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Me on what Spike Jonze teaches us about him in Her

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My new "Internet Film School" column is up. Sample: Typically, romances rely on a small stable of predictable-but-effective techniques that convince the audience it’s witnessing the first, chemical blush of fresh love. The most basic of these techniques is the two-shot, in which the director places...

Cossacks!

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19th century tool of Russian authoritarianism, meet 21st century Russian anarchist performance art collective: Cossack militia attacked the Pussy Riot punk group with horsewhips on Wednesday as the group tried.

The Worst Person in the World

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David Cameron: David Cameron says he is giving unemployed Britons “new hope and responsibility” by cutting their benefit payments and claims his welfare reforms are part of a “moral mission” for the country. In an article for the Telegraph, the Prime Minister issues a sharp rebuke...

Frackquakes

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The geologically stable state of Oklahoma has experienced over 500 measurable earthquakes in 2014, far and away already a record for the state and it is February. Why? Fracking, duh..

UIC On Strike

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The University of Illinois-Chicago faculty have gone on strike in protest of the corporatization of the university that threatens what faculty do--our ability to teach and research, the stability of our jobs, and the defense of the values of the liberal arts education. Like other universities,...

Law school stuff

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I'm going to be on Al Jazeera America (DirecTV 358 or possibly 347) at 7:30 EST tonight discussing the law school mess. Another guest will be Andrew Post, who graduated from USC's law school at age 21 (he is apparently something of a prodigy as he...
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