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’11 SLIFF BUZZ: The Hammer/Hamill – the movie

by Pier Marton | Aug 25, 2011 | Care, Film, Health, Human Rights, Jewish, Politics, Quotes, Sound, Sounds, STL

A short review: Based on real events (Matt Hamill a.k.a. The Hammer)… An irresistible grandfather guides his grandson – you’ve got to wrestle with life (à la Jacob?): “If you don’t believe in yourself, I am not going to… Why do you...

Criminal Language: “Roadkill/Collateral Damage/Trash”

by Pier Marton | Aug 25, 2011 | Afri, Antisemitism, Art, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Ego, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Juif, Media, Middle-East, Now, Objects, Politics, Quotes, Roma, Shoah, Spectacle, Theater, Wars, Women

For more about escaping language/words: the Dictionary of Imploded Meanings. If you think the system is working, ask someone who isn’t or who was stopped “dead in his tracks.” An excerpt from Beyond Belief (Against the Weapons of Mass Distraction):...

David Servan-Schreiber: 1961-2011

by Pier Marton | Aug 20, 2011 | Books, Care, Death, Eco, Food, France, Health, Ideas, Idées

His last text/book: “We Can Tell Each Other Goodbye Several Times.” The first question raised by my state of health: “does my relapse damages the credibility of the anticancer method?“, I answer categorically not. Firstly because I am not a scientific...

Use Your Head & Keep your Life & your Head = Helmets + Visibility

by Pier Marton | Aug 20, 2011 | Care, Death, Eco, Health, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Objects, Sci/Nat, Sights, Travel

Having had many close call encounters both on a bicycle and in a car, I am NOT afraid to look like a Xmas tree while biking. Having met someone with a hole in his head and his speech impaired because, the one day his car was in the garage, he rode to work on his bike...

Inequality (and Irrationality) in the Face

by Pier Marton | Aug 18, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Care, Death, Food, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Middle-East, Now, Politics, Quotes, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Wars, Women

If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists. Cecil Rhodes 1895 Land of the free, home of the poor on the PBS Newshour. Summary: Financial gains over the last decade in the United States have been mostly made at the “tippy-top” of the...