Life and Letters
The Unfinished
David Foster Wallace’s struggle to surpass “Infinite Jest.”
By D. T. Max
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Truck Driver Forced to Show Birth Certificate
Racial profiling may be alive and well according to a
truck driver who was forced to show his birth certificate
when he was having his commercial truck weighed
in Arizona. His commercial license and social security
number were not enough documentation. His wife
had to leave work and return home to get his birth
certificate in order to satisfy them.
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Why Americans Are So Lonely
By Bill McKibben
Access to cheap energy made us rich, wrecked
our climate, and made us the first people on
earth who had no practical need of our neighbors --
that has to change. Continue
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What Really Triggered the Financial Crisis?
The Shadow Banking System Blew Up
By Mike Whitney
Do you understand the root-cause of the financial
crisis? Not many people do, which is why congress'
attempt to regulate the system will probably fail
and there will be another crisis in couple of years.
Continue
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America: The Grim Truth
By Lance Freeman
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Hope is For little Kids and Tooth Fairies
By Joe Bageant
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America Is Losing Its Imperial Status
IMF As Grim Reaper of Austerity?
By Washington's Blog
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There Ain't No Escape From Collapse
By Joe Bageant
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Richard I. Fine's Judicial Lynching. If this can
happen to a renowned lawyer, we're all doomed...!:
http://bit.ly/d0TzOu via @addthis
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Death of 'Caveman' ends an era in Idaho Local News
Idaho: http://digg.com/d31PKSM?t
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Joe, Why Did You Crap Out On Us?:
http://digg.com/d31Omay?
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"Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black" - Tim Wise
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Spies are everywhere. Unbelievable...?
Think again, my friend. You're not paranoid if it's true:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/815.html
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Inside most Americans is a globally brattish child.
Thanks to our endowed natural resources
(since squandered) and to armed national theft
abroad, the American has not suffered enough
to become a responsible adult on the planet. Continue
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Prognosis 2012: Towards a New World Social Order
The capitalist system is past its sell-by date, the
banking elite are well aware of that fact – and
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View: Novelist F. Scott Sinclair on Twitter at:
http://twitter.com/novelistfscott
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Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
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A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
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