Sunday Reading
...employ as many private security guards as high school teachers." Nice unions finish last "[P]ower doesn’t come from friendly campaigns and negotiating with management." The testing ground for the new...
Troubled Mime
...own behalf. His motives he did not reveal, even after he won acquittal. As to why such a talented man should kill a child, Deburau's biographer Tristan Rémy conjectured that...
Sunday Reading
...Be “A Glorious Thing Made Up of Star Dust” A clash of cultures Sanskrit was First recorded In Syria Reclaim UC: UC president Janet Napolitano secretly had computer hardware installed...
Everything Fantastic is Credible: “Bombay’s Republic,” week one
...not only kill them but you also will happily cook them for supper. The Japanese, as you very well know, are trained to fight without fear of death. They don’t...
Life Is Too Much Like Real Life
...every function—it’s hard not to see a certain parallel with how capitalism is killing and eating liberalism. Our heroes spend most of the movie being completely at a loss as...
Transcript on a Face
...being presented as a deadly force option while he was hitting me in the face Wilson's characterization of the community surrounding the killing scene (what the prosecution called "folks that...
Extremists in The Mainstream
...this reason, some readers might not see Goliath as being focused on the mainstream, and I even found myself thinking on occasion: “Israelis don’t always come off as this rabid.”...
On Rage and Swagger
...There are things that make us enraged, above all ways of death: when police kill unarmed teenagers, when states murder behind the veil of law, when bands of racists go...
Anatomy of a Dissection
...doesn’t belong there, so she tries to kill it, but only succeeds in cracking its shell. The injured roach sits in front of her with crumpling antennae and pus oozing...
Bodies of Water
...its complicity in the dictatorship and the disappearances, including campaigns of misinformation in presenting assassinations as suicides or apolitical crimes. In 1976, the body of Marta Ugarte, a teacher and...
Shelter
...sees a revived literary culture intertwined with the pursuit of political independence, with one leading novelist gaining fame when he described English people working in Scotland as either “settlers” or...
Cinema Guantánamo
...Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (‘bounty hunters track and kill witches all over the world’), Side Effects (‘a psychiatric-meds melodrama about an NYC woman whose husband’s in prison’), and Warm...
Encore
A Second Letter from Paris
Walter White Supremacy
...skill and experience around, but the science equipment knows objective quality, and there's no competing with the only white guy in the room. These plots expect viewers to cheer while...
Room 406
...brother, go to Tadmor Prison with orders to kill every prisoner, whether they are connected to the Muslim Brotherhood or not. The commandos arrive at dawn. The prisoners are in...
Un(der)seen Cinema: The Decline of Western Civilization
...fucking life is a wreck / we're desperate / get used to it it's kiss or kill / coca-cola and a motorola kitchen / nauga-hyde and a tie-dye t-shirt /...