Category Archives: Culture

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But American populism has almost always concentrated its anger against the educated rather than the wealthy. So much so that you might describe contemporary American politics as a class struggle between those with more education than money against those with … Continue reading →

from the New York Times A woman who answered the door at Mr. Taylor’s trailer in the Beverly Hills Mobile Home Park in Bristol, Tennessee, said that she was his girlfriend and that they spent a lot of time talking … Continue reading →

…have an affair with Tiger Woods.   I just wanted to make that clear.

They were playing "London Calling" by the Clash in the bank today, and Elvis Costello and Talking Heads in the supermarket — I guess after a certain amount of time capitalism can digest almost anything….

Here’s a pretty funny interview with my old college buddy Eric Gaskins:   http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_870_Eric_Gaskins.mp3/view

I’m reading The Poet Dying: Heinrich Heine’s Last Years in Paris by Ernst Pawel, and there was one sentence in it that so reminded me of my various Ann Arbor antagonists: He embodied everything that Heine despised about the radical … Continue reading →