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Dept Of Black Banjo 9 Aug 2013 | 11:52 pm
The Carolina Chocolate Drops give new life to the near forgotten genre of Afro-American banjo and fiddle music. I will be enjoying them later today at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival. The awesome sau...
Do Androids Need Buddhist Non-Attachment? (And A PowerWasher) 9 Aug 2013 | 10:45 pm
The Blue Fairy from A.I. Artificial Intelligence 1. The robot who loved his ‘mom’ too much 2. The robot who loved whoever came into the room, too much Robot Programmed to Fall in Love with a Girl G...
Snaps From The Underground ~ Soviet/Post-Soviet Punk 8 Aug 2013 | 11:01 am
Red Teddies, Leningrad 1984 c/o Alexander Boyko, from the archive of Ruslan Ziggelya From the Barrelhouse has assembled an excellent gallery of images from the Russian underground scene (1980 – 2012)...
Positive Money 7 Aug 2013 | 02:22 am
Financialization 101: How banks eat the economy, and transfer wealth to the 1 percent.
“Freedom” of the Press (As Long As You Are Behind Bars) 27 Jul 2013 | 11:32 pm
Recently Released Yemeni Journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye, Jailed at Obama’s Behest (photo c/o AP) One of the more contemptible policies of the Obama administration is its efforts to criminalize jou...
A short list of famous (and sometimes insulting) things that have been said about Edmonton, Alberta 30 Jun 2013 | 12:52 am
The recent outcry by Edmonton’s outgoing mayor, Stephen Mandel, over the apparent slur against his city by the National Post continues a long tradition. The Post, whether slanderously or satirically –...
The (Brief) History Of A Dangerous Idea 27 Jun 2013 | 01:54 pm
Find yourself a comfy chair and strap in tight. The g-force may be a little unpleasant as you reach escape velocity, but it’s worth the initial struggle to get up to speed with a man who speaks with t...
Voting Rights Act Effectively Dead–neo-Jim Crow Prevails 25 Jun 2013 | 09:56 pm
Yeah, cuz We Can Trust Southern States to Protect Minority Voting Rights . . . (Florida Voting Precinct, 2012 c/o New York Times). And note, you can’t find any similar pictures for white voters. Hmmm....
Snowden On The Move, Via Moscow 24 Jun 2013 | 01:08 am
Snowden applies for asylum in Ecuador Ecuador’s foreign minister confirms on Twitter that NSA whistle-blower has applied for asylum. Game Set Match: ‘US loses as Snowden slips from their hands’
A Question of Madness–NSA Edition 23 Jun 2013 | 08:06 pm
Nadezha Tylik Tranquilized for “Excessive Emotionalism” as She Questioned Authorities after the Death of her Son in the Kursk Sinking, 2001 (c/o St. Petersburg Times) The revelations of NSA domest...
