little overt interest in policing the...
Their Justice Shall Be Our Justice: A Dialogue on the ICC Witness Project
...instead. 4. THAT I never expected those I moved against to come into power. 5. THAT both bribery and threats are effective tools to buy a witness. 6. THAT if...
Sunday Reading
...Labor, and the Sharing Economy Salon.com Recognizes Union Belabored Podcast #82: Labor Rising in New Media (audio) Google Express Workers May Unionize The Future of Work in the Uber Economy...
Taming the Inexplicable
...story fully, it suggests the island is one big VR experience commissioned by a federation of different countries to increase worker creativity and efficiency. A hidden audio log from this...
You and Mark Aren't Friends
...company, a PR construct, just like Andy Sparks. But the effacing work that goes into that, well, that is something. There is another Mark Zuckerberg out there who must be...
The Future of Streaming Services May Be In The Past
...services were never really a revolutionary tech product at all? What if the major labels really needed everybody to think that for a little bit because they owned equity in...
Best in Show
...little vixens, unless we’re heifers or, well, dogs—suddenly it doesn’t seem terrifically far-fetched to wonder if there’s a bit of relief in establishing oneself as the mistress of another who...
Snake Plissken's Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
...up thing is the thought that someone probably did. My comments regarding the auto-betrayal of the human remain.) If you were my friend or even a stranger, who spotted me...
St. Paul (A Screenplay)
...most zealous of the most zealous promoters of the traditions?’ ‘And aren’t the traditions for him authority and hate, racism and discrimination?’ Bit by bit the murmurings of the assembly...
Teaching While Black
...group of exceptionally sharp students, we were all feeling a bit playful. Students don’t tease me very often, so I was tickled and amused by the exchange between a few...