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Process this
Read more: Process thisMan and machine, or the other way round? On stormy days I stalk and insult words and expressions I consider alien invaders. I work up lather. I get my dander up. I champion Jurassic speech for the love of dinosaurs. Last time around I found “multiple” alone in an alley…
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Optics
Read more: OpticsWhen a left eye feels like a volcano, call it Stromboli. Without my glasses my doctor looks like Galileo. Or Copernicus. Or Mr. Morgan, who taught 12th-grade English. I’m certain he’s one of the three or a combination of them. He — this doctor who is an amalgam of familiar…
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Blood jingles
Read more: Blood jinglesIn Istanbul, Damascus and Beirut, the show just goes on. Terrorism is now a kind of brand. It is like the anti-Christmas, or the anti-Coke. Consumer society has learned to configure the nefarious into a highly organized and sellable “package” maximized for dramatic effect. Terrorism is its own actor in…
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Animus
Read more: AnimusDetail from “Skyscrapers and Tunnels,” 1930, by Fortunato Depero. Postmodernism was coined at a time when cars, planes and skyscrapers made mere modern insufficient. If modernism meant electricity, water, better medicine and the lifting of superstition, the postmodern was about life in that new (and ostensibly better) state. Freud and…
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Bagman
Read more: BagmanThe horizontal Sisyphus bears the same burden as the one pushing uphill. Iwas hauling home two bags of groceries from the supermarket when an African vendor approached me on the sidewalk. I scowled but he persisted. My patience withered in a flash. “Look at me,” I hissed. “Can’t you see…
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Hurricane Trump
Read more: Hurricane TrumpRage unites around anyone willing to serve it. The best businessmen are shrewd opportunists. Why then should the rise of Donald Trump surprise 21st-century observers who’ve watched for nearly two decades as America’s conservative political environment deteriorated into a cabaret of internecine and partisan hostility, most of it vicious, hyper-opportunistic,…
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