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Banksy's New York residency has come to an end: 

In a thrift store for the homeless.

Those with a need to get out should take note,...

 

Result: Respect For Their Elders

The general consensus emerging from my students’ papers is that the Norwegian princess is the leader of a relatively small, world-affirming client cult, associated with a much broader audience cult, that has emerged from the founders’ prior engagement in the cultic milieu and the New Age movement sensu lato – with some roots stretching back to esoteric currents of the 19th century, notably New Thought and the “mind cure”, with hints of spiritualism and Theosophy.

The Reel Life Trajectory (With A Basis In Fact)

Fixed up on a blind date with a handsome but nerdy legal secretary named Tim (Tommy Davidson), Woo is a nasty teasing bundle of free-floating hostility who uses sex as a weapon and gleefully humiliates her date just for the fun of it. Woo has agreed to go out with Tim because her gender-bending astrologer, Celestrial (Girlina), has told her that tonight is the night she will meet her true love.

Liberty

“How does it feel to be white?

How does it feel to move through the world without being accused, for instance, of “shopping while black”? How does it feel to know police officers are there to help you rather than surveil you? How does it feel to have the full range of your experiences represented on the big and small screen? How does it feel to be the dominant race in the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court, almost all 50 governorships, every state legislature in the country and most cities and local governments too?

I imagine that that feels good.”

Principles (And Why The Right Couldn't Ever Win Again)

“If that’s what they wanted, I’d have to hold my nose, I’d have to bite my tongue and they’d probably have to hold a gun to my head, but yeah, if that’s what the citizens of the, if that’s what the constituency wants that elected me, that’s what they elected me for. That’s what a republic is about. You elected a person for your district to do your wants and wishes, not the wants and wishes of a special interest, not his own wants and wishes, yours.”

Those Damned Kids

“All in all, it was a bad week of press for Los Angeles cops. One L.A. police lieutenant was arrested for soliciting a prostitute, and another officer has been temporarily relieved of duty after firing his gun in an effort to scare some kids who were bothering him.”

All That (And Adultery Too)

“Kids aren’t stupid, they really know where to get drugs. I feel it’s easier to get acid or speed, than it is to buy bubblegum at a store because (at a store) you have to wait in line.”

Ignore The Religious/Spiritual Battle Behind The Curtain

As Silicon Valley tech companies boom (with heady talk about paradigm shifts and disruption), the Bay Area's yogis, natural healers, therapists and philosophers want in.

Most People Are The Same & In Exactly The Same Way

Desperately seeking stability and fulfillment through a variety of crackpot therapies and belief systems and riven with insecurities,…

It's Like Benny Hill Being Described As A Lady Catcher

Conservative activists compared Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to Jesus Christ during an event Friday, earning a chorus of amens from the audience of Iowa Republicans.

Who Were They Protecting? And Why? And From What?

TV and movie adaptions weren’t about to make the Lone Ranger an African American who began his career by beating a slave-keeper to death.

Shssh (Coal Black)

Here's the teachable moment for the Illinois State Historical Society: It's time to recognize that African American coal miners, enslaved and indentured, launched the Illinois coal industry -- including the so-called "first coal mine" in 1810 -- and when the state of Illinois ratified its constitution in 1818, a largely overlooked loophole allowed for legal slavery in the crucial tax-revenue-generating salt works, generated by coal mines, in the out-of-sight Shawnee Forests of southern Illinois.

Voices

Police officers who responded to a call about an Oklahoma City man with a bloody face thrashing around his apartment arrived to find 22-year-old Jeremy Jarnell Anderson covered in soap and salt and ranting about a "possessed homosexual demon" who ordered him to "cook the Bible."