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%...
The "Sharing" Economy
...chief example) instead of commodities, and preach how business can “reimagine the larger system” of how they market products to integrate them more deeply into the social life of consumers....
The Nuclear National Family
The Fukushima disaster exposed fissures in Japanese society that its familial politics tries to paper over
"Spaces where identity stutters and goes silent”
...quite a bit of regret for everything I didn’t discuss enough, or didn’t discuss at all. Silence is actually a really big factor in the novel--and it’s only here in...
Boy 2 Man
...conflict that splits Mason and Olivia, but when he reenters his children’s lives, Mason is a kind, empathetic, and -- if a bit flighty -- overall nurturing presence. A vastly...
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 The techno-libertarian faith effectively repealed the skepticism of technology beyond human comprehension and control engendered...
Sewing Dissent
...as this behavior was, it was wholly consistent with respect for individual rights. Every bit as much citizens of the young republic as their parents, American children found themselves free...
1983 - 1962
...world a bit while finishing this up, I'll share excerpts for those interested. For those not, sorry - things more likely to inspire John Mayer trolls will return shortly, as...
The Journalist and the Suicide
...of daily veteran suicides in 1999 was 20. Since then, it has never come up shy of 17. If anything, the new numbers show improvement over 1999, when veteran suicides...
The Well-Heeled Life: Shoes, Ability, and Fear [Guest Post]
...thing we can’t have, the thing we can’t do, is possible; we crave a bit of magic. I am and was no different. Growing up as a black disabled woman...
Coming to My Senses
...and an Unlikely Bride by Alyssa Harad. Reprinted by arrangement with Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, A Penguin Random House Company. Copyright © Alyssa Harad, 2012....
Vinyl re-enchantment
...its completion. It keeps me flipping through crates, looking for a lottery-like payout. Record stores are a bit like thrift stores in that they produce a sense of rarity and...
Occupy A Bank
...the internet in mind. McKenzie Wark has written about the effective occupation of internet territory and the media. The occupation is building bit by bit, spreading to cities from Boston...
Just the Facts
...the scientific objectivity of the technocrat might finally resolve political disagreement or at least convey some bit of truth to those reasonable enough to listen. But stubborn ideological opponents can...
Bend It Like Benglis
...editors’ personal sensibilities but also of the larger (and conveniently undefined) “aims of [the women’s] movement.” Another grievance: As art writers and editors, these five felt professionally compromised by their...
Days Spent Doing Too Much of Fucking Nothing
...documents the major events of each day: the triumphs of waking up early, often before dawn, for the coveted packets of sugar that come with breakfast, and a bit later...