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Blue Bayou
In honor of the death of New Orleans’ venerable newspaper, The Times Picayune, I am republishing the essay I wrote for the city after Katrina, on Sept. 9, 2005. The passenger pigeon, the last of whom...
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Straight Skinny Epitaph: Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm, 1917-2012
Eric Hobsbawm, by Karen Robinson for the Guardian. I was having dinner recently with the assistant to the Macondo state historian, a man of the people, who was the first in his family to have attended...
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Straight Skinny Epitaph: Oscar Niemayer, Stalinist, Architect of Brasilia,...
Saul Friedlander has famously defined death kitsch as the bedrock of Nazi aesthetics, an effectively staged transfiguration by fire and klieg lights like the Gotterdamerung of Wagner’s imagining...
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Miley Cyrus and Slut Shaming
Tressie McMillan Cottom in her epic post on the Miley Cyrus MTV awards performance has got down to the stasis point in all the gasbaggery around that performance. My old friend Karen DeWitt has posted...
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The Case Against Mayor Berry’s Trail Through the Bosque
This is an excerpt from a report I wrote for another park 10 years ago. The dates but not the principles have changed, and some bosque-specific information has been added. I. Multi-Use Trails...
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Mayor Berry’s Road Through the Bosque: Can You Afford $743 to Go to the Park?
The mayor’s vision for the bosque from the first plan through this last one, of which the main feature is still the 10-foot wide surfaced trail, has always had a peculiar dissonance with the nature...
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Mayor Berry’s Single Most Destructive Plan for the Bosque
Induced Travel Pedestrian Traffic Engineering Principles How the Mayor’s Path Through the Bosque Will Run Pedestrians Out, Increase the Crime Rate, and Complete the Ecocide We Started...
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Straight Skinny Epitaph: Doris Lessing, 1919-2013
Doris Lessing may have been — but for her acceptance of the Nobel Prize — the first of the feminist breed for whose existence Virginia Woolf called in *Three Guineas*. The non-secessionist outsider....
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No Justice, No Peace
So, about the crisis of confidence in the Albuquerque police department. A roundup to settle my thoughts. 1.I am wondering if the peace officer who has charged David Correia with assault at the sit in...
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Oppose the Legalization of Prostitution
She goes by the name of “My Old Hell Freezes Over Friend” (MOHFOF) in my top sekrit online journal, to which a few of you are privy. The wench is dead now, and I am in another country. I feel I can put...
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