Above is a tinted, enhanced version of the low-contrast photo below, taken sometime around 1973 or 1974…
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Jun 14 2013
Embracing an extreme
Hereditary Traits
By Jeremy Stahl, Friday, June 14, 2013, at 12:06 PM
On Thursday, BuzzFeed Washington, D.C., bureau chief John Stanton published a pair of articles calling out the sons of two separate Republican members of Congress for racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, sexist, and homophobic social media accounts.
Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake’s teenage son, Tanner, went by the name “n1ggerkiller” in an online game, and posted YouTube comments using the word “nigger” and calling Mexicans “the scum of … [more]
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Jun 14 2013
A kind of paranoid art
NSA to Americans: ‘All your data are belong to us!’
By Dan Hind, 10 Jun 2013 18:19
A few days ago, the Guardian published details of the US National Security Administration’s PRISM programme. We now know that the NSA is able to access personal data stored by Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Paltalk, YouTube, Skype, AOL and Apple. Though these companies have done their best to downplay the significance of the story, the revelations should force us to … [more]
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Jun 09 2013
Saturday Night
All in the space of about two blocks…
By Monsieur d’Nalgar, June 7, 2013
Last night, Saturday, June 8, 2013, there was a progressive concert on Bathhouse Row. All part of our annual Hot Springs Music Festival. Each group played for about five minutes, and then the audience “progressed” on to the next event.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2PdJgGhYHk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9ZmwoVuBD0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqfoysw8bOQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlKdSiktv-s
Then it was back two blocks, to Maxine’s (now non-smoking!!) for pizza and Uncle Joe and the Backslider’s Choir and … [more]
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Jun 01 2013
The question of why Israel rubs
Why do people hate Israel? (a self-test)
By Bradley Burston, May.28, 2013 | 8:15 PM
Every year, the BBC World Service publishes a Country Ratings opinion survey, meant to indicate which of the world’s nations are among the most popular, and which the most disliked.
In 2013, as in years past, more than 26,000 respondents were asked to rate a list of countries as to whether the influence of those nations in the world was “mainly positive” … [more]
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May 31 2013
An extraordinary swamp
The prosperity gospel makes a mockery of Christianity
By Andrew Brown, May 29, 2013
There is a very good programme on the “prosperity gospel” available on the Radio 4 website right now. Two things need saying about it. The first is that it proves, if anything could, the difficulty of defining religions in terms of their doctrine. Prosperity gospellers pretend to be Christian, but their teaching seems to me absolutely antithetical to everything that makes Christianity worth … [more]
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May 23 2013
Moore, Oklahoma: 3 days later
These photographs were taken earlier this morning, on the way back from Oklahoma City. It was still raining hard, and there was lots of lightning. Perhaps that’s why we were able to drive into the devastation…
This is Blake Butler’s video, shot while I was taking the photos above:
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