GeneralAttention PoetsMy friend Brad Buchanan, poet and Professor of English in Sacramento, has launched a small poetry publishing house called Roan...
Generalterror tourismLooking for something off the wall this summer? Go to Berlin and visit the Stasi-themed bar . Or, if you’re in New York, go to...
GeneralThe Puppetry Will be RelentlessActivists gearing up for the Democratic Convention in Denver next month have decided that instead of dealing in anger and...
GeneralTold You SoEight months from now, either John McCain or Barack Obama will be the new president-elect of the United States of America. And if...
GeneralDomo Arigato, WikipediaA while ago my friend Paul sent me the wikipedia entry for Robot (Dance), which pretty much sums up everything there is to love...
GeneralObama of the CommunityRyan Lizza’s recent New Yorker piece on Obama is well worth the hour. Not for the first time, it strikes me that this sort of...
GeneralHow to honour Solzhenitsyn?I’ve not read a word of the Gulag Archipelago. I did read Anne Applebaum’s book Gulag a few years ago, and thought it was...
Generallicentiousness under mao"I forbid you to talk to Sunyun, or go to any dance party she invites you to. She’s only fifteen, but she already owns a digital...
GeneralCostanza NationThe driver pulled to the side of the road and opened the doors, allowing passengers to flee. They scrambled over one another and...