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• Orphan Black - I Am a Mother Now and Walk a Different Path.

  Orphan Black: 3x09 Insolvent Phantom of Tomorrow.It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old,... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black - You Can’t Crush the Human Spirit.

  Orphan Black: 3x08 Ruthless in Purpose, and Insidious in Method.There is a different side to the idea of extending your definition of family and making your... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 11/6/15

  Politics: Edward Snowden with an op-ed for the NY Times in the wake of the USA Freedom Act: Privately, there were moments when I worried that we might have put... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The 'Pretty Little Liars' Will Grow Stronger in the Broken Places

  The Liars escaped the doll house, but in a way, that only worked as a reminder that it was only a metaphor for what their lives have been like this whole time. Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black - You’re with Family Now.

  

  Orphan Black: 3x07 Community of Dreadful Fear and Hate.I will not make boundaries my agenda. Instead I would … I would… family. That’s my agenda.Sometimes famil... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Appetite for Ruin Imagery

  The metaphor of nature reclaiming the city, whether used in negative or redemptive terms, neutralizes the actual processes that have had such a destructive... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 4/6/15

  Politics:The war on terror, that campaign without end launched 14 years ago by George Bush, is tying itself up in ever more grotesque contortions. Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: May.

  Non-Fiction: Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow. Grégoire Chamayou: A Theory of the Drone.Fiction:Beth Goobie: Hello, Groin.Emily St. John Mandel: Station... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orange is the New Black - I Don’t Have Anyone Left.

  

  Orange is the New Black: 2x13 We Have Manners. We're Polite.One way to see this season of Orange is the New Black is as a stage play. Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black - After That, the Science Took a Turn.

  Orphan Black: 3x06 Certain Agony of the Battlefield.Sarah: I miss you.Beth: You don’t get to miss me, Sarah. I won’t accept that.Sarah: I’m trying to finish wha... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Rules

  Here’s another one from the book: “Don’t Expect a Man to Change.”I’d reinvent that one to DON’T EXPECT THE INDUSTRY TO CHANGE. Guys are holding on so tightly... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black – We Can’t Fight Them Alone.

  

  Orphan Black: 3x05 Scarred by Many Past Frustrations.Down the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orange is the New Black - Stop Making Things So Hard for Yourself.

  Orange is the New Black: 2x12 It Was the Change.In a classical theatrical mise-en-scène, a storm over Litchfield provides the atmosphere for everything falling... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black – They’d Do Anything to Find a Cure.

  

  Orphan Black: 3x04 Newer Elements of Our Defense.Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Good Wife - My Time with You, as Your Friend, Was the Best I Ever Had.

  

  “I wanna win. I wanna beat my opponent. You wouldn’t even blink if a man had said that.”In the sixth season of The Good Wife, Alicia Florrick ran for the... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The 100

  is two things. One, a show that eloquently and brutally tells a tale of survival in a world that has discarded any pretence that survival is anything but a... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 13/5/15

  Politics: A US court recently ruled that the collection of metadata by the NSA was unlawful, relying heavily on material that was obtained by and released with... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orange is the New Black – What Do I Have to Lose?

  Orange is the New Black: 2x11 Take A Break From Your Values.Part of the special nature of Orange is the New Black as a show that gets released all at once is ho... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black – You’re Just as Fierce as She Was.

  Orphan Black: 3x03 Formalized, Complex, and Costly.Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 7/5/15

  Politics: The Onion summarizes. Hillary Clinton is talking about race and justice and addresses incarceration rates: "It’s time to change the era of mass... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO