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Proof that Jay Carney et. al. rarely talks to the president but

by artappraiser 12/5/2013 - 10:07 pm

just puts on a useless dog and pony show every day, riffing off of and babbling general talking points, or what his staff can find in books and on the internet if there are no applicable talking points:

White House corrects record, says Obama did live with uncle briefly in 1980s
By Aaron Blake and Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, Dec. 5, 2013 [Read more]

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Krampus: Saint Nicholas' Dark Companion

by artappraiser 12/5/2013 - 1:20 am

Photo essay by Alan Taylor @ TheAtlantic.com, Dec. 3, 2013

Intro: [Read more]

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Hello, it's me

by artappraiser 10/28/2013 - 11:35 pm

 

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"The Life of the Artist" by Albert Camus

by artappraiser 8/13/2013 - 10:42 pm

The text for Camus’s silent play about the struggle for artistic authenticity, is now available translated into English for the first time by Ryan  Bloom* @ The New Yorker

*Ryan Bloom is an English lecturer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His translation of Albert Camus’s “Notebooks 1951-1959” (Rowman & Littlefield) was nominated for the 2009 French-American and Florence Gould Foundation’s Excellence in Translation award.

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Obama said: “Let’s just put the whole elephant out there, and examine what’s working”

by artappraiser 8/10/2013 - 3:13 pm

in the news conference yesterday.

So I'd like to see him personally see to it that these people are allowed to talk about at least some of what they went through with the elephant: 2 E-Mail Services Close and Destroy Data Rather Than Reveal Files. The extent and comprehensiveness of these kind of gag orders are unacceptable and very frightening. And people do not give up years of work and their way of making a living over minor threats. [Read more]

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Excellent diagnosis, doc

by artappraiser 6/7/2013 - 4:21 pm

In response to the New York Times' “The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill” (“Paying Till It Hurts” series, front page, June 2,)

Kenneth Prager, a professor of clinical medicine at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, wrote the following short Letter to the Editor, which was published June 3 along with several others: [Read more]

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More compare and contrast

by artappraiser 4/10/2013 - 3:02 am

When nuns puked nails
by Josephine Livingstone, Prospect blog, April 5, 2013
{a review of Brian Levack’s new history of demonic possession in the Christian West, "The Devil Within" (Yale, £25)]

VS.

The D.S.M. and the Nature of Disease
by Gary Greenberg, Elements @ newyorker.com, April 9, 2013
[Gary Greenberg’s new book, “The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry,” will be published in May] [Read more]

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China has had more school massacres by 'rampage killers' than the U.S.?

by artappraiser 2/22/2013 - 3:10 pm

That's what this Wikipedia chart says:

List of rampage killers: School massacres

It's interactive, you can have the chart sort by any of the headings. If you click on "Country," it will sort alphabetically by country.

I count

21 incidents in China from  occurring 1995 through 2012

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17 incidents in the U.S. occurring from 1927 (yes, that's 1927 ) through 2012. [Read more]

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Geezers rock!

by artappraiser 11/26/2012 - 12:35 pm

Despite some engaging guest performances including the much-reported reunions with former bandmates Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor, the core quartet didn't hit top speed until the show's second half. When they did, they were untouchable.

-Paul Sexton @ Billboard.com, November 26, 2012

As Danny and The Juniors foretold in 1958:

 

 

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"Saltz’s Devastating Tour Through Chelsea’s Ruined Art Galleries"

by artappraiser 11/3/2012 - 12:36 am

By Jerry Saltz, nymag.com, Nov. 1, 2012

Excerpt:

Many ridicule Chelsea galleries as flesh-eating pariahs. I think they're part of our life blood, the collective organism that in many ways makes New York one of the most thriving centers for art on earth. These ridiculed and reviled galleries are places you can go for free, run by strange people with visions who want to help artists by showing and selling their work. It's become an international pastime to attack these galleries simply for being what they are: large and commercial. I love them. All. More than ever. [Read more]

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