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We're reading Michael Taussig's ubiquitous essay on the "Space of Death" this morning in my introductory social science seminar, and in the course of trying to find something interesting to launch the discussion, I happened up this brief New Yorker piece about Taussig's apocalypse seminar...

Neo-Confederacy of Dunces

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On February 21, 2011

Well, some people will celebrate anything: Wearing gray wool uniforms, hoop skirts, leather jackets and business suits, several hundred men and women marched to the Alabama Statehouse on Saturday afternoon,.

Zombie Dick Cheney Update

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On January 4, 2011
In what can only be described as a dubious victory for Medicare, Dick Cheney's pulseless, mechanically-assisted heart -- which I wrote about in greater detail last year -- has evidently allowed him to resume "his old life, including hunting and socializing." And then there's this:...

The End of Education

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On December 18, 2010
...in which I emerge briefly from the end-of-semester grading abattoir to note that I have detected a student plagiarizing from Conservapedia. I'm now going to go roust a bear from hibernation and make him eat my kidneys.
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