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Age Of Plastics

Poly Styrene/X-Ray Spex’s Conscious Consumer album is classic. Junk Food Junkie is a lot of fun. You could also that The Day The World Turned Day Glo is about the age of plastics. The...

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Delusional Aspirationalism

Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and a business strategist based in Marin County, California, goes even further. “Squatter cities are ‘vibrant,” he writes in a recent article on megacities. “Each...

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Sage Advice

[The] desire by some of Hollywood’s hottest young female stars to be photographed getting in and out of limousines in short skirts while wearing absolutely no undergarments is arguably one of Tinseltown’s most disturbing...

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Growth Industry

A record 7 million people –or one in every 32 American adults – were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of [2005] … In the 25-29 age group, 8.1 percent...

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Logical Progression

I noticed some writing that said that the idea of the noosphere began with the late 19th-century Russian, Vernadsky, which was then appropriated by de Chardin and taken into Catholicism before being declared a...

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Dodging Godwin

The most literal shock of recognition was the repulsively callous arrogance of the term “shock and awe.” (The Iraqi people were supposed to pause and be impressed by our bombs before being incinerated/liberated by...

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Reality Bites

At a recent White House reception for freshman members of Congress, Virginia’s newest senator tried to avoid President Bush. Democrat James Webb declined to stand in a presidential receiving line or to have his...