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In an Unequal World, Mocking All Serves the Powerful – NYTimes.com
In an Unequal World, Mocking All Serves the Powerful – NYTimes.com thaumatropia: The fact is, we self-censor and select the targets of our satire based on our worldviews – and those worldviews are influenced profoundly by being male or female, black or white, American or Iraqi, Muslim or Christian. Our identities and lived experiences have…
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British Journalist Thinks The World Owes Latin America an Apology for the So-Called ‘War on Drugs’ · Global Voices In this story, published in two parts, Estefanía Sepúlveda Portilla interviews British journalist Johann Hari. They discuss and deconstruct the “War on Drugs” and its origins. Source: British Journalist Thinks The World Owes Latin America an Apology…
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Winter rains could lead to spectacular floral display at California poppy reserve – SFGate
Winter rains could lead to spectacular floral display at California poppy reserve – SFGate The winter rains could trigger a poppy explosion in the California desert this spring. Source: Winter rains could lead to spectacular floral display at California poppy reserve – SFGate shared without comment. seeds of solitude. sow/reap. View On WordPress
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Great philosophers are great stylists too. Style in philosophy is the movement of concepts. This movement’s only present, of course, in the sentences, but the sole point of the sentences is to give it a life, a life of its own. Style is a set of variations in language, a modulation, and a straining of…