January 2012
7 posts
SOPA: A Bad Solution to a Very Real Problem
But even as we celebrate the declining congressional support for these bills, we shouldn’t forget that this isn’t simply a fight about the future of free speech; it’s also a battle about whether the financial interests of the new media will triumph over those of the old media. And, if they do, it’s not clear that the public interest will always be served. As the protest song that sprang up this...
“Taking trains and trams in Berlin, I noticed: people reading. Books, I mean, not...”
– Joshua Cohen, My Berlin Airlift - NYTimes.com (via housingworksbookstore)
Three line poems from the NYPD police blotter.
laphamsquarterly:
Why didn’t we think of this? WHY?
michellelegro:
“At 4 a.m. on an Upper East Side subway platform, a stare-down between two men was being held. One blinked, and Joseph Owens, 32, attacked.”
Félix Fenéon, meet @neofeneon: Three line poems from the NYPD police blotter.
