Like every two-bit journalist at this time of year, I grabbed a look over my shoulder to see what was left behind. It was uglier than roadkill. The mush rush of the past 12 months turned my stomach. Here’s shitty reminder. Which is where

Sri Aurobindo, the yogi master whose teachings he greatly admired. (E.g.: “An inch of experience goes farther than a yard of logic.” “The example is more powerful than the instruction.” “Yoga means a change of consciousness; a mere mental activity will not bring a change of consciousness, it can only bring a change of mind.”) […]

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If this video doesn’t illustrate the power of a signature, nothing does: Today, as Human Rights Day and the culmination of Q&A. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

“aieeeeee,” sez un buen amigo, “el keith es un hombre con cojones gigantescos!” Yes, Keith Olbermann still sizzles. His latest special commentary, an here and BnnRpbi

It’s an excerpt from William Osborne’s 50-minute music video, trailer for the video, which gives a broader sample of the work. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

She’s making me blush. I don’t usually get admiring emails from law profs. Hi Jan — I just wanted to introduce myself, having followed your blog with great interest.  My name is Sonia Katyal, and I am a law professor who specializes in the area of art, law and technology at Fordham Law School in […]

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I have no idea how many readers wrote to tell them. But I know of at least one. This was my email message to The New York Times Book Review: (“Chelsea Mornings,” Oct. 28) Mr. Burroughs wrote the manuscript at the Villa Muniria in Tangier (at 1 Calle Magallanes, where Jack Kerouac typed up an […]

It is a delicious irony of life in New York to ride the subway during the morning rush hour with Dave Frishberg’s “Quality Time” playing on your iPod Among other things, they offer an eyeful on the not small matter of prevarication, which some would submit is the issue of our time. Have a look […]

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“Nelson Algren’s Last Night!” Made by Warren Leming and Carmine Cervi, it’s a Chicago: City on the Make(from the introduction to the 1961 edition dedicated to Joan Baez) Meanwhile, per World Can’t Wait: Today a belligerent President Bush comes to the United Nations to impress upon the world that the U.S. is in the Middle […]

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Paul Krugman’s The Sunni Genocide, December 8, 2005. Lede: Now that Harold Pinter has given his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, he has also provided us with cover to post what may be the most incredible item — truly the hardest to believe — we’ve ever put up. It’s not only about genocide, which we’ve written […]

Jay Rosen lays it out.

The jingoism implicit in daily life taints everything we say, let alone what we do. To use my friend Bill Osborne’s term, we are all “Orwellian zombies.” This includes even the most sincere opponents of the BnnRpbiChris Hedges, a former war correspondent. His loathing of war in general and the Iraq war in particular expressed […]