New Orleans Ok, we’re off of vacation now, and making our way back to work to grudgingly greet or growl at a new year. Our teams won or lost and we’re waiting for the playoffs. Winter’s not coming. It’s here! Time to crack back at it again. The President seems to have had a …
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The Circle will be Broken by Boredom: Eggers & 1984
New Orleans I’m not sure that I could be classified as a Dave Eggers fan, but not being that much of a fiction reader, I’ve actually read a good sampling of his books, and I am an admirer of his imagination, his topicality, and his ambition. Of the four Eggers’ books I’ve now read, two …
Poitras and Greenwald Make Me Feel Naïve
New Orleans Reading the New York Times magazine feature by Peter Maass on filmmaker Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald’s interactions with Edward Snowden and the gyrations involved in handling his NSA documents, made me feel naïve and not paranoid exactly, but uncomfortable and almost scared in an oh-my-god-this-is-so-much-worse-than-1984-kinda-way. Of course I had no …