Slate’s Daniel Engber has a nice article up on Slate.com about why we root for underdogs. I have always been fanatical about rooting for the underdog when a team I am not a fan of is playing. I had always…
Stella Duffy. “Payment in kind”
I just finished this short story and thinking about it I am surprised it affected me as much as it does. The premise is simple: husband kills himself and the wife learns about his gambling addiction and huge debts afterward. …
Auster 1997
Cover of Hand to Mouth Tough news to-day: Home Depot is slashing 6000 jobs; Sprint Nextel is cutting 8000 jobs. There are so many job cuts that it is hard to even remember which ones are imagined and which accurate. …
Billboard Liberation Front
Badiou 2008
Alain Badiou. 2008, October 17. Le Monde. partial translation at Infinite Thought. We see, and this is what it means to see, simple things that we’ve known for a long time: capitalism is nothing but robbery, irrational in its essence…