retro or what… but still gotta wrangle sodium thiosulfate, it seems

Juan Cole nails it: "Americans live in a late capitalist society where the rich have gotten many times richer and the middle class has gotten poorer, where Wall Street bankers have stolen us blind and blamed us for living above our means, where persistent unemployment is worse than in the Great Depression, where most politicians and some judges have been bought by corporations or special interests, where authorities actively conspire to keep people from voting, where the government spies on citizens assiduously without warrant or probable cause, and where the minds of the sheep are kept off their fleecing by substituting celebrity gossip, sex scandals, and half-disguised bigotry for genuine news…"

what can one possibly say?

"…To the extent of having an individual style, any artist is sphexish, trapped within invisible, intangible, but inescapable boundaries of mental space." (Metamagical Themas, by Douglas Hofstadter, 1985)

wonder how soon we'll see anything along these lines in American media?

positively irresistable, but not yet on the market…

"I think we’re failing as a culture, when the only effective way to connect with people is to hand our social (online- and offline) network graphs to a corporation to monetize at will. Our social connections are far too important to trust them to Google, Facebook, Twitter, or the next big shiny thing."

an example to not lose track of

summary of dolorous realities, which I find most persuasive

finding bits of one's former selves, thinking about what to do with them

elegant in concept and execution

What a delightful bit of prose