Beauty Blogosphere 9.21.12
...whether the company inappropriately contacted analysts during the bribery investigation, so the heat is still very much on Avon—not that that matters to the financial world, which saw a 2%...
Writing a bodaboda to Rideavism
...in desperate need of multi-lane roads—that is, if it is to operate efficiently—and at the present time, it lacks them. (Though China is coming!) As a result, you can spend...
#JustineHasLanded
...common (as one can get malaria by simply being in an area where infected mosquitoes are likely to bite you). Which is the mis-statement that the “Just kidding. I’m white!”...
#RhodesWar: Makunyiwe Macala
...how many ways and how swiftly an institution moves to protect a violent man from a bit of a reputation pickle. Later, you will be protesting with other students who...
Astral Projections
...contested on earth—gloriously stuck into the moon’s surface. It’s probably the closest I’ve ever come to what Americans were possibly feeling on that day 1969! Talk a bit about this...
Why You Gotta Be So Sensitive?
...“dermatitis” bit: there’s irritant dermatitis, in which a product makes your skin itch or redden or blister for no apparent reason, and allergic dermatitis, in which your body has an...
London, Underground
...survived. Londoners knuckle down. We don’t grumble. We get on with things. We keep calm - as that resurrected bit of defunct military propaganda now plastering tote bags, tourist tat...
Opening the Gate
...England was a little bit like that. We need to go back. We need to go back. And then I came back to Côte d’Ivoire, and my writing has changed....
Trailing after Tarzan
...only functions to excuse and obfuscate what remains as an underlying but still effectively felt message. That the movie is more complicated, more nuanced, more multi-valenced, even more contradictory and...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 25
...you might accept the need for some guidance but question taking it from me. That is a fair point—more than fair. I have given quite a bit of bad advice...
The Fog of More
...cultural libertarians of the Wired set and the congressional class of Newt Gingrich’s Republican Revolution. The techno-libertarian faith effectively repealed the skepticism of technology beyond human comprehension and control engendered...
Loving the Alien
...the right word here—…want, in short, to liberate themselves.” Attalian composition seems like a mishmash of different philosophical concepts: there’s a little bit of Herbert Marcuse’s idea of “narcissistic” eros...
An Interview with George Scialabba
...usually provided by strong families and local communities. For many reasons – economic development, geographical mobility, religious tolerance, the rise of nation-states, the emancipation of women – those bonds have...
This Sex Which Is Not Two
...you can begin to see what the components of it are. A dynamic systems approach always has to be developmental and longitudinal. A cross-sectional bit of data is just the...
Dragged Down by the Stone
...may prove difficult to accept, it represents the only way for the sheep to effect change. Messianic deliverance in the world of "Sheep" comes not from above or without but...
"Venice drowning! Venice drowning! Venice drowning!"
...bad name, we build a crap bell tower and splash on a bit of gilt and put it on list of the Top Sights You Have to See Before You...