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Last Sunday there was much more art outside the MoMA than in. Fifty third St. was feeding floats onto 5th Ave. to the Pride Parade.  The crowd was jubilant; people of all kinds from everywhere, all enjoying this day. To me this image was most telling.  Remembering what the cops did in NY in 1969  … Read more

Rep. John Boehner is right: the Climate Bill is a “piece of sh*t” (that family values crowd sure has a way with words).  But not for the reasons that Orange John asserts. But because the thing is so weak as to make it ridiculous. Here’s an assessment of the bill by Dennis Kucinich: “The bill … Read more

Last week we were treated to another obituary for print.  Thus time from Steve Balmer of Microsoft.  Once again, someone with authority put the death watch on the print news business.  5 years. 8 years.  Wait I’ll set my oven timer. Okay enough.  I have been spending the last 6 months (and much of it … Read more

As much a monument or icon as a performer, the death today of Michael Jackson is a seismic cultural event. Nobody more important in his generation. A titanic talent. Perhaps maybe too much for the vessel. Here’s a piece from back in the day.

Neda Agha-Soltan’s life is sketched in below, from CNN. Her life as an icon has just begun. And as we grieve for her and the tragedy of Iran, we can be forgiven to nod to the fact that Neda, living at that time and place, has in her short life, illuminated the world. “The second … Read more