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Monthly Archives: June, 2009

Downsizing cities: ‘US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive’

In Meltdown Geography, Richard Florida examined how cities in the US and regions across the world would be affected by financial meltdown.  While some urban centres would thrive and grow, … Continue reading

14 June, 2009 · Leave a comment

Banksy: Putting the 'mp' in Chimps

A new Banksy exhibition opens in Bristol this weekend to run for three months, entitled Banksy vs the Bristol Museum. Famous for such memorable artworks as the bouquet-throwing resistance-fighter, the … Continue reading

13 June, 2009 · 1 Comment

Illegal settlements, land grabs and US tax dollars

Despite US calls for it to be halted, Israel has said that illegal settlements will continue in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem. Palestinians fear that the Obama administration’s … Continue reading

11 June, 2009 · Leave a comment

Doonesbury attracts Abe Foxman's ire for 'anti-semitic' cartoon

Here is a recent cartoon (below) in the popular, long-standing and widely syndicated Doonesbury series by Garry Trudeau. Abe Foxman’s Anti Defamation League of B’nai Brith have somehow uncovered anti-Semitism … Continue reading

10 June, 2009 · 8 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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