http://swans.com/ Swans Commentary - As always, please form your OWN opinion, and let your friends (and foes) know about Swans. en Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:55:09 GMT 012345678911121314151617181920212223 1 daily 1970-01-01T10:00+00:00 1440 sburke@cpan.org http://interglacial.com/d/about_rss/1day#_yes_this_means_YOU http://interglacial.com/rss/swans.rss http://interglacial.com/rss/swans.pl swanscomm http://swans.com/library/art16/mdolin52.html A Short History Of Stupidity - Part 2  ·  by Michael Doliner  ·  In part two of Michael Doliner's Short History of Stupidity, he examines the Jacobian revolution, the transfer of power from aristocracy to the bourgeoisie, the latter's resulting monomaniacal quest for money-making, and the perpetual lies and enormous bad conscience at the heart of bourgeois life. http://swans.com/library/art16/barker44.html Buying Freedom For Africa  ·  by Michael Barker  ·  Critique of the African National Congress and George Ayittey's Free Africa Foundation. http://swans.com/library/art16/desk097.html Blips #97  ·  by Gilles d'Aymery  ·  A few selected issues that landed on the Editor's desk, from failing banks and the FDIC's Sheila Bair's bullish lies, damned lies, faulty statistics; the armed, anti-government, quasi-lobotomized congregations of Paulistas, Palinistas, Tea Baggers and the flailing Left that would otherwise align with them; to why Keli Carender has it wrong and charity isn't the answer; to what just might be, and more. http://swans.com/library/art16/femia31.html President "SEX MACHINE" Zuma's Virile Libido  ·  by Femi Akomolafe  ·  Femi Akomolafe presents a humorous debate on who is the better or worse president, South Africa's virile Jacob Zuma, or Nigeria's AWOL Umaru Yar'Adua. http://swans.com/library/art16/pbyrne121.html Orientalism In London  ·  by Peter Byrne  ·  On Orientalism and Charles Saatchi's move from manipulation of the public to manipulation of artists. http://swans.com/library/art16/cmarow160.html James Cameron's Avatar  ·  by Charles Marowitz  ·  In the technological evolution of film innovation, the blockbuster movie Avatar presents an incredulous narrative, is brutal and rollickingly violent, and damnably clever -- but so what? http://swans.com/library/art16/hewhit03.html The Jukebox Blues  ·  by Harvey E. Whitney, Jr.  ·  This article discusses controls on consumer choice through digital jukeboxes prominent in bars and restaurants in the USA. http://swans.com/library/art16/cspada02.html The Lily Suicides  ·  by Christine Spadaccini  ·  A poignant short story on suicide by lily, the ravages of Alzheimer's disease, and the plight of political refugees in France and those who are punished trying to help them. http://swans.com/library/art16/saslav17.html Ruminations On Rusalka, The Ring, Cyrano, And Shreker - Part I  ·  by Isidor Saslav  ·  Part One of a potpourri of operatic observations. http://swans.com/library/art16/gmonte86.html War (Paix Pace Peace Paz)  ·  by Guido Monte Picture by Guido Monte  ·  Saieva, Monte, and his students try to blend verses about war and peace. http://swans.com/library/art16/murie87.html Barbara Ehrenreich's Dancing In The Streets  ·  by Martin Murie  ·  A brief review of Barbara Ehrenriech's Dancing In The Streets, with a reminder to get some sociality into our restricted lives. http://swans.com/library/art16/letter186.html Letters  ·  Dave Patterson's new anti-capitalist book Greenways as an antidote to Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged; our tax dollars at work in alleged trespassing deer hunter Bo Keely's mistaken identity ordeal in the California justice system; and the collection of Kenneth Rexroth's columns republished by the Bureau of Public Secrets.