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Historical morality and obstacles to carbon regulation

I think Americans are so exasperated by healthcare reform as to ignore or be unaffected by the recent happenings in Copenhagen. To recapitulate, world leaders gathered there to try and hammer out some kind of consensus about how to deal with global warming. Barack Obama definitely came out the loser, with no deal and a [...]
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beat girl

Opening credits to Beat Girl (1959), directed by Edmond Gréville:
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sorry, okay.

Yeah, I’ve got two jobs now. This whole writing thing’s going to have to sit in the back while I make some money. Here’s a taj mahal video:
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marked ‘discard’

To situate ourselves, The Eleatic stranger is the dialogue’s main interlocutor. Before saying exactly what statesmanship consists in, he recounts the myth of the time of Kronos, when “the god himself assists the universe on its way and helps it in its rotation.” (269d) In this prelapsarian world, the god ruled humans and there was no [...]
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Tony Oursler – “Cell Phones Diagrams Cigarettes Searches and Scratch Cards”

I checked out a few galleries in Chelsea this past saturday. 24th was clotted with the white plexiglass vans and panelling which accompany movie sets everywhere they go. Fortunately the movie crew had given every gallery on the street a table of doughnuts, coffee, champagne and fruit: I was pleasantly drunk and had defeated the [...]
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