Brian Eno with a compelling, if slightly obvious, model for the modern empire — an American ethos that doesn’t feel alien to the contemporary Canadian mindset: A gated community is defensive. Designed to keep the “others” out, it dissolves the rich web of society into a random clustering of disconnected individuals. It turns paranoia and […]

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The following passage, from ee cummings’ six nonlectures, was not written with our interminable War On All Evil in mind, but it could have been: . . . “Security?” I marvel to myself ”what is that? Something negative, undead, suspicious and suspecting; an avarice and an avoidance; a self-surrendering meanness of withdrawal; a numerable complacency […]

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Selected responses from an online petition to Wal-Mart, urging them to continue selling handgun ammunition. I’m a career Police Officer and my family and I shop at Walmart, exclusively. However if you cave into the liberal socialist scum and stop selling ammunition. I will not shop with you ever again. You should learn from K-Marts […]

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The urban legend goes that Tom Lehrer quit performing when Henry Kissinger was given the Nobel Peace Prize, because the award had rendered political satire obsolete. That bit of apocrypha came to mind last week when America’s most beloved war criminal was appointed to lead an ‘independent’ inquiry into the September 11th attacks. Though the […]

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