Monthly Archives: May 2017

Sokal Redux?

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Fenster

Fenster writes: When making sense no longer makes sense it is very tempting to stop making sense, this urge itself a form of sense-making.  In 1984 the interrogator tells Winston Smith that two and two can equal five if the … Continue reading →

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Notes on “Get Out” (2017)

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: I finally caught up with GET OUT, writer-director Jordan Peele’s racial satire. A box-office smash beloved by critics (well, most of them), Peele takes Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “black bodies” rhetoric and recasts it into a horror-thriller. Chris Washington, a … Continue reading →

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Little Pieces of Blue Jelly

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Dickie stopped in the road, looking at him. They were arguing so loudly, a few people around them were looking, watching. ‘It could have been fun,’ Tom said, ‘but not the way you chose to take … Continue reading →

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Architecture and Color

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes:

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“The Fits”

Posted on May 28, 2017 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: For much of its running time “The Fits,” the first feature film from writer-director Anna Rose Holmer, is a sensitive and nicely underplayed piece of naturalistic humanism. Holmer’s camera follows 11-year-old Toni (the bracingly earnest Royalty … Continue reading →

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Linkage

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: James Kunstler: “The Deep State is determined to drive Trump from office.” Thomas E. Patterson, professor of government and media at Harvard: “Trump’s coverage during his first 100 days set a new standard for negativity. Of news … Continue reading →

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Radical Thought

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes:

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Left, Right, Left, Right, Left

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Ah, the times in which we live.   Here is Michael Lind, once conservative, then a critic of conservatism, now writing an article not for Salon but for the Trumpist journal American Affairs. Is this a conservative piece? … Continue reading →

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Architecture and Color

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes:

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Juxtaposin’: The King Threatens?

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: In June 1170, Roger de Pont L’Évêque, the archbishop of York, along with Gilbert Foliot, the Bishop of London, and Josceline de Bohon, the Bishop of Salisbury, crowned the heir apparent, Henry the Young King, at York. This … Continue reading →

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