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Here’s a stumper: if the definition of irony is typically something like “that which goes against expectations,” then how could an Avant-Garde artist—one who is expected to test the boundaries of our expectations—ever satisfy popular, mainstream, garden-variety tastes in irony? At some point, the Avant-Garde artist will, according to his nature, go against the expected means by which the unexpected is supposed to be realized; he will offer us a new unexpectedness. (more…)
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The Montgomery, Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a tax exempt, anti-First Amendment organization as “prestigious,” “respectable,” successful, and Establishmentarian as they come, (more…)
As the drought intensifies in California an old idea comes to mind.
Donald Baker, an engineer with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power dreamed up the idea of shipping surplus northern water south and in 1964 took his idea to the Parsons Corporation where the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA) was born.
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“Aquellos que hablan demasiado sobre raza, ya no tienen ninguna”.–Oswald Spengler
Recientemente he pasado una buena cantidad de tiempo releyendo al gran Oswald Spengler: para ilustración general, pero también con un ojo para criticar sus enseñanzas sobre raza, que a la primera lectura me parecieron confusas, bizarras, y peligrosas. (more…)
Rousseau’s brave savages
had circled her covered wagon,
leaving vestiges
of life that could have been:
dreams of a promised land,
a son and rag-doll daughter,
a scalped Scottish husband,
and not a drop of water.