Shahryar Rizvi’s blog
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links for 2010-11-14
5 Internet Life Lessons Parents Need to Start Teaching Kids (tags: internet comedy culture education) Iain Boal: Crisis at Pacifica Capital’s most severe crisis in seventy years ought to be a moment of significant opportunity for the left. But as the right mobilizes disgruntled Americans via its vast radio, television, web, and print empires, the […]
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The Problem With… Katy Perry’s “Firework” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With… Katy Perry's "Firework" – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night. I wanted to add more about plastic bags, but it would have thrown the review off. Those tricky bastards loiter around beaches saying "Hey, seagull! I'm a jellyfish! Eat me!". As soon as it goes in the animal's gullet, they declare "Psyche! […]
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…when good people do nothing — On Slackistan and “Sanity”
I learned a few things from my coverage of the 2009 Tax Day Tea Party rally. Along with providing a preview of the white, middle-class anxiety that was molded by GOP charaltans and corporate funders into a reactionary movement, I also experienced the mood a young observer who ironically derided the motivated-yet-misguided crowd in front […]
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links for 2010-11-09
Akira, American Style Somehow, director Albert Hughes and writer Albert Torres are reportedly going to attempt to turn the original manga – which spotlighted more characters beyond the Tetsuo/Kaneda love/hate relationship, but was by no means more kid-friendly – into two PG-13 movies, with the setting shifting from Neo-Tokyo to “Neo New-York.” That’s like turning […]
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links for 2010-11-07
ThinkProgress » Iranian Nobel Prize-Winning Human Rights Activist: ‘You Should Not Think About’ Military Strikes On Iran In an interview with ThinkProgress, Ebadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 “for her efforts for democracy and human rights,” said an attack on Iran “would give the government an excuse to kill all of […]
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The Problem With… P!nk’s “Raise Your Glass” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With… P!nk’s “Raise Your Glass” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night.
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Last Night: Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation at the Palladium Ballroom – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
Last Night: Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation at the Palladium Ballroom – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night. All in all, it was a great. Massive Attack's cyberpunk, infographic visual display made up for the D's and G's subtlety and darkness. The rock component reminded me of why I started listening to the group. I […]
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links for 2010-10-31
The Fraudulent Case for the Benefits of Wealth Inequality | The Awl Most economists, Bennett contends, would concede that “the degree of wealth equality that the study's respondents identified as ideal would be disastrous, because it would seriously retard growth—sapping incentives to work and innovate, perhaps even requiring coercive measures mandating that the poor save […]
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links for 2010-10-30
Why We Published the Christine O'Donnell Story She has repeatedly chosen, of her own volition, to make it her business to condemn the private sexual behaviors of millions of men and women who believe, or behave, differently than she does. She's of course free to do so. But when it turns out that her own […]
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Halloween 2010 playlist
Ill just leave this youtube playlist here. Happy Haloween, Feliz Dia De Los Muertos, and Remember to Vote. http://www.youtube.com/p/3D06421CF1DAAD56?hl=en_US&fs=1
Got any book recommendations?