Photographer Walker Evans collected picture postcards, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art is exhibiting them. Here’s one: Evidently Calvin Trillin reads Los Thunderlads. Here’s the first half of this week’s doggerel: Republicans had hoped they might rekindle Their party’s prospects through one Bobby Jindal. But Jindal proved an easy man to mock (He’s like the [...]
All posts tagged inequality
The Nation, 23 March 2009
Posted by acilius on March 9, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/03/09/the-nation-23-march-2009/
Sad news for ViewMaster fans
(image) News in the latest email from Las Vegas’ 3D Stereo Store: View-Master Closing: On a sad note, Mattel/Fisher-Price has announced the permanent closing of the Custom/Commercial/Scenic View-Master division of View-Master. Scenic reels and the Classic Model L will cease to exist. All of the special special 3 Reel sets such as Old TIme Cars, and [...]
Posted by acilius on November 25, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/11/25/sad-news-for-viewmaster-fans/
The Nation, 1 December 2008
Nick Turse looks into American forces’ conduct of the war in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta in the period from 1 December 1968 to 1 April 1969. Turse concludes that the facts were much worse than has generally been known in the USA. Civilians were targeted more systematically than has been acknowledged, more of them were killed than has [...]
Posted by acilius on November 24, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/11/24/the-nation-1-december-2008/
This June’s Issues of The Nation
It’s been a few months since any “Periodicals Notes” have gone up here about The Nation. In part that’s because it’s so topical that there aren’t many articles in each issue that I think I’ll want to have notes about, in part because I’ve been busy and have been slacking on “Periodicals Notes” generally, and [...]
Posted by acilius on September 22, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/22/this-junes-issues-of-the-nation/
Chronicles, April 2008
One of the preoccupations of this ultra-ultra-right wing publication is the value of distinctions among people- class distinctions, ethnic distinctions, gender distinctions, etc. Most of its contributors are firmly convinced that the great trouble with the current age is that such distinctions are being elided. They say that what they dread is not equality- that [...]
Posted by acilius on March 22, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/03/22/chronicles-april-2008/
The Nation, 31 March 2008
Alex Cockburn’s column treats the NY Governor prostitution scandal, characterizing Spitzer’s behavior as “various rendezvous with consenting adults.” I suppose I should familiarize myself with scholarship like that of somebody’s mother, but it strikes me that this phrase doesn’t capture what goes on with prostitution- mutual consent means that both parties consent to the same thing. When men like Spitzer [...]
Posted by acilius on March 19, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/03/19/the-nation-31-march-2008/
Chronicles (four issues)
My subscription to this ultra-ultra conservative publication ran out a couple of years ago, but they keep sending it to me nonetheless. I suppose they really mean it when they say they believe in tradition. November 2007: Gregory McNamee remembers his friend Edward Abbey, alternately acknowledging his faults (“Was he a racist? Undoubtedly, at least after [...]
Posted by acilius on March 16, 2008
http://losthunderlads.com/2008/03/16/chronicles-four-issues/
The Atlantic Monthly, October 2007
For some time I’ve been thinking I ought to take notes when I read magazines. Not very extensive or systematic notes, just a few jottings of things I might want to remember. To motivate myself to start doing this, I’ve decided to post these jottings on the blog. Here’s are my notes on the current [...]
Posted by acilius on September 26, 2007
http://losthunderlads.com/2007/09/26/the-atlantic-monthly-october-2007/
-
Who writes this?
losthunderlads
vthunderlad
lefalcon
acilius
believer1
