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by artappraiser 4/10/2013 - 4:02 am

When nuns puked nails
by Josephine Livingstone, Prospect blog, April 5, 2013
{a review of Brian Levack’s new history of demonic possession in the Christian West, "The Devil Within" (Yale, £25)]

VS.

The D.S.M. and the Nature of Disease
by Gary Greenberg, Elements @ newyorker.com, April 9, 2013
[Gary Greenberg’s new book, “The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry,” will be published in May] [Read more]

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China has had more school massacres by 'rampage killers' than the U.S.?

by artappraiser 2/22/2013 - 4:10 pm

That's what this Wikipedia chart says:

List of rampage killers: School massacres

It's interactive, you can have the chart sort by any of the headings. If you click on "Country," it will sort alphabetically by country.

I count

21 incidents in China from  occurring 1995 through 2012

and

17 incidents in the U.S. occurring from 1927 (yes, that's 1927 ) through 2012. [Read more]

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Geezers rock!

by artappraiser 11/26/2012 - 1:35 pm

Despite some engaging guest performances including the much-reported reunions with former bandmates Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor, the core quartet didn't hit top speed until the show's second half. When they did, they were untouchable.

-Paul Sexton @ Billboard.com, November 26, 2012

As Danny and The Juniors foretold in 1958:

 

 

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"Saltz’s Devastating Tour Through Chelsea’s Ruined Art Galleries"

by artappraiser 11/3/2012 - 1:36 am

By Jerry Saltz, nymag.com, Nov. 1, 2012

Excerpt:

Many ridicule Chelsea galleries as flesh-eating pariahs. I think they're part of our life blood, the collective organism that in many ways makes New York one of the most thriving centers for art on earth. These ridiculed and reviled galleries are places you can go for free, run by strange people with visions who want to help artists by showing and selling their work. It's become an international pastime to attack these galleries simply for being what they are: large and commercial. I love them. All. More than ever. [Read more]

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Dueling Israelis

by artappraiser 9/27/2012 - 4:12 pm

A news post that I can't put in the news section because it requires both links to be given equal attention. These two stories are both atop the New York Times website right now: [Read more]

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Christopher Walken on Seven Psychopaths, His Days as a Lion Tamer, and the One Role He's Still Searching For

by artappraiser 9/10/2012 - 1:37 pm

By Julie Miller at Vanity Fair, September 10, 2012

Excerpt:

What kind of character haven't you played that you'd still like to try?

I haven't played a regular guy. You know, a dad with kids. But I'm not sure I'll ever get that part.

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A Libertarian House on the Prairie

by artappraiser 8/20/2012 - 4:32 pm

By Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, August 17, 2012

[....] [Laura Ingalls] Wilder’s books were written in collaboration with her only child, Rose Wilder Lane, a best-selling author in her own right. The extent of that collaboration is disputed—some critics have called Rose Laura’s “ghostwriter.” The evidence suggests that, at the least, Lane edited and shaped the manuscripts considerably, and thought of her mother as an amateur [....] [Read more]

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News of the long slow lingering death of NYC's Democratic machine

by artappraiser 7/26/2012 - 9:42 pm

Just a news compilation thread for my own reference, perhaps to update from time to time

First news item:

Councilman, Convicted of Fraud, Vacates Seat
By Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, July 26/27, 2012

City Councilman Larry B. Seabrook, a mainstay of Bronx politics for nearly three decades, was convicted on Thursday of orchestrating a broad corruption scheme to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars in city money to his relatives, friends and a girlfriend through a network of nonprofit organizations that he controlled. [Read more]

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"Unprotected"

by artappraiser 7/23/2012 - 9:26 pm

by Simon Rich:

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2012/07/30/120730sh_shouts_rich

 

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It appears that the TPMCafe site has been taken down from the web?

by artappraiser 6/17/2012 - 3:56 am

Trying to go to its url (tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com) now automatically redirects you to the the Talking Points Memo home page (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/)

Did anyone notice a public announcement that this was going to happen? Just curious.

I tried a few keyword searches on Google that would normally turn up lots of posts from TPMCafe's archive pages, and those seemed to be gone, too, overwritten.. (I.E.: It used to be that if you put Rosenberg Israel TPMCafe into Google, you would get back a lot of links to his posts there. Now, you get none at all.) [Read more]

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