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05.12.10Empire of IllusionThe cost of our empire of illusion is not being paid by the corporate titans. It is being paid in the streets of our inner cities, in former manufacturing town, and in depressed rural enclaves. This cost transcends declining numbers and statistics and speaks the language of human misery and pain. Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion Chris Hedges' Empire of Illusion is in part an angry screed, in part a Jeremiad lament, and (in small) part a vision of a better America. With a mixture of raw anger and sharp analysis, he covers a wide range of topics--professional wrestling, ...
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12.03.09you’ve got questions, I’ve got answersAs oracular devices go, Internet search engines are a little better than reading sheep entrails and a little worse than the I Ching. The Internet is so full of bad and misleading information, that unless you already know what you're looking for you'll be easily duped. And because most search engines add a little "wisdom of the crowds" (or the "none of us is as dumb as all of us" principal) to their algorithms, bad information tends to reinforce more bad information. In most cases, you're better off asking a person--your father (who might lie to you), ...
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04.21.09a solace of ripe plums. . . They taste good to her You can see it by the way she gives herself to the one half sucked out in her hand Comforted a solace of ripe plums seeming to fill the air They taste good to her William Carlos Williams Reading the Confessions of a Bailout CEO Wife at Portfolio.com without giving in to boiling rage is a good exercise in the sort of ...
