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Are you an artist worried about the public interpreting your pretentious, froufrou pieces?
Well, let the FBI have a crack at it.
(Actually, don’t.)
Back in May 2004, SUNY art history professor Steve Kurtz became involved in just that: a convoluted, complicated and wholly unnecessary FBI bio-terrorism investigation based on Kurtz’s art supplies. In April this year, he [...]

Read An artist’s worst nightmare »

Last Friday, hot on the heels of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that Guantanamo Bay detainees have the right to challenge their imprisonment in the US Court System, Sen. John McCain called it “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”
Really, John?  Was that hyperbole, like when your mom orders the Monte [...]

Read The weekend roundup: habeas schmabeas »

“I’m dying in this fucking country-assed fucked-up town!”
That’s the plaintive… okay, angry… okay, slobbery… rant of a local reporter who just touched tonsils with an insect the size of a Hummer…and reacted on tape.
When I viewed this on Saturday June 14, the YouTube channel “documentedignorance“’s copy of the news-only tape had gotten over 25,000 views. [...]

Read Viral humor/viral ignorance »

pola1.jpgTaking one polaroid a day is all Jamie Livingston did for the last 18 years of his life. Think you could pull it off?

Read A life in polaroid »
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