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Time and again over the past few weeks I’ve heard stories of people who wrestle with institutions only to find the institutions putting them in a full nelson. It’s as if what’s the matter with Kansas is the matter with the whole damn world: everyone lending a hand in the decimation of their own interests. [...]

I wonder if Roger Shimomura is sick of talking about Roy Lichtenstein. I went to see the “Yellow Terror” exhibit on its last day of hanging last Sunday, and two things struck me about it. The first is of course the stories: the direct, linear arguments being made against an endless number of incidents of [...]

If it’s true that every generation throws a hero up the pop charts, there must be something in the Thames that dramatically shortens the human gestation cycle. Either that, or the English system for creating and selling celebrity, distilled perfectly in the late Malcolm McLaren, still works like gangbusters in a musical post-industrial age. There’s [...]

There’s a lot of free-floating blame in the air in Douglas, Arizona after rancher Robert Krentz was found dead in his car late last month. The single set of footprints that lead neatly to the Mexican border have gotten the militias and Malkins all hard and wet, justifying their call for Federal intervention (oh, just [...]