So brightly blisters the great regurgitating ribbon of the Thames. Sculls skim through like springtime swallows. Keels kiss tidal scum, lancing the stolen sun — boils or bops to a stop, as in The bee on wheels has laments on a stick Wags weepy banners with gypsy ribbons … The tiny wheeled bee has the […]
Archives for September 2016
‘Street Gangs of the Lower East Side’
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It’s rare that the tireless staff of thousands agrees to post a guest review. But there are exceptions. Review by Jerome Sala The Street Gangs of the Lower East Side offers a provocative eyewitness history of gang culture in the context of the whole diverse, eccentric and sometimes revolutionary LES scene of the ’70s through […]
The Evil Wind
It was a year ago today. But they soldier on. Alles wandelt sich. Neu beginnen Kannst du mit dem letzten Atemzug. Aber was geschehen, ist geschehen. Und das Wasser Das du in den Wein gossest, kannst du Nicht mehr herausschütten. Was geschehen, ist geschehen. Das Wasser Das du in den Wein gossest, kannst du Nicht […]
In Case Facebook Is Watching
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AP Photographer Nick Ut’s famous Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnam War photo illustrating the terror of war was censored for nudity by Mark Zukerberg’s minions. Facebook deigned to restore the image to its site, but did not apologize. It issued instead a boilerplate claim that the image could have been mistaken for kiddie porn in some countries, […]
Leonard Weinglass, Our ‘Modern Clarence Darrow’
Other defense attorneys may have been more famous — William Kunstler, for example — but radical leftists of a certain age remember the late Leonard Weinglass with special feeling. On the back cover of Seth Tobocman’s graphic biography Len, A Lawyer in History, the publisher’s description says (and I believe every word of it): “In […]