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Beckerman’s dissection of Generation Y
Excerpted from a Salon.com interview of Marty Beckerman, author of Generation S.L.U.T. His book documents a generation raised by divorced parents, meaningless icons of success, and a corrupt, reality-distorting entertainment media that capitalizes on the psychological weaknesses of America’s young.
Fog of War
A documentary film by Errol Morris, interviewing Robert McNamara.
Scam Spam Correspondence
By this time, nearly everyone in North America has received the infamous Nigerian fraud email.
The Year of Our Lord, 1973
I’ve always been a little strangely fascinated with my birthyear. I know that sounds narcissistic, but you’ll have to take my word on this. I don’t collect historical tidbits of the year 1973 for any egotistical reason. It’s just plain old vanilla obsessive compulsive disorder. The following are facts I’ve collected about this year, organized …
Gross Pointe Blank quotes
These are some amusing, but somewhat prescient quotes from the great John Cusack’s character Martin Blank.
Floyd McClung on spiritual valleys
One view of faith
“Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.”–John Updike
White Stripes album poetry
This is from the liner notes from the Elephant album.
House of Sand and Fog
What does it mean in the end to own the world but lose your soul? What good do possessions serve us if we lose our minds in the process of possessing them?