REAL ART (and politics and culture)

They showed us this film in elementary school back in the 70s.  It's actually pretty freaking excellent.  Check it out. $$$$$$$$$$$...

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From the Houston Chronicle: Forty years ago this Halloween, the Houston area saw perhaps the worst Halloween crime ever to hit the U.S. Pasa...

From AlterNet : What Danish fast food workers have that their American counterparts do not is a powerful union, and fast food franchise owne...

From TruthDig , a new Chris Hedges essay: If the CIA was funneling hundreds of millions of dollars in drugs into inner-city neighborhoods ...

Last Friday's Krugman: So Mr. Leung is worried about the 50 percent of Hong Kong’s population that, he believes, would vote for bad p...

I posted this on facebook Friday: I just voted for Wendy Davis and a bunch of other Democrats. As many of you know, I have some severe pro...

Two of my facebook features exported to Real Art. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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I shared this image on facebook a few days back:   Here's what I wrote to accompany it: Back during the B...

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle: The case was mired in legal battles for years, making it uncertain whether the defendants would eve...

From Think Progress : "The Post and Courier, which originally reported the prosecutors’ position, has been doing a series on domestic v...

From the AP via the Huffington Post: "He told reporters that if the world's response to the Ebola crisis isn't stepped up withi...

From the Guardian via AlterNet : We tend to perceive our identities as stable and largely separate from outside forces. But over decades o...

Two of my facebook features exported to Real Art. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Winkie and Sammy Be sure to check out Modulator 's Friday Ark for more cat blogging pics! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$...

From ProPublica: Young black males in recent years were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their white counterparts – 2...

From a facebook discussion: Okay, so many Libertarian "arguments" being thrown my way that I'm not going to hit every one sp...

From Paul Krugman's blog: The CBO tells us that the federal deficit is way down — under 3 percent of GDP. And Jared Bernstein notes th...

From the Houston Press: Guidry-Stryk's Jane is sleek and equally inscrutable. With her lipstick-red mouth, pale skin, and mane of rav...