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and in this corner….in praise of damnation
The 700 Club. Its a great publicity stunt by Pat Robertson to get attention,to revive the flagging brand, albeit it caves in, craters to the path of least resistance which is Muslim bashing and the scenario of Sam Huntington’s Clash … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Burt Lancaster, Christian Broadcasting Network, Christian Coalition, david rosenberg, Elmer Gantry, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pat Robertson, Pat Robertson 700 Club, rabbi tovia singer, richard brooks, Sam Huntington, Terry Meeuwsen, Tuvya Zaretsky, Upton Sinclair
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down by the river: it ain’t necessarily so
A space with which the undead can talk without moral constraint. Its a de-mythologizing of what is known as Judeo-Christian thought. Mostly disenchanted and without trust in the Covenant nor faith, slightly minimalist and with nihilistic overtones: fatalistic romanticism trampling … Continue reading
we need the pillows : sleeping on “waning skepticism”
From the mouth of Harold Bloom. From his quill to god’s scribe. He represents the archetype of the Gnostic personality. If there is a gnostic personality disorder Bloom is a carrier, transmitter and is chronically infected. Or as he puts … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged artemisia Gentileschi, Caravaggio, Charles Lamb, cima da conegliano, dan geddes, david rosenberg, Dirck Bouts, Giotto di Bordone, Harold Bloom, Jacques Derrida, john collier, jonathan rosen, lawrence Alma-Tadema, pauline pistis, Sam Harris, Wallace Stevens, William Blake
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they won’t let him rest in peace
Not what you call turning the other cheek or noblesse oblige. Call it payback. A little spittle running down the lip after missing the non-existent urn. Or maybe the winds of bad faith blowing back in the face. I hope … Continue reading
perilous exile to zimzum
An inherently tormented and anguished Yahweh in a contradictory and self-absorbed rage over a broken creation. Is it a blasphemous, unhinged, theologically devoid and guilty of moral turpitude theory has our religious experience been as uncanny, intense and extreme as … Continue reading
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Tagged Caravaggio, david rosenberg, David Teniers, garry wills, Gershom Scholem, Harold Bloom, Isaac Luria, jack miles, Jan van Eyck, jan van eyck ghent altarpiece, Jean Leon Gerome, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Nicolas Poussin, Sigmund Freud
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hide and seek: the workingman’s burden
Does it pay never to work a day in the life? Save no money. Have no marketable assets. Yes and no. It does depend on the lifestyle one is accustomed to. It would be pushing “voluntary simplicity” to an extreme … Continue reading
spilling the magic beans
Double dip or double down? A double double? The question is whether we are simply procrastinating on realizing that technology is essentially deflationary and we are accumulating a waiting list of unemployment. President Obama’s dinner with Silicon Valley high tech … Continue reading
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Tagged american economic policy, darcus howe, david rosenberg, dean zerbe forbes, Henry Fonda, Izima Kaoru, James Gillray, John Maynard Keynes, John Steinbeck, Joseph Stiglitz, london riots 2011, martin feldstein, Martin Luther King, melanie pullen photography, milton friedman, Paul Krugman, robert reich, technological unemployment, United States Small Business Act
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