An article about brain parasites that breed in cats and spread to creatures, possibly including humans, that then become unreasonably attracted to cats appeared in the March 2012 issue of The Atlantic. The article triggered vast amounts of comment around the web; I’ll just mention that it appeared at about the same time Gregory Cochran [...]
All posts tagged 9/11
Deep in the brain
Posted by acilius on March 3, 2012
http://losthunderlads.com/2012/03/03/deep-in-the-brain/
Martin Espada reads “Alabanza”
Posted by acilius on September 11, 2011
http://losthunderlads.com/2011/09/11/martin-espada-reads-alabanza/
The triumph of civil society
Rebecca Solnit on “How 9/11 should be remembered.” Some key paragraphs: New Yorkers triumphed on that day eight years ago. They triumphed in calm, in strength, in generosity, in improvisation, in kindness. Nor was this something specific to that time or place: San Franciscans during the great earthquake of 1906, Londoners during the Blitz in World [...]
Posted by acilius on September 11, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/09/11/the-triumph-of-civil-society/
Eight years of one day
Eight years ago today some Tom Waits songs started running through my head. “Yesterday is Here” seemed very timely; “today’s grey skies, tomorrow is tears,/ you’ll have to wait til yesterday is here.” That song is on the album Frank’s Wild Years; several times in those days I set my CD player to play two [...]
Posted by acilius on September 11, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/09/11/eight-years-of-one-day/
Victoria Fontan
Victoria Fontan in Baghdad The 16-31 March issue of Counterpunch features an article by Victoria Fontan, a scholar in “Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies,” a growing subfield of Peace Studies. Fontan studies conditions under which people who have been humiliated are more likely than others to become terrorists. She has interviewed members of several violent groups in Lebanon and Iraq. In this article, [...]
Posted by acilius on April 16, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/04/16/victoria-fontan/
The Nation, 22 December 2008
It’s usually the reviews that feature most prominently in my notes about The Nation. That’s because the notes are about things I might want to look up again, and The Nation‘s articles and columns are usually of strictly timely interest. This week’s issue is no exception. In this issue, Arthur Danto reviews a retrospective of Giorgio Morandi‘s [...]
Posted by acilius on December 10, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/12/10/the-nation-22-december-2008/
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