Questions Swirl Around Medical Mess
[Viggo Mortensen, Perceval Press] In the U.S.A., at this time when at least an incremental step is being considered by Congress toward legally guaranteeing that all citizens have some form […]
Month: July 2009
A Note From Pixies’ Black Francis
I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
David Beckham: Hollow Man?
[Amy Bass, Morphizm So here’s what I said to Alexi Lalas after reading Grant Wahl’s book, The Beckham Experiment: How the World’s Most Famous Athlete Tried to Conquer America. When […]
The Day the President Turned Black
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] He’s in hot water now. For a moment, on national television, the President of the United States turned black! Last week, when his buddy “Skip” Gates got […]
Capitalism, Sarah Palin-Style
[Naomi Klein, The Progressive] We are in a progressive moment, a moment when the ground is shifting beneath our feet, and anything is possible. What we considered unimaginable about what […]
What Really Causes Autism? Everything.
I knew about as much as the next journo about autism, before AlterNet sent me in search of its roots and riots. And what usually never happens happened: I came […]
Hip-Hop’s Good, Great and Not Great
Mos Def’s hyper-aware culture raps keep it smart the whole way.
Jeff Lemire’s The Nobody Takes Invisible Man To Twin Peaks
But like Lynch’s Peaks before it, The Nobody‘s impressive science lies not in the mad experiments of the Invisible Man, or the Nobody, but in its subtle dissection of psychology and interpersonal relationships.
California Drought Threatens Entire Nation
The way California is currently wasting water — on elaborate lawns in Beverly Hills, on cow death-camps in the San Joaquin Valley, on whatever — it either doesn’t know where its water comes from or simply doesn’t care.
Currency Wars Coming Right Up!
It’s probably not the sexiest battle on Earth, but it is easily one of the most important. With the econopocalypse ravaging what’s left of the American economy and the currency […]
Anthrax + Lobo = Comics Hilarity
Back at it, after a week fighting off a fucked up stomach flu. I sure could have used a murderous lunatic to help me kill it off. Hey, why not […]
Hydrogen Sulfide Is A Nasty Way For Life On Earth to Die
Unfortunately, you can usually find H2S whenever and wherever you’ve got mass extinctions.
Pushing Forward Back
[Viggo Mortensen, Perceval Press] The White House wants to “look forward, not back”. That is the stated reason given (again) by President Obama’s Administration for not wishing to examine evidence […]
Mind the Gap!
Gah! Due to powers beyond my control — including a move, a sickness, a forthcoming book and more clusterfuckery than you can possibly imagine — the Morphizm redesign is going […]