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What do you get when you add American slavery, the convict-lease system, the Jim Crow era, and the “War on Drugs”? Give up? You get 150+ years of nearly uninterrupted mistreatment of young, African American men at the hands of businesses, individuals and various governmental agencies in the United States. You get ongoing racial profiling in cities like New York. We in hallowed suburbia who see the brutality…
Folks, this ain’t normal is the eighth book by the self-proclaimed “lunatic farmer” from Swoope, Virginia, Joel Salatin. Salatin, on his Polyface Farms, raises and sells “salad bar beef, pigerator pork, pastured poultry,” turkey, rabbits, eggs and more, has become a living legend in the local/organic food world. His self-published You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farming Enterprise still sells thousands of…
A new long trailer has been released for the soon to be released cinematic musical version of Les Miserables. It looks and sounds fantastic. The primaries appear to be amazing–save Russell Crowe singing–and I am guessing the casting of Sacha Baron Cohen will prove a stroke of genius. Christmas Day. (HT: Steve McCoy)
Just a decade ago, Stephen Spielberg unleashed on cinematic audiences a dystopian future of fear, prediction and the authoritarian state. Minority Report told of a future in which the “Precrime Division” of the police department stopped crimes before they happened, then charged and prosecuted for a crime they never actually committed. The predictions of the crimes are given in video form by mutated humans, called “precogs,” then interpreted…
With the recent controversy over Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathey’s non-remarks about gay marriage, followed by a threatened boycott, then a day of support, then a suggested Kiss-In, public discourse, like water, quickly ran to the lowest point. One of my friends, himself no stranger to stirring the pot, finally was compelled to write on Facebook: To my conservative friends, please stop posting these stupid e-cards about Chick filA,…
