A few of you wonderful readers may dimly recall that I've long been a fan of "Supergirl" -- which is NOT the piece of schlock superhero idiocy you expect to find in the Vast Wasteland (quoting a long-ago TV observer, Marshall McLuhan
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A couple of weeks ago, New Yorker magazine had a good piece on the novelist Margaret Atwood's upcoming sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, which she wrote back in the 90s
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Just as he's made the Fourth of July on the National Mall about himself, the Asshole-in-Chief tonight moved to make the 2020 U.S. Census about his, DJT's, ludicrous vision of a country ruled by his own ridiculous SELF
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I've been reading a new book called "War on Peace" -- about contemporary American diplomacy's assorted perils. It's by a young writer named Ronan Farrow -- son of Mia Farrow (yay!) and Woody Allen (boo
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I just sent a very unhappy letter to an old friend of this blog. Some of you may recall the talented work of Lauren Peralta. Well, now, ALL of her work, old and new, is arbitrarily "restricted" by Lauren's own decision
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I wandered onto a favorite photographer's site just now, wanting a couple of her recent photos, but frustrated because all of hers are restricted. Then I noticed that she's in a Flickr-group that grandly proclaims its dedication to "no censorship
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Back two years ago, there was a great photo posted by Matt Duke -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattduke/ -- and he restricted access to the usual "family/friends." Matt's an extremely thoughtful Flickr member -- he discriminates well between what can be blogged and what is
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