by Pier Marton | Jan 14, 2011 | Antisemitism, Death, Hispanic, Human Rights, Jewish, Media, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Spectacle, Women
Jewish Funds for Justice’s website Glenn Beck’s Ten Worst Quotes of 2010: “God will wash this nation with blood if he has to.” (August 25, 2010) Putting “the common good” first “leads to death camps.” (May 28, 2010) “Women are psychos” (January 20, 2010) Beck’s...
by Pier Marton | Jan 13, 2011 | Death, Future Tech, Human Rights, Politics
From the Oregon farm boy who was given a .22 rifle on his 12th birthday… A major health issue (toys ARE regulated): “Just since the killings in Tucson, another 320 or so Americans have been killed by guns — anonymously, with barely a whisker of attention....
by Pier Marton | Jan 12, 2011 | Art, Galleries, History, Ideas, Objects, Politics, Site, Spectacle, Time
In Los Angeles. Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Jan 12, 2011 | Antisemitism, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Wars
From the founder of Esperanto, an ophthalmologist of great vision: “I am profoundly convinced that every nationalism offers humanity only the greatest unhappiness… It is true that the nationalism of oppressed peoples — as a natural self-defensive...
by Pier Marton | Jan 12, 2011 | Death, Human Rights, Media, Politics, Spectacle, Wars, Women
From a Canadian friend: about “Hate Crimes.” From the NYTimes’ Bob Herbert: “I remember having lunch with Marian Wright Edelman, the president of the Children’s Defense Fund, a few days after the Virginia Tech tragedy. She shook her head at the...
by Pier Marton | Jan 11, 2011 | Art, Film, History, Humor, Jewish, Politics, Shoah, Time
by Pauline Kael: “Siegfried Kracauer is the sort of man who can’t say ‘It’s a lovely day’ without first establishing that it is day, that the term “day” is meaningless without the dialectical concept of ‘night,’...