Writing worth Reading

[Faust]

How US police routinely engages in highway robbery... literally. The most mind-blowing thing I have read in a long time. It's beyond appalling.

[Faust]

"The drama issues from the assailability of vital, tenacious men with their share of peculiarities who are neither mired in weakness nor made of stone and who, almost inevitably, are bowed by blurred moral vision, real and imaginary culpability, conflicting allegiances, urgent desires, uncontrollable longings, unworkable love, the culprit passion, the erotic trance, rage, self-*division, betrayal, drastic loss, vestiges of innocence, fits of bitterness, lunatic entanglements, consequential misjudgment, understanding overwhelmed, protracted pain, false accusation, unremitting strife, illness, exhaustion, estrangement, derangement, aging, dying and, repeatedly, inescapable harm, the rude touch of the terrible surprise — unshrinking men stunned by the life one is defenseless against, including especially history: the unforeseen that is constantly recurring as the current moment."

An Interview with Philip Roth

[Magic1]

Thanks for the New Yorker article, Faust.

Check out this disturbing study:

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2013/02/04/pay-rent-or-face-arrest

[Faust]

/\ Is this insane or what? Wild Wild West, alive and kicking.

[galia]

This made me realize that I know quite a few people like this ahah

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/arch...rom-manhattan/

[Faust]

What is the Little Prince about?

[Magic1]

thanks galia. I like that.

[Faust]

The Paradox of art as work.

http://nyti.ms/1kYBDu3

[LelandJ]

Here's a couple previously unknown artists, naturally poor, who were featured for the first time a month ago. I've known "Last Kind Words Blues" for a couple years as posted in the listening thread but just learned of this article yesterday.

Even if you don't care about blues the story of the author's discovery is phenomenal as are the uncovered details of the artists:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/13/magazine/blues.html?_r=2

These lyrics and ease of singing are chilling:

I’m gonna cut your throat, baby,
Gonna look down in your face.
I’m gonna let some lonesome graveyard
Be your resting place.

[Faust]

The entrepreneur delusion

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2014/05/19/140519ta_talk_surowiecki

[Faust]

Are today's liberal students a bunch of pussies?

Was Lasch right all along?

[galia]

of course he was. this whole attitude is just aiming at erasing discomfort from reality, not addressing the tough issues and making the world a better place. I can't express how much I think all this sucks

[Faust]

I couldn't agree more.

[Faust]

Probably the best article on what's wrong with American education.

[Faust]

Anyone else care to contribute to this thread, or do you not read?

One of the best, impassioned op-Ed's on sources of American inequality.

http://nyti.ms/1qRBiks