Thursday, November 22, 2012

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, November 22, 2012)

(1)- LANGUAGE -- English is at once a consequence and an instrument of American imperial power, an appreciable asset for American anglophones in the 21st-century global contest for advantage, prosperity, and power.

(2)- FEMALE CONSCIENCE -- If men and women play different social roles based on their respective natures, how do we calibrate their moral standing? How can we judge where the greatest moral good is to be found?

(3)- THE TECHNOLOGIES OF COMPOSITION -- At a time when new media are proliferating, it is tempting to imagine that authors, thinking about how their writing will appear on devices… will adapt their prose.

(4)- UPPER MIDDLEBROW --  The new form is infinitely subtler than Midcult. It is post- rather than pre-ironic, its sentimentality hidden by a veil of cool. It is edgy, clever, knowing, stylish, and formally inventive.

(5)- DANCE, DANCE REVOLUTION -- A field report from Electric Daisy Carnival, a three-night bacchanal in the Las Vegas desert attended by “100,000 wasted hedonists scantily dressed in furry underwear.”

(6)- READING: A PERSONALITY DISORDER? -- “If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it’s probably because at some level you find “reality” a bit of a disappointment.”

(7)- THE INNOCENT MAN – In August 1986, Michael Morton came home from work to discover that his wife had been brutally murdered in their bed. His nightmare had only begun. Here is a Texas Monthly two-part report.

(8)- DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE -- Superhumanly determined, Reinhold Messner has p8ursued his uncompromising vision to reach the summits of Earth's highest peaks—and beyond.

(9)- WHERE ARE THEY -- Unlike the luminaries housed at more elegant cemeteries, like Pere Lachaise in Paris (Victor Hugo, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Richard Wright), many literary stars lie for eternity in simpler, plainer spots around this country.

POLITICAL CARTOON

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