Jerry Garcia’s Name-Claiming Journey Beyond the Grateful Dead

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  • Battle of Algiers, again

    Saw Battle of Algiers again today. Great stuff, and so resonant with US in Iraq. You’ve got your torture, and your generic willingness to forego legality at the altar of lethality and alleged effectiveness. You’ve got Mathieu telling the media to toe the line (though US MSM ca. 2007 would never dare to ask such…

  • Tenure!

    ’nuff said.

  • Parlez-vous EU?

    This here is some classic EU-speak. Still, it’s amazing and imporant to see ridiculous, artificially-precise and seemingly legalized procedural arcania representing the presumptive response to disagreement — as opposed to, oh, I dunno, war. In addition, until 31 March 2017, if members of the Council representing at least 75% of the population or at least…

  • Midnight Express

    Saw Midnight Express for the first time a few nights ago. I guess it looked interesting based on the Blockbuster online description. Feh. Didn’t like it. Was not persuaded or in the least moved by the main character’s descent into madness. Poorly acted, phony feeling, in particular in the rendering of the Turkish as monsters,…

  • Judgment at Nuremberg

    Saw “Judgment at Nuremberg” for the first time last week. Loved it. I wish our current regime would take a look at this and see how those accused of even the most heinous acts should be treated. The way we treat our captives expresses who we are, not who they are. I like the way…

  • Generous Americans

    We give lots more in charity than Europeans do. Not at all surprising to me.

  • On the Road

    Just read this for the first time. Loved it. Have a few quotes that I’d like to single out but don’t have the book in front of me. Anyway, a neat American adventure that’s utterly without a purpose, which purposelessness, of course, makes it deeply suspect in today’s America. Of course have seen it said…

  • Britain’s Surveillance Society

    “The World” had a fascinating and frightening report on surveillance in Britain.

  • Takedown!

    David Rieff brilliantly takes down some of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s romanticism about America and its role in the world. I love the ideals she lays out, but his empirical critique is spot-on, IMO.

  • ouch

    FIU “one of the very worst universities in the country”? Ouch.